Bleach Bath for Eczema. Bleach baths and other cheap eczema remedies. Eczema sufferers are easy marks.
When you are itching to crawl out of your skin a $100 bottle of snake oil seems like a bargain! Marketers promote exotic and expensive ingredients on the basis of the barest threads of scientific evidence. Creams containing extracts from the peel of the jabara fruit, for example, are touted because they grow only in regions where most people have no allergies (see New York Times article) -- yet even serious research on the subject of psoriasis can be confusing and contradictory. Lanolin, for example, is the main ingredient for many creams doctors recommend to relieve the itchy dry skin typical of eczema, yet often dermatologists warn against using it because some people are allergic.
I am as vulnerable to marketing as anyone else, and in my search for the perfect recipes I bought many useless expensive oils and ingredients just because the word "dermatitis" was printed nearby.