Entry to My Favorite Things Challenge 189

Lately I got interested in card-making... This week I came across My Favorite Things website and decided to enter their weekly challenge. Here are the sketch and the card I made:

An Effective Homemade Treatment for Eczema

Finally, after trying organic virgin coconut oil (OVCO), extra virgin olive oil, steroid cream, immunosuppressive cream, organic pure shea butter, pure vitamin E oil, apple cider vinegar/baking soda mix, unfiltered apple cider vinegar, petrolatum (Vaseline), garlic juice, Udderly Smooth cream and GlaxalBase cream, and ingestion of homemade yogurt, kimchi and OVCO on my kids' continuous eczema outbreak, I finally came up with this recipe which worked amazingly with my kids' eczema. By the way it also works great on mosquito bites. Here it is, simple, cheap, straight from the cupboards:

1 tsp GlaxalBase cream (jar, not lotion in tube)
1/8 tsp garden sulfur powder (I used Green Earth)
*Note: GlaxalBase cream used on its own is a great daily maintenance treatment

Mix it up until dissolved and apply on the inflamed skin. Big girl said once it stinged for a few seconds once but not all the time. Little girl had no complain. It stopped itch in a few minutes and the skin had no more redness within a week. Well yes the elimination of food that caused sensitivity (in our case they're dairy products, soybean oil and strawberry) really helped decrease the number of flares but when there was an outbreak, this cream worked wonder.

Eczema Gone

Finally, big girl's eczema is gone! The skin is smooth again, kinda means cured. The remedy:
(1) Eliminate diary, ane, soy bean oil and deep fried food from diet.
(2) Twice a day, spray on "magic spray". While damp, pat on Gold Bond extra strength.
"Magic spray" = 40 mL unpasteurized apple cider vinegar + 1/2 tsp baking soda to pH 5-6 (close to 6)

Note from 04Jan2013: After about half a year of occasionally using this recipe upon eczema outbreaks, my kid's eczema slowly became worse... until I started using GlaxalBase cream as a maintenance treatment. The result was only acceptable until I came up with the new cream... see recipe in the next post.

Da Best Stuffs

Best Hawaiian raggae radio station: ISLAND 98.5
Best Hawaiian radio station listing: Imagine Hawaii
Best Hawaiian recipes: AlohaWorld recipes
Best liver recipe: Deerhunter's Scrapple

Happy Birthday!

Today is the birthday of this blog, yeh! So why "luau leaves"? I like big bright green leaves and food, and luau leaves suit both well. Or may be I should call it swiss chard leaves cuz I always cook swiss chard to substitude luau leaves, yum.