Products to Avoid With Dermatitis

Some ingredients are not recommended for dermatitis sufferers as well as for individuals with dry skin:
**Mineral oils (besides water the most frequent ingredient) and related substances like vaseline and ceresin leave a very pleasant and smooth feeling, but in the long run they slow down the self-regenerating energy of the skin. The same applies for the widely used silicones.
**Emulsifiers are additives with the useful property of combining fat substances and water into a cream and transporting the substances into the skin. Unfortunately they also have the disadvantage of dissolving ingredients of creams and skin-own substances out of the skin.
**A frequent cleansing with water rapidly leads to a dry skin condition and depending on the type of emulsifier to severe skin barrier disorders. These effects attributed to mineral oils and emulsifiers cause the consumers to think that they cannot do any longer without (lots of) skin care creams. In reality their skin has become dependent on those substances and it takes quite a while to regain their independence.

A skin care factor which frequently is neglected by individuals with skin barrier conditions is skin cleansing. Especially in areas with very hard water attention should be paid on the fact that the calcium ions included here may easily penetrate in cases of a skin barrier disorder and further continue its destruction. Dermatoses can be frequently observed with individuals who work with water and materials rich in calcium like gypsum and mortar.