Miss Marple - Allantoin! Good for spots

jeannieblue

I'm starting a new thread here to lead on from what I accidentally started on Sheer Cover thread.

I've just been reading up on this and feel quite excited! I've always had very itchy overly sensitive skin.

My dad was the same. My son is the same. I've been going round and round in circles for years. Trying different soap powders, soap, bath stuff, make up galore (and recently the mineral make up - see Sheer Cover thread....)

Suffering a major break out/rash/itch/red blotchy face (not an attractive look) at the moment, very embarrassing.

Now I've just read about this Allantoin - going to do some more reading - but am just a tad excited, it describes exactly how I am - now I've only visited a couple of sites re creams which allegedly contain it - they've not stated it does, but the links took me to them. What I have noticed so far, is the prices and varieties. Ouch!

So, I'm not sure what way to go now. Suggestions welcome, I'm going to do some more googling to see if I can find face, body creams and also perhaps shower and bath stuff.

I could be barking up the wrong tree here but hope that 'Miss Marple' aka Veronarona and others can shove me in the right direction if need be!!

jeannieblue

I keep getting links to Guinot products - which are VERY expensive - and they do not list ingredients which is very very irritating, bit like my skin!

I've found Allantoin powder loose, £2.50 for 25gm, on a site where you can buy products to make your own make up. Not sure about that.....

suki1964

Udder cream

Keeping_Motivated

Hi I've never heard of it but the way you describe you skins sounds like mine. Its only on my face but it can have breakouts/blackheads and it is also dry and red and blotchy dry patches and nothing I put on it touches it!!?? So I'll read your thread with interest.

Sound attractive don't I

jeannieblue

Keeping_Motivated wrote: »

Hi I've never heard of it but the way you describe you skins sounds like mine. Its only on my face but it can have breakouts/blackheads and it is also dry and red and blotchy dry patches and nothing I put on it touches it!!?? So I'll read your thread with interest.

Sound attractive don't I

You sound as attractive as me, it just lowers ones self esteem - I'm grateful for the four days off so don't have to put make up on! But at the same time I would love to go out! But can't without covering it, look so awful.

Having just finished chores and dinner etc., will try and find out more about this Allantoin, I have found a source for the powder on a site where you can buy ingredients to make your own make up. Its not any good for me in the sense that, I don't have the time!

Veronarona told me about the Allantoin (udder cream as suki1964 said), which is in the mineral concealer that Elemental Beauty make. I googled Allantoin (wish I knew how it is pronounced) and there is a wealth of info and would like to say I am enlightened, I'm not. There are words like urine and then there are words that say its from comfrey. Confused.

I will try and find out as much as can over next day or so. Am tempted to buy the powder - £2.50 for 25 gm - but wouldn't have a clue how to use it. ie with water? make up? bath? shower? mix with?

As much as want face clear, would love to get all the 'itchiness' out of my life! Also too for son, who gets itchy too.......... and he doesn't wear make up.......

suki1964

Genie, if your son is also getting itchy, i really would advise going back to your Gp and getting a formal diagnosis and hopefully a treatment plan as to me it really does sound like Seborrheic Dermatitis (esp now as you say your son suffers). There is no cure but outbreaks can be controlled. S.Derm is more common in men then women, most sufferers are either babies or over 30's and its a complaint that flares up in the winter months more so then the summer. As I also said in a previous post stress will also make it flare up.

I know we aren't meant to be asking or giving medical advice but I really wouldn't be looking at applying products that you don't have a clue about. If you really are wanting to look at the healing properties of Allantoin then perhaps seek out a herbalist (its also found in comfrey which would be easier sourced) - its also found in dogs urine, the urine of pregnant women and earthworms

Keeping_Motivated

Hi Jeannie

I think it pronounced...Alan... twan...

I've had a quick search too and I'm not much clearer... I am inclined to think it is something I am 'lacking' from within like some vitamin difficiency but no idea what? Would love to have a blood test to check my vitamin levels but where could I get that done? I doubt the doc would do it or take me serious.

As for your son, my daughter also had itchy skin and my doc told me to wash her in aquaeous cream never anything else especially soap and since then she has much improved. I couldn't do that for me because while it might ease the dry patches it would definatley give me spots and blackheads... Can't win...

veronarona

I think it's pronounced....... uh-LAN-toe-in....... , emphasis on the second syllable, third syllable as in what you've got ten of on the end of your feet.

I was saying Alan Toyn :rolleyes:

veronarona

Keeping_Motivated

lol so we are getting closer to pronouncing it corredctly but not knowing exactly what it is and what its in

jeannieblue

Re myself, doc gives me cream for the ezcema and advised antibiotics for the spots - been there done that.

I'm not a lover of antibiotics all the time - rather get to the source of the problem.

Re son, he's taking antibiotics, again, rather he didn't to be honest - he still gets flare ups - he's nearly 28 and fed up, although his face is not really spotty. Re the itching - the Doc told him he is allergic to water......... keep taking the tabs.......

When in the sun, both of us are fine - but short of emigrating to the Tropics, we're a bit b*ggered.

This is why got a tad excited re Allantoin - reading about it made it sound like the 'answer'!! But trying to locate products with it in... zilch!

I don't have a dog at the moment, my niece is pregnant - and there must be worms in the garden....... surely there is a better way....

As the above are all sources of Allantoin, how do you get it? A pot of comfrey? Or would you need it extracted from the comfrey? If this stuff is so good, why is it not in more hypoallergenic stuff?

Answers on a postcard please.......... :rotfl:

Mrs_pbradley936

Someone I know who had a particularly bad case of Seb. Dermatitis was given diflucan for 3 days in a row, the once a week for 4 weeks and now takes a pill once a month. Some people just have the sort of skin flora that allows yeast to flourish and it is the yeast that causes the redness and inflammation.

More about it here: http://dermnetnz.org/dermatitis/seborrhoeic-dermatitis.html