Itchy skin, be gone! (Care Aqueous Calamine Cream)

Member Name: Fiver29

Product:	Care Aqueous Calamine Cream
Date:	23/07/09 (148 review reads)
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Advantages: Does exactly what it's meant to

Disadvantages: Tub could be a bit bigger

My daughter has the misfortune to suffer from very sensitive skin, and I'll often turn round to find her scratching herself red raw. It needn't be anything touching the skin, her skin will start to burn purely from being to cold or too hot.

We're not exactly sure what causes it, but the Aqueous Calamine Cream certainly helps her find some relief from it. The cream is great for relief against the pox, sunburn and other mild skin irritations. The cream comes in a 100ml tub.

The cream is quite thick, thicker than a moisturiser, probably about the same consistency as ready to use mustard (I know, strange comparison). As with calamine lotion the idea is to coat the affected area with a reasonable amount of the cream. Of course when you're doing entire arms, legs or torsos then it means you'll be using a substantial amount of the pot in one go. If you're dabbing, say onto chicken pox spots, then a pot will last quite a while.

The cream brings my daughter almost instant relief, and means her skin lives to fight another day, rather than be scratched off, because no matter how many times I tell her not to scratch, anyone who's ever had an annoying itch will know how difficult that is.

Ingredients for those worried about allergies are; Calamine BP 4% w/w, Zinc Oxide BP 3% w/w, Emulsifying Wax (includes Cetostearyl Alcohol and Sodium Lauryl Sulphate), Arachis Oil (peanut oil), Purified Water. So the peanut oil might be a problem for some people (not suffering allergies myself, I don't know whether the oil has the same affect as the peanut).

The tub also says to use before the end of the sell by date, but there's no actual date stamped on the tub. This isn't a problem for us as we get through a tub very quickly, but it might be worth making a note of when you bought it on the tub itself.

Summary: Well worth keeping in stock