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, …
One of the unfortunate side-effects of some chemotherapy is mouth ulcers and sore 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 on the sides …
Unfortunately, radiation injures or kills healthy cells as well as cancer cells in the treated area. Repeated radiation exposure causes an imbalance in tissue damage and repair so that exposed skin is damaged faster than it can repair itself. Even after continual moisturising it can become sensitive, burnt, blistered, peeling and very uncomfortable. We have included in …
Being in and out of hospital, sometimes you don’t feel so clean! There are so many sick!! people and with the added worry of influenza, hand washing and hand sanitising becomes so vitally important. No one wants their immune system compromised. All this hand washing and hand sanitising can leave your hands cracked and dry. It’s important to …
WOW, who would have thought there is an International Bath Day, observed annually June 14. Legend has it that on June 14th Greek mathematician, scientist and scholar, Archimedes, discovered while taking a bath that an object’s volume could be accurately measured by being submerged in water! Relaxing in a bath can be so rewarding and it’s …
This hot weather.can cause your lips to be dry, dehydrated and chapped. The development of sore lips from treatment causes further discomfort for patients. Chemotherapy can cause cracked lips through dryness, cracking, soreness, bleeding, infections that are fungal in origin, and cold sores from herpes simplex. When you open your mouth wide you develop badly, cracked lips …
You may be out and about Christmas shopping or having more visitors over this festive period. Your immunity can be low going through chemo so 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 …
Give your skin the loving it needs and moisturise. Have a daily routine skincare routine to help protect your skin. Use lukewarm water when washing face or showering as hot water can dry out your skin and strip it of the natural oils it produces. We have added Sorbolene and Thursday Plantation Aloe Vera Gel to …
Sorbolene and Aloe Vera Gel can be great friends to your skin when you are having radiation. Unfortunately, radiation injures or kills healthy cells as well as cancer cells in the treated area. Repeated radiation exposure causes an imbalance in tissue damage and repair so that exposed skin is damaged faster than it can repair itself. We …
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 …
