Sensitive Skin Soaps

Soap for psoriasis is a mild, ideally fragrance-free cleansing bar chosen to wash psoriatic skin without stripping it further. It does not treat the condition itself. Its job is to clean gently and avoid becoming one of your psoriasis triggers. Think of it as a polite houseguest, not a doctor. Here is the plot twist … Read more

Coal tar soap for psoriasis is a medicated cleansing bar traditionally made with coal tar, a thick by-product of coke production, to loosen scale, calm itching and slow the over-fast skin-cell turnover seen in psoriasis. In the UK, though, most bars sold under that name no longer contain any actual coal tar. That’s the plot … Read more

You step out of the shower, towel off, and ten minutes later your forearms feel like sandpaper that someone has set alight. Sound familiar? For a huge number of people in the UK, the humble bar of soap is the quiet villain of the bathroom. What is soap for eczema? In practice, soap for eczema … Read more

Stand in the soap aisle with eczema and the shelf starts to look like a minefield. Every bar promises “gentle”, “pure” or “sensitive”, yet NHS advice on atopic eczema is blunt: wash with an emollient instead of soap. So is any eczema soap bar genuinely okay, or is the whole category a polite fiction? The … Read more