Essential oils for eczema

What are Essential oils for Eczema?
Find out which essential oils may be
useful for relief from eczema.

What is eczema?

Eczema is a general term for many types of skin inflammation, also known as dermatitis. The most common form of eczema is atopic dermatitis. However, there are many different forms of eczema.

Eczema appears as dry patches on skin with cracking, crusting, itchy, reddened often with weeping sores and water blisters. Eczema is caused by stress, chemical cleaning compounds such as detergent, soaps, cosmetic, perfumes, cologne, and also food allergies. Food such as corn, dairy products, vinegar, tomatoes, and wheat can cause eczema.

Treatment for eczema

The best treatment for clearing and controlling eczema are:

• Minimize stress
• Avoid synthetically perfume, cologne and cosmetics
• Follow a healthy diet
• Find out what is your provoking skin sensitiveness and avoid those things

Aromatherapy for eczema

Aromatherapy can relieve eczema by decreasing stress, soothing and healing the skin, calming the inflammation.

Essential oils for eczema

• Benzoin
• Bergamot
• Chamomile
• Elemi
• Geranium
• Helichrysum
• Jasmine
• Lavender
• Lemon
• Myrrh
• Neroli
• Niaouli
• Orange
• Oregano
• Patchouli
• Peppermint
• Rose
• Rosemary
• Rosewood
• Sandalwood
• Spruce
• Tea Tree
• Thyme
• Ylang Ylang

Make your own essential oils blend for eczema

To help control eczema, you can bath in Calming bath daily, Apply a skin compress to the affected areas daily, Several times each day you can apply body oil/cream to the affected areas to reduce inflammation and to promote healing.

Essential oils aromatherapy blend for Calming bath:

• 1 cup cornstarch (optional)
• 2 drops chamomile
• 2 drops geranium
• 1 drop elemi

Disperse all the ingredient in the bathtub with warm water and soak for 30 minutes.

Essential oils aromatherapy blend for Skin cooling compress:

• 1 quart cool water
• 2 drops chamomile
• 1 drop helichrysum
• 1 drop lavender

Pour the water into 2 quart of glass bowl and add the essential oils and blend. Soak a clean cotton cloth in the water and apply to the affected areas.

For the cream, try "CREAM de la CREME" from Birch Hill Happening. Penny made this cream for her husband, Al, who is also suffer from eczema.

Click here to read their story

Reference:

All the recipes of essential oils for eczema are credited to Roberta Wilson and her book Aromatherapy PA (Avery Health Guides)

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