My eldest son has suffered from eczema off and on for his entire childhood. He recently had a flare up despite his usual krill oil, vitamin and mineral supplement routine. I hadn’t changed our washing powder, he hadn’t changed soap personal care products, hasn’t changed his diet, it was just an unexplained flare up. Boo. I figured it was the perfect time to try something new and the opportunity to review the Hope’s Relief products came at exactly the right time.
Being a herbalist, I am well familiar with what a real herbal cream should look and feel like. The first thing I noticed about the Hope’s Relief cream was that it felt and smelt just like a cream I’d make up in my clinic. It has that herby brown look to it which tells me it really does contain therapeutic amounts of quality herbal extracts. It smelt really herby too. No stinky artificial smells, just therapeutic herby goodness.
The problem I’ve had with some of the herbal creams I have made up for my biggest boy is that the base I use is quite thick and it sticks to his clothes and takes a long time to penetrate the skin. The Hope’s Relief cream is a perfect consistency and gets into the skin quickly without leaving a greasy residue.
Within 24 hours of starting the cream, Mr Biggest Boy had stopped telling me his eczema was itchy or hurting. Within a week I noticed that I was only having to apply the cream to two patches on his back. The smaller patches on his tummy, arms and legs had disappeared. The 2 patches on his back were markedly better. They were now mostly just dry, not red and angry looking. Certainly not cracked and bleeding like they had been before we started.
The other product that came with the cream was the Hope’s Relief cleansing bar. Mr Biggest Boy doesn’t use soap at all because even the most natural unscented soaps tend to cause a flare up in symptoms. I got him to start using the cleansing bar and it hasn’t caused any problems. The cleaning bar is better than his usual no soap routine because because water alone can be quite drying to the skin. The bar contains aloe vera, calendula and manuka honey which makes it healing, moisturising and antimicrobial. It’s the perfect product to use in combination with the cream.
Hope’s Relief has given me a cream and a cleansing bar to give away to a Natural Transition family. To gain entries to the giveaway, you need to comment on this post. I’d love to know what you’ve tried to treat eczema, what’s work or not worked for you. You can earn extra entries by liking the Hope’s Relief facebook page and by sharing this comp on facebook or twitter. When you comment on this post be sure to let me know what you’ve done to get your entries. I’ll draw the winner on December 5 at 5pm.
Update- The winner is Kerry 🙂 Here’s hoping your little one finds it as good as my son has.
What haven’t I tried on miss Freya. She has such bad flare ups and so far we have not managed to find anything that really works. We have tried herbal creams, chemist creams and everything else in between (but not this one) 🙂
Poor little possum. It’s so hard for such a little one to have to deal with. I’ll try and find some time to post my natural therapies guide to dealing with eczema over the next few days. But Hope’s Relief is a great place to start with topical treatments.
I have tried a lot of things. Hydrocortisone used to be my fail safe option, but now that I have developed a reaction to it, I can no longer use it. I have tried vitamin e oil, coconut oil, vitamin a ointment (which works but the smell makes me want to stick my head in a sewer drain for fresh air), manuka honey 20+ (which again, worked but made me a sticky mess). I have also tried ingesting fish oil, a probiotic, vitamins a and e…
I have only recently discovered Hope’s Relief. I wish I had used it before all the other things! I am suffering an outbreak now (for over two long, painful months) and for the past week I have been using Hope’s Relief healing cream. My skin is FINALLY beginning to heal! I would love to try the soap, as I’m now too scared to use anything on my body. I might actually go out and get the shampoo & conditioner too, because I have suffered a flaky scalp all my teen & adult life and it sounds a lot more gentle than what I’m currently using (selsun gold).
I have liked the Hope’s Relief Facebook page (Rin B*th) and tweeted about this giveaway. The link is here: https://twitter.com/#!/MakeupDownUnder/status/140932327533576192
I am glad that neither of my sons suffer the same skin condition as me, because I find it extremely irritating so would hate for my kids to experience it too. I am glad your son is healing! Unexplained flair ups are the worst 🙁
*fingers crossed* 🙂
I’m glad you found Hope’s Relief and that it’s going so well. Thanks so much for sharing the comp and good luck with the giveaway!
psoriasis
I don’t have eczema but do suffer from psoriasis on my scalp and have recently discovered “Hopes Relief” shampoo and find it to be a release from the prison that is my itching scalp.
My husband suffers and my kids get patches every now and then, always trying to find some relief!
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Thanks Narelle 🙂 Good luck!
Hi there, my daughter is an asthmatic and has suffered from eczema all her life. would love to try somthing that is not damaging and more drying. We have had the lot from pinetarsol to presciption. Would love to give this a go. thanks for a chance 🙂
have shared @gherkkerry 🙂
Thanks Kerry! Bah… your poor little girl. Best of luck!
Thankyou for a chance to try it Hopes relief!!!
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