A manicure may have caused my facial eczema flare-ups — but this one product was my cure-all:
Eczema has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. As a child, I mostly saw it flare up on my left thigh from time-to-time. Then in my mid-twenties, my eczema decided to start showing up on my face.
The thing with this condition is that it's annoying to deal with, no matter where it is on your body, and when it's on an area that you can't really cover up with clothing, it can be straight up embarrassing. So you can probably imagine how horrified I was one morning when I woke up with puffy, itchy, flaky, red skin all around my eyes — thank God I was working from home at the time. Looking back, I probably should have anticipated a flare-up.
"The skin around the eyes is very thin, fragile, and sensitive compared to the skin on many other areas of the body," the MD tells me. "Eczema around the eyes is commonly the result of an irritant like which is often found in nail polish. We rub or touch our upper and lower eyelids more than we realize, and if you routinely wear nail polish, you are at risk of eyelid eczema around the eyes. This is called contact dermatitis.
Luckily, since this wasn't my first rodeo with eczema, I had a pretty good grasp on how to treat it. I started off by cleansing my skin with — since its formula includes ceramides, hyaluronic acid, and niacinamides to cleanse and soothe the skin without causing further irritation — then followed up with a hydrocortisone cream .
I started to get some relief by the end of the day, but my skin still felt dry, which I knew may make things worse. Since I already knew that my go-to eye cream would further irritate my already compromised skin, my next thought was to reach for some Aquaphor to layer on my eyes after I applied the hydrocortisone ointment to my lids — and it worked like a charm.
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