Once your skin dries and begins to scale or crack, you have already entered the battle zone. It takes time to repair damaged skin and overly-dry, scaly skin is no exception. Under ideal circumstances your skin serves to protect you from foreign bodies and helps maintain hydration. Keeping it healthy and protected goes a long ...
You visit your friend to congratulate her on the birth of her new baby and you see a green square can setting on her coffee table. On the lid is a drawing of a cow’s head surrounded by red clover. You pick it up and read “Bag Balm.” It’s used on cow’s udders and teats ...
Approximately ten million Americans suffer from eczema. Eczema is an acute or chronic inflamation of the skin characterized by redness, itching and the outbreak of lesions that may ooze and become encrusted and scaly. If you suffer from it, you’ll soon realize that finding an effect treatment for eczema can be a challenge. Part of ...
If your baby has a diaper rash, try these home remedies before heading out to the store to spend more money! Home remedies are the perfect solution! Natural home remedies for diaper rash is by far the best solution for your baby, and the cheapest. Many products you will already have around the house. If ...
Bag Balm has been around since 1899, and in today’s world of often discontinued products, that’s really saying a lot. Its original use was to keep cow’s udders from becoming chapped during the cold Vermont winters, and for minor abrasions on farm animals. The farmers who applied Bag Balm to their cows noticed that their ...
It has been nine months. A time spent nurturing your body and unborn baby, buying layettes and infant necessities, and decorating the nursery for the arrival of your beautiful child. You might feel anxious and restless, the excitement building up as that Big Day approaches! I certinaly did, when I had my baby daughter a ...
Treating cracked heels is no laughing matter. That hard, cracked skin can incite terrible heel pain, and be fairly difficult to treat with just lotions. If you are on your feet all day in wet socks in particular, your skin can become damaged and crack as it dries, leaving you with deep gouges in your ...
As soon as I found out I was pregnant, my first thought wasn’t about how my nights would be filled with diapering, if I would breastfeed or not, or what kind of a first birthday I would throw for my child. The first thing I thought about, like most mothers, was the shopping. Thoughts of ...
From one desperate mother to another, I would like to share my story with you on chronic diaper rash. I’ve been there done that, and now want to give you the knowledge I’ve gained from spending countless hours on the computer and in my pediatrician’s office searching for explanations, remedies, solutions and preventions. If I ...
Just like kids, dogs get booboos from time to time and just like kids dogs don’t always have to be rushed to a professional. You can actually take care of many problems in your own home. These home remedies are recommended by vets to not only save you money, but to allow you to take ...