March 19, 2010, Newsletter Issue #258: Oatmeal baths can relieve itching

Tip of the Week

Your skin is the largest organ on your body. Rashes, eruptions, and itches are indication the skin is helping your body remove toxins or other problems. For itching, you might try an oatmeal bath.

Use oatmeal soap which can be purchased at craft or specialty shops. If you can´t find any, while you are at the craft shop, pick up a block of glycerin soap. This can be melted down in a double boiler or the microwave. Add pulverized oatmeal (put dry oatmeal flakes into the blender and turn it into a coarse flour.) to the melted glycerine soap. It will be set up in a few hours and ready for a shower.

OR: mix some pulverized oatmeal into a small amount of baby wash and use as a shower gel.

OR: Bring two quarts of water to a boil. Add 1/4 cup of oatmeal. Remove from heat and allow the oat meal to steep till cool enough to touch. Then, strain the oatmeal out of the water. Dilute the water five to one and bathe with the water or pour it into a bathtub of warm (98%) not hot, water for a bath.

I make soap and have added oatmeal to the soap for relief from poison ivy rashes. It can help, but stay in touch with your physician if rashes don´t go away. Getting relief from itching is only treating a symptom.

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