Eczema Collection

Eczema

I got rid of my own eczema when I learned how to make my own soap. I learned that the drying ingredients in other soaps were destroying my skin, became educated in what comprised commercial soap (mostly chemicals) and laundry detergents and that liquid soap is made from a detergent base. I learned 90% of what you put on your skin is absorbed into your body.

Staying away from unsustainable ingredients, like palm oil, that is harvested from trees by taking the seed out of the fruit of the tree and deforesting some of the world’s most biodiverse forests, means I can give you a product pure and free from anything that will harm your skin.

I believe in soap with ingredients you know and can pronounce. My basic recipe (though some soaps change it up with ingredients like apricot oil or honey) consists of olive, coconut and castor oils, and shea butter.

If I can use it, so can you.

 

What I Did

In 2018, I created Dragonfly Dreams by Sarah after a goat milk soap making lesson class followed by a cold method soap making lesson class.

The experience –the aromatherapeutic scents, formulating a recipe for soap, learning the technique, and the creativity at the end with topping the soap with botanicals- made me fall in love and I knew there was no going back.

It’s not only about the fact that I started my own business.
It’s being able to educate people on what I’ve learned that is the most fulfilling. I used to struggle with eczema but I always had a draw to nature. When I was little, I used to take hour drives up to my grandparents’ house. Passing the farms and countryside along the way, it was a taste of the world outside my own. Sure, I saw flowers in books and movies, but on walks, I would always pick flowers and be curious about them, go down our ravine and always be outside. Little did I know, that nature would be the answer to my problem.

Eczema is a skin condition that is usually (not always) auto-immune related, that leaves the skin dry, bumpy and red. I noticed the medicated creams that were given me left my skin in-fact more irritated, that sometimes I would wash it right off for relief. In-fact, any commercial creams for dry skin would burn my skin and I couldn’t find any relief to heal or solve my skin.

That was until I looked outside to nature. I firmly believe that nature is what resonates with our bodies. I know it to be true.

Plants contain their own ‘chemicals,’ or bioactive compounds, but they shouldn’t be called chemicals, because in-fact, they’re like their individual super powers. What I mean is that plants contain saponins, triterpenes, quercetin, glucosides, vitamin c, curcumin and more. These compounds can be used to create soap, heal wounds, relieve pain and inflammation among so much else when used correctly. Examples include calendula, aloe vera, woundwort, vervain and garlic.

I infuse plant botanicals into my oils and use them in the soaps and/or salves to get/ reap the most benefit from their healing properties and give you the best product you deserve J

For eczema products, I use pure and local Ontario honey, found in my Honey and Oat soap (honey is soothing, calming, anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial while the oats act like a natural exfoliant). Other soaps wonderful for soothing skin include the Raw Milk soap (milk’s lactic acid encourages skin turnover and the shedding of dry skin cells) and the Calendula and Orange soap (calendula helps with skin dryness and can help relieve pain from dermatitis, and the pink clay soothes, heals and restores radiance).

One of my customers swears by the Honey and Oat soap and, because of her, I’m creating a Honey Salve. Because of her, I’m reminded of my eczema days and inspired to help more people like me and her.

Coconut oil is one of the few plant oils that can check every box when it comes to the effects of topically applied plant oils on skin pathology: Skin barrier repair, anti-bacterial effect, anti-inflammatory effect, antioxidant effect, wound healing and effective in skin healing and skin cancer.

This is why I believe in Nature.

If we didn’t have it, what would we have? In the type of environment we live in, with extra stresses and environmental pollutants, our busy lives, why not take care of our skin and give it a well-deserved drink.

Sarah
Dragonfly Dreams by Sarah.

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