What Am I Allergic To

Looking After Your Allergic Skin  Here are a few tips to looking after your Allergic skin. First please consult your doctor to get a diagnosis and medical advice on your skin condition.   Identify and avoid the trigger allergen. If you are able to identify the trigger or possibility for your skin allergy do tell your doctor about it. Clearly avoid that trigger ingredient.  You may need to be prepared to be referred to a dermatologist or to have skin tests to determine your condition or allergies. Use whatever washes and creams your doctor prescribes for you exactly as prescribed. If you get any reaction from the use of the prescribed creams do tell your doctor straight away, there will be alternatives they can give you.  If you would like to use other creams do check with your doctor first and use in a very small area to test out first for several days before using more widely. Watch your skin carefully for any improvement and any wors...

Avoid The Allergen... Clearly  once you know what you are allergic to the trick is to avoid it! However, it is not always that easy.  When it came to washing clothes I trawled through so many brands of washing powders and liquids yet I could not find one that I can use. I wasted so much money on washing liquids and powders that caused my skin to feel at best itchy and irritated or even started my skin rashing again. We obviously need to wash our clothes so what could we do?  One alternative was to go back to our grandmother's day and wash in pure soap flakes. So I bought some and they work really well! However, you cannot use these in the washing machine or you have foam everywhere! So I use these for all our delicates and small things but I simply am not prepared to hand wash everything!  There are quite a few varieties but they have similar things in common being- you can use them in the washing machine, they last  a long time...

Steam Cleaning Your Home If you are in a position where many of the usual cleaning products are not good for you either due to skin allergies or other reasons such as breathing problems etc, or if you are simply looking for a cleaner, greener, more environmentally friendly way of cleaning your home - then do consider Steam Cleaning. At the outset purchasing a steam cleaner is more expensive than buying a bottle of bleach for example. However, if you count up how many bottles of various cleaning products- for your kitchen, your bathroom etc actually cost over the course of say a year you have probably more than paid for the cost of an average Steam cleaner.  Steam cleaning is also in my opinion very effective, killing germs, getting rid of the visible and invisible dirt and grime and leaving surfaces beautifully clean. All without that horrible chemical smell or any harm to your children, your pets, yourself, or the environment. You are just us...