Bioderma’s new eczema lotion will be comforting for anyone with dry skin. Plus another brilliant problem solving mosituriser
I spent much of my childhood basted in crude, heavy-duty emollient creams and grim bath oils. But few patients are as short-changed as eczema sufferers, whose treatments and regimens are not only joyless, but sometimes provide little reward for the trouble.
Although unctuous emollients are necessary to protect a compromised skin barrier, they have a habit of just “sitting” there greasily, refusing to sink in or curtail the itch. The French pharmaceutical brand Bioderma is finally advancing the conversation. Its extensive research into eczema, as well as a recent study of 500 sufferers (about one in five children and one in 10 adults struggle with the condition), were presented as a breakthrough in eczema care at last month’s EADV (European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology) conference in Vienna.
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