Beyond Soap by Sandy Skotnicki

Author:Sandy Skotnicki
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Published: 2018-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

BOTANICALS CAN BE FRAGRANCES

Helen, who lived in a city in southwestern Ontario, came to me in desperation because it seemed as if no one could help her. Her dermatologist had discovered through patch testing that she was allergic to fragrance and plants from the Compositae family—discussed in Chapter 5, and including things like feverfew, laurel oil, yarrow, chamomile and marigold. So Helen was trying to avoid products containing those substances, except that she continued to suffer from itchy and red rashes on her eyes and ears. Sometimes her neck flared up as well.

When people with skin allergy reactions aren’t getting any better, the cause is usually exposure to an allergenic substance in something they haven’t yet considered.

Helen’s dermatologist had given her a list of the plants in the Compositae family, with the warning that she should avoid them. She was also told to use fragrance-free skincare and beauty products. So like a good patient, Helen went out and bought fragrance-free shampoo—Avalon Organics’ Gluten-Free Cucumber Shampoo—and promptly began using it. “A medley of cucumber, aloe, vitamin E and plant-derived cleansers nourish and replenish hair without fragrance or irritation,” says the company’s own literature, which makes a lot of the shampoo’s “gluten free” certification.

The trouble was, the shampoo had several botanicals in it, including calendula and chamomile, both of which are from the Compositae family of plants—the very one to which Helen was allergic. Once she quit using the culprit shampoo, her rash cleared up.

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