Skin Care Tips, Notes & More

Skin problems can run from just dried skin, to acne or blemishes up to eczema. Depending on the type of skin you have and the problem, you will need to treat your skin with some sort of lotion or medication if you want to cure your acne or treat your skin care problem. The first think to do is determine if you have acne, dry skin, or eczema. You can not treat these conditions the same way. If you do, you might make your skin care problem even worse. lets first discuss eczema.

Acne Skin Care

Dermatitis or Eczema is a skin condition suffered by many and is noticeable by areas of inflamed and usually itchy skin. There are a number of ways to treat eczema but the use of eczema creams, lotions and emollients are the most common.

Eczema affected areas of the skin are normally dry and need to have the natural moisture replaced with the help of Eczema creams and lotions. Eczema self-care is a crucial part of controlling the condition and moisturizing is an area that does not require help. The removal of natural body oils will exacerbate the Eczema condition so anything that does this should be stopped straight away. The use of skin moisturizers or emollients involves only using thinner ointments on areas of the skin that are not flaking or dry. Light emollients like aqueous cream may dry the skin if it is very flaky, so heavier ointment should be used.

Cure Acne

To help stop the skin becoming dry, emollients replace any lost moisture and formulated oils and creams can be used for washing. There are other skin cleansing products that can then be used to help moisten the skin after bathing such as Dipobase for example. Ointments such as Epaderm and Sebexol work in the same way as Eucerin lotion, to help ease the desire to itch the afflicted skin. Although eczema creams work ok, they are not as effective as emollients which do not need continual re-application. The fewer applications that have to be made, the less the skin is touched and this is where the ointments win over the creams because they have less water in the product which means it takes the skin longer to absorb them.

A Cure for Acne

For mild-moderate eczema a weak steroid may be used like Hydrocortisone or Desonide, while more severe cases require a higher-potency steroid (e. As there is no cure for eczema, controlling the symptoms is about the best you can hope to expect and corticosteroids are well adapted for this use. Corticosteroids must be used sparingly to avoid possible side effects, the most common of which is that their prolonged use can cause the skin to thin and become fragile. To make sure that damage is not done to the face and other fragile skin, only low strength ointments can be used on these areas. In the long term the eczema sufferer should be warned to use the steroid creams or ointments only when they have to. Despite their use and success rate, steroid creams and ointments should only be used sparingly and stopped once the desire result has been achieved. So short to medium term use of corticosteroids does not do any damage or cause any side-effects different from those when using ointment that was not steroid based.

Recently, the use of demodulators has been increased to treat the areas of skin affected by eczema with varying degrees of success.

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