It is scary having a new baby, especially if it is your first. But how much more scary does it become when, even though you are breast feeding and doing all that the books tell you to do, your baby is obviously in constant pain, is not sleeping, is covered in eczema and is …
Eczema
Living with MI (methylisothiazolinone) allergy
Alex has done it again..... Found an extraordinarily abstruse subject (did you ever read his piece on gluten-free communion hosts?) and dissected it in great detail. But on this occasion he has not only dissected it, but reconstructed it into manageable and comprehensible …
How to stop scratching tips
A really excellent blog from Ruth at What Allergy? about scratching - or rather - how not to scratch. I don't think that those of us who are lucky enough not to suffer from a condition such as eczema or psoriasis have any concept of how insane-driving the itch can be. The need …
Can skin prick tests cause food allergy?
Wet wipes have been accused of a lot of things – creating 'fatbergs' in sewage systems, adding to the microplastic threat to marine life, preventing the breakdown of solid matter in landfill sites and causing skin rashes both on the bottoms of the babies on which they are used …
FreeFrom Skincare Awards – the judging….
A typical scene from a Skincare awards judging session – our new awards co-ordinator, Kirsty Mawhinney of Skin Insight, and Sarah Stacey of the Beauty Bible comparing notes on a product while Lorraine Dallmeier of Formula Botanica peers dubiously at her hand which has just had …