| ECZEMA, PSORIASIS, ACNE AND OTHER SKIN DISORDERS. |
| By : Supriya Sahu | Previous | Next |
| Posted on : 24 Dec, 2005 | Total Views : 744 |
Cooper, a 7 month old baby has eczema from head to toe. Or does he? Shirley has psoriasis so very bad that her bed sheets were bloody from her involuntary scratching in her sleep. Or does she? Drew, a first year student at Syracuse had a severe case of acne. Fearing depression, his parents took him off of Accutane. The severe acne returned. Or was it acne? Velvet, a black Labrador dog, shakes in seizures within moments of her bath. A psychological reaction to her baths? We think not!
Cooper’s young mom told us of having to put little gloves on her son’s hands to keep him from damaging his skin from scratching. His doctor diagnosed eczema. It sure looked like it to us except it was everywhere but where his disposable diapers touched his skin. Coincidence? Some miracle drug in the diapers? Still it was odd that the eczema was everywhere but where the diapers touched!
Shirley was told that she had psoriasis, or something like it. Nothing seemed to work. Even cortisone did not change her skin. She was tested for diabetes and even Cancer. All negative. Then what was it?
Drew’s skin gave the appearance of real acne. Doctors treated the results, but what was the cause? Bacteria they say, but what causes the outbreaks really?
Velvet having a psychological reaction to a bath? Come on! A Labrador water dog!
What do they all have in common? Within one-week of using our Island Rx all of their skin disorders were gone or significantly diminished. Within two weeks, gone!
Island Rx, A miracle soap? No!
Island Rx, an all-natural chemical-free therapeutic soap? Yes!
Did they stop using products that contain SLS? Yes!
Coincidence? We think not!
Here is What I Know for Sure!
When my husband developed Island Rx for me after Melanoma surgery, I noted that my skin condition took on many symptoms of many known skin disorders. Not being a doctor, but more of a scientist engineer, my husband was not interested in treating my symptoms. That was my dermatologist’s job. He searched for the cause!
His studies took me to the honored halls of institutions like Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland and Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California. He studied the work of holistic practitioners from around the world. He connected with herbalist and burn therapists. He even communicated with aboriginal medicine healers in the Australian Outback…All in search of the causes of my conditions.
He tested hundreds of variations of lotions, oils and remedies. All of his research kept coming back to my pores and what was in them. Again, he had no interest in treating my symptoms, he looked to a cause. So, it only seemed natural for him to want to clean my skin without harming it.
The answer to him was soap. For years, he used a wonderful soap made in Escondido, California named Dr. Bronner’s Castile Soap™. It is a liquid soap made with many organic ingredients. He asked me to try it. It was somewhat helpful, but still harsh to my hyper-sensitive skin. It did not seem to reverse my conditions.
He felt that he was on the right track, but he needed to substitute some of the base oils in Dr. Bronner’s with something else that was less harsh. Reaching back to his days in the San Pasquel Valley, California, growing avocados, he sought out avocado oil. he searched for other oils to use in our soap that were soothing and known to be therapeutic. Then he turned to herbs and essential oils that would heal without damaging my skin.
To make a very long story short, after hundreds of variations, he developed Island Rx. My skin subsequently cleared, the redness was gone and no more itching!
Well as our story goes, our friends convinced us to make a business of it. Keys Soap was born. We set up the business and went to market as an all-natural chemical-free soap that was therapeutic.
What does this have to do with Eczema, Psoriasis, Acne and other skin disorders?
One day, just after we started test marketing Island Rx, we received an e-mail from someone asking if Island Rx would work for acne. We said, we didn’t know! And we told the story of how Bob made the soap for me and that I had some symptoms that resembled acne. We sent the person a free 4oz bottle. Another person heard about Rx and asked us if it worked for Eczema. Again we said; “We just make soap and if you are willing to try it, here is a bottle”. That story was repeated for all sorts of skin disorders and we sent off free bottles. In fact, every time a Keys Soap story runs in a magazine or newspaper, our phones light up and the e-mails come in asking the same questions and telling the same stories. All are desperate for a solution!
Well, we started to hear back from people that it was working. Not just on one disorder, but all of them. How strange! Frankly, I know the recipe for Island Rx is darned good, but it is not a miracle drug. It is not a drug at all. It is an all-natural chemical-free soap that has known therapeutic essential oils and herbs. That’s all! Not bad, but that’s all it is!
Why was it working for people of all ages and different skin types? The question remained unanswered. I was happy that it was working for people and I really did not know why.
The scientist in Bob kicked in and he thought the answer was totally within Island Rx and its ingredients. It wasn’t!
One day, I decided to wash my face with a prescription skin cleanser. I wanted to follow it with an alpha hydroxide skin exfoliant and then a lotion. You know, the typical sort of process that women go through for their face.
Almost immediately, my face broke out in small bumps and redness similar to my disorders before reappeared. I knew it was the cleanser because I did not have time to continue the process. I called Bob to look at it and the first thing he did was to look at the ingredients on the cleanser package. The very first ingredient was Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS). Wondering what it was, he Google’d it and tens of thousands of articles, sites and information was in front of him. Some saying that it was the most evil sinister chemical we can put on or in our bodies and some with manufacturers defending its virtues. Not a minor controversy, but one that has pages and pages about it on the National Institute of Health’s web site, reams of pages in the EU and talk of banning it in Australia. Was this true?
The only thing that I know for sure is that it was in my $50 cleanser and it was not in Island Rx.
I will tell you what I think in a moment. What I know is that all of the people above used many gels, cleansers, shampoos, dish washing detergents, clothes detergents and even baby soap every day of their lives. Not just one, but many. They all contained SLS as the first through third ingredient.
To add fuel to the controversy, one Island Rx user and fan went to her dermatologist to extol the virtues of Island Rx. She started using it a few weeks before she was scheduled to have a biopsy done on a brown patch on her cheek. Within a week the patch diminished and another week it disappeared. She told her doctor that she felt that it was the Island Rx that reversed the spot. His response was “Bull----, it can’t be the soap; it has to be all the things I prescribed.” Her story is on our testimonial page on the website.
I add this story here because it is controversial. Greater minds than me are at odds over SLS. I choose to not enter the fray, but to just offer; “What if I am right and that many, if not most of skin disorders, are caused by the chemical we put in and on our bodies”?
What if it is true?
Here is What I Think!
I wanted to separate what I know from what I think so that you can investigate on your own, study and draw your own conclusions on chemicals in our personal care environment. So here is what I think! My opinion!
Remember, I am not a doctor. I am the wife of a techie who has a wife with a massive skin problem. He developed a product that has proven to work on my skin and many other conditions.
So what I think is going on for some people is that they are being diagnosed with skin disorders using the typical names associated with skin disorders. The reason? Skin disorders are not life threatening and are not high on the medical communities radar screen. To the sufferer, achieving a better quality of life is a high priority. Skin disorders like allergies may not be medically as important as cancer, but how they are feeling is darned important to them. If SLS, its derivative chemicals and other chemicals are causing skin disorders that look like eczema, psoriasis, acne and other disorders, it should not be a debate, but a holistic prescription from their doctor. To me, they should say; “Stop using anything with SLS and see if you get better.” I would agree! Never in my wildest dreams do I expect them to say, “Stop using anything with SLS and start using Keys Soap Island Rx.” So of course I will say it here!
There is no question to me that there is real acne, real eczema and real psoriasis as well as hundreds of other real skin disorders. What I think is that a few, some many, you pick the adjective, are caused by SLS and are diagnosed as one of the many skin disorders because doctors and medical schools have not yet begun to truly study the effects of everyday chemicals on people and animals.
Here is what else I know; of the many people that we have sent Island Rx to that had one of the above diagnosed skin disorders, over 90% of their problems went away when they stopped using all SLS products and started using Island Rx.
Do I believe that Island Rx is a part of the solution? Absolutely! Do I believe it is the total solution? Absolutely not!
So if you are reading this, you, someone you know, a patient or someone you love probably has some skin disorder that is affecting the quality of their life. Here is a seemingly simple test that will take a week. Maybe 10 days at the most. If this works, I hope you will buy Island Rx to see the added benefits of my soap. Remember this is going to seem simple and I know it will be very hard to do. You must be passionate about what I am going to ask you to do. So here is my 2-Step program.
Step One! Stop using any products in your world that contain SLS or any other chemical that you cannot pronounce or recognize!
Simple right! Not really, because just about everything you use on or near your body contains SLS. Hand soaps, gels, shampoos, dish detergent, laundry detergent, engine degreaser, floor cleaner, antibacterial soap, counter cleaners and even your toothpaste contain SLS. Also checkout makeup because many mascaras contain SLS.
So here is the drill. Don’t ASSuME. Before you use anything that resembles a liquid soap, pick it up and read the label. If it has chemicals, don’t use it…DON’T USE IT! Please don’t forget that laundry detergent uses SLS, so you have to wash your clothes and bedding in a non-SLS laundry soap, ditch the dryer sheets too! And don’t forget when you are in public restrooms, that the hand soap there is the absolute nastiest of the nasty. Carry a small bottle of a soap that you know is pure and use it instead.
Stop using all of them for one week and see if you notice a difference in your skin. It is worth a try and it does not cost you a doctor’s visit, the anguish of waiting or the price of another prescription.
Oh, by the way, you just may find that the skin allergy you have is not an allergy at all, it just maybe a reaction to chemicals in your environment.
Step Two, Buy Island Rx!
I sincerely hope my first step works for you and I hope you will buy our Island Rx, our hand soap and our pet shampoo. I know that they will make an added difference!
Written By : Supriya Sahu
