Keeping your skin moist using a moisturiser helps to stop your skin losing water and creates a protective layer. Caring for your skin is especially important if you have lymphoedema. Any skin breaks can make you more likely to get an infection. Moisturise your skin at least once a day with a good skin cream …
With the added worry of influenza and now Coronavirus (COVID-19), hand washing and hand sanitising becomes so vitally important. No one wants their immune system compromised. All this frequent hand washing and hand sanitising can leave your hands cracked and dry. Give your hands some extra love and keep those hands moisturised. For lymphoedema sufferers moisturising and skincare is extremely important …
Get a head start and make moisturising an essential part of your daily skin routine. If it’s chemotherapy or radiation your skin becomes sensitive to everything through the side effects of treatment. A gentle and sensitive moisturiser becomes an essential part of your daily skin routine. Moisturising is the key so wear an old t-shirt to …
Don’t forget to keep your lips hydrated this Summer. As part of your oral care it is important to moisturise your lips. We’ve included Burt’s Bees lip balm in Kit. It’s a 100% natural beauty product, free of parabens, phthalates, petrolatum and SLS. Dry lips can be a problem for cancer patients during treatment causing further discomfort and problems …
When out and about over this festive period your immunity can be low going through chemotherapy. It’s important not to pick up any rogue germs. Make sure you carry your hand sanitiser with you everywhere you go, especially public toilets. Wash your hands with soap and water but after you put your hands on the germy handle …
It’s important to use gentle products that minimize the chance of skin aggravations. Add sensitive skin to the long list of body changes happening during treatment. Cancer treatments may make your skin dry, itchy, and cracked increasing risk of infection when your skin and immune system are compromised. Some treatments are known to cause hands and feet to …
Love a new delivery of Burt’s Bees beeswax lip balm. We pop one in our Kit for Cancer case to help nourish and makes your lips feel luxurious. Infused with power packed Beeswax to condition skin and antioxidant Vitamin E to richly moisturise and soften lips, this lip balm nourishes dry lips while keeping them revitalised and hydrated. …
Caring for your skin is important especially if you have lymphoedema. Any skin breaks can make you more likely to get an infection. Moisturise your skin at least once a day with a good skin cream and avoid cuts, splits, and abrasions. To give your hands some extra love we have added a super-smooth ThankYou …
As part of your oral care it is important to moisturise your lips. Chemotherapy can cause cracked lips through dryness, cracking, soreness, bleeding, infections that are fungal in origin, and cold sores from herpes simplex. This can be extremely painful especially when you open your mouth wide you develop badly, cracked lips especially on the sides and …
Tempting as it might be on these cold mornings avoid having your shower or bath too hot. Hot showers and baths strip skin of natural oils and exacerbate dryness. It’s important to use gentle products that minimize the chance of skin aggravations. Make moisturising an important part of your skin care regimen during the chilly, …
