Try natural yoghurt - that should take the heat out of your skin and help it clear up quickly - not the nicest smell mind you but good at what it does.

When i client wants to extend and i REALLY dont want to ( you know the type when you literally count the minutes until times up ), I tell them i have to go feed my cats lol x

Or 100% Aloe Vera gel

Urgh I'm so annoyed with myself.

I had to stop working for two weeks because I had a really bad flare up of eczema and required antibiotics, and my skin generally looked really bad. Well the medication I was given has the fairly benign side effect of making my skin super photosensitive to sunlight. "No Problem" thinks I, skipping merrily out the doctors surgery, "it's rained solidly for nearly a month, I don't need to worry about no stinking sunburn!" and promptly forgot all about it.

Well wasn't today just a glorious day and I decided to tcut my car and wax it, get a bit of sun on me and boost my vit D levels. Totally forgetting I was on this medication, I merrily spent 3 hrs working up a sweat in the sunshine.

5 hrs later cue horrendous sunburn and strap lines over my shoulders, just when I was getting ready to accept a booking for tomorrow night. I am really pale skinned anyway and it's super obvious. I can't now work until it fades a little and I'm expecting that to take at least a week! Argh!! I'm so annoyed with myself! I really could do with the money!

We've all heard about clients who give us rubbish excuses as to why they can't make a booking, but what's the silliest/most unexpected reason you've had to cancel a booking or stop working for a while?

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to offer some advice regarding eczema treatments. My mum is a Dermatology Nurse so I'm fully aware of how little the General Practitioners at your Doctor Surgeries know about eczema treatments. Me and my siblings have also suffered on various levels, hence my mum's choice of career.

Firstly, antibiotics are a strange choice for treating eczema. They should only be prescribed if your skin has become infected.. and it's especially worrying if you've been taking them for more than 2 weeks. You would need to rebuild your immune system afterwards, so you're also susceptible to catching common illnesses from clients.

For a flare up of eczema, it would have been much more sensible to take Antihistamines. In terms of healing the skin itself, 0.5% and 1% Hydrocortisone are the weakest steroid creams but are very effective for a simple flare up. You can buy these over the counter for a few pounds.

DO NOT USE Eumovate, Betnovate or Dermovate in their ordinary cream form. These do more harm than good as they are too strong and only promote scar tissue. A good Dermatologist will prescribe these in an OINTMENT  form if necessary. The ointment form dissolves and heals the skin beyond the Epidermis, which is much more successful for treating a more severe flare up.

The best advice I could give anyone would be to drink lots of water throughout the day, this can prevent flare ups as well as improve your general health. Aloe Vera gel is perfect for reducing sensitivity and Oilatum products are also very good, particularly for dry skin.

Your General Practitioner's job includes balancing the NHS's books. They will usually try to recommend the cheapest medicines and treatments. The international pharmaceutical corporations that produce these medicines are interested mainly in treating long term customers, not patients. It's a huge conflict of interest in my opinion.

Always do your research on any medicine or treatment that you're unsure about. If you feel you need to, then ask your G.P. to refer you to a specialist. I hope this helps!

Sunny

As Sexy and Strawberry have said, Aloe Vera is amazing stuff.  Rather than buying bottles of the stuff, just buy the plant as it's way cheaper and almost impossible to kill.  You'll have a never ending supply then as it grows very quickly.

Dunno about impossible to kill -  i killed a cactus once  i thought they were un killable     (well it never got any bigger and went sort of brown )