The Lynx effect - a horrible rash (Lynx Atlantis Shower Gel)

Member Name: liplock

Product:	Lynx Atlantis Shower Gel
Date:	05/10/01 (344 review reads)
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Advantages: Smells nice and feels nice

Disadvantages: I seemed to have an extreme allergic reaction to it.

I was quite happily using shower gels and all sorts of shampoos - until I used lynx. It smells good and feels good but it didn't do ME any favours, maybe I was allergic to something in it.

I suddenly developed this appalling rash on my back that neither my doctor nor three skin secialists could tie down to any particular condition. My diet had not changed, nor had my working conditions nor bathing habits - it was most perculiar.

After a week the skin on my back barely looked like skin, it looked more like red linoleum (if you remember that bumpy stuff you used to have covering the floor in the kitchen).

I quickly changed to an emollient that I forget the name of and slowly the condition seemed to fade until it disappeared.

When I thought the condition had gone I stopped using the emollient and went back to the lynx - after a couple of days I was itching like crazy again. I had run out of emmollient so used a marks and spencers product which didn't irritate me at all.

So in the bin went the lynx and I have been fine ever since. I did get a face rash with the lynx shaving gel but I did with the others too - the solution there was to stick with an electric razor and no aftershave :-)

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