Eczema is a lifelong battle of red, itchy rashes that can crack, bleed, and make your social life seem impossible. Imagine discovering you have eczema – except on your eyelids. This type of eczema exists and can make simple things in life seem like climbing Everest. Luckily there are five gentle ways to look after it and keep facial flare-ups more manageable.
Eyelid Eczema & Its Treatment
When you hear about eczema and even psoriasis, most people relate it to those drug commercials on TV. While some may experience results with drugs as a treatment for eczema and psoriasis, the best route is to handle it naturally. For a lot of people, the idea that a natural formula could help at all sounds far-fetched. The reputation of natural treatments has a long history of quirky personalities and lifestyles attaches to it, but not anymore.
Natural treatments and natural skin care are now a current and trending choice in both the medical and beauty industries. Years of research, studies, and development in plant extracts has created a new depth to natural that had never been tapped into before. For eczema on the face, especially eyelid eczema, natural treatments are much easier and less hazardous to apply.
Putting heavy eczema-specific creams, ointments, and lotions on your eyelids would make it difficult to keep your eyes open and avoid irritating them. Natural formulas tend to be lighter and sink in better, with ingredients chosen for how calm they leave dry, sensitive skin feeling.
What natural ingredients actually help eczema? Are there natural products that suit eczema-prone skin?
The answer is yes, and here are five natural ingredients worth knowing if your skin is prone to eczema:
- The first and foremost is manuka honey, a raw honey pollinated from the manuka bush, native to New Zealand and certain parts of Australia. This honey's in a different class from the jar in your cupboard, and that's down to the single plant it comes from. It also calms the look of redness, which suits skin that's prone to eczema or psoriasis. Manuka honey's also a humectant, so it holds moisture where thin skin needs it most.
- Blue Green Algae. This ocean plant once harvested contains nearly every organic mineral, plus is high in proteins and fatty acids. Its main purpose would be to help protect the thin, delicate, and sensitive skin of your eyelids as it’s known for strengthening the fibers of the skin to lift, tone and help elasticity and firmness.
- Coconut Oil. One of the best natural moisturizers for eczema, it can hydrate and replenish the loss of water caused by eczema’s drying effects while also helping to reduce fine lines and wrinkles (a two in one!).
- Hemp Seed Oil. Another ingredient that's rich in fatty acids and calms the look of redness. This is the hemp seed oil you'll see most often in skin care, especially for dry skin.
- Cehami Flower Extract. It's a lesser-known Australian botanical, and it's one of the calmest-feeling things you can put on thin skin. Learn more about incredible benefits of Cehami Flower Extract, a natural ingredient
Where can one find these ingredients for their eyelid eczema? We have the answer for that one too.
Wild Naturals Eczema & Psoriasis Cream
Wild Naturals is an all natural skin care line with manuka honey as a key ingredient, including blue green algae, coconut oil, hemp seed oil, and cehami flower extract! The eczema and psoriasis cream is thick in the jar but can be applied with very little and pack a punch. Around the eyes it's a good fit: light enough not to feel heavy, and gentle enough not to sting.
Have a look around the store today and find something gentle enough for the skin around your eyes.