Help with itchy rash on neck

[Guest guest]

Pam,

 

Do you know exactly what type of lavender oil you used? Certain

lavender oil has a chemistry to be avoided on the skin and other

lavender oil is safer.

 

Lavender may or may not be irritating to the skin depending on

its chemistry. Lavandin is a hybrid lavender cultivar that produces

lavender essential oil very high in camphor, a natural ketone, and

camphor is a known skin irritant, but the problem is that this type of

lavender oil is sometimes mislabeled as lavender rather than lavandin.

So if you used essential oil with lavandin and high camphor, you would

likely experience skin irritation especially with a scratch. You might

want to check the label and read it carefully, but it may simply say

lavender oil.

 

Lavender oil obtained from the species Lavandula

angustilofia, for example, is very low in camphor and does not

irritate the skin.

 

Another problem is that for years France has been exporting tons

of more lavender oil than it produces in the fields, which means the

extra so-called lavender oil is either synthetically derived or is

diluted/cut with other chemicals or both. Cheap, diluted

lavender oil might have chemicals more irritating to the skin such as

camphor and related ketones.

 

A final concern is that certain distillers choose a faster, high

temperature, high pressure extraction process that may alter the

lavender oil chemistry and produce a lavender with more camphor-type

ketones. Low temperature, low pressure, longer

extraction-distillation is safer in producing higher quality lavender

oil.

 

Neil

 

 

At 12:22 PM +0000 4/20/07, bluegreensolutions wrote:

A lotion with beta glucan would be very

helpful. Beta glucan is an

antioxidant and very healing.

 

Carol

 

, " Pam Staley "

<pam wrote:

>

> I think I'm allergic to essential oils placed anywhere near my

neck -

> I thought that lavendar would be ok to help a scratch heal,

but

> apparently that isn't safe for my sensitive neck area either - I

now

> have a huge splotchy VERY itchy rash covering most of my neck.

It's

> about 3 days old now and I've been taking a penicillin pill 2x

day,

> dousing with peroxide and then patting dry and putting an

antifungal

> cream on it - nothing seems to help with the itchyness - can

anyone

> help with a cream that would alliviate the itching??

>

> thanks

> Pam

>

[Guest guest]

, Neil Carman

<Neil_Carman wrote:

>

> Pam,

>

> Do you know exactly what type of lavender oil you

> used? Certain lavender oil has a chemistry to be

> avoided on the skin and other lavender oil is

> safer.

>

 

Yes, its Lavender Bulgarian - from Butch - so I know its pure and

high quality oil - and even though as soon as I put it on

I 'remembered' that I couldn't do that and tried to 'wipe' it off - I

think I just spread it ... and then again - it could not be related

to oil at all - but it just seems to be the most probably culprit. It

has been a week today that it began to surface, and Wed was the

worst, it is now I think on the downside - the middle of my neck is

clearing up - my jawline still shows small tiny bumps that itch and

the sides of both sides of my neck are still a little red; where it

has 'cleared' up so to speak in the middle of my neck - the skin is

still a bit swollen and leathery now...so am applying fractionated

coconut oil to just soften it up a bit - afraid to put anything else

on it actually. To be safe from now on - no oil absolutely none -

will go on my neck. If I get this stuff again - then I'll have to

figure out what I did then....Sometimes I feel like I have the bumps

just waiting to pop out - its like I can 'feel' something underneath

my skin on my neck - even when bright direct sunlight hits my neck at

times, I can feel the 'itch' underneath and quickly put something

between me and the sunlight.....sigh.....such a bummer to deal with

in this beautiful spring weather - and I have so much to do - what

with our new move and all!

 

any other suggestions are much appreciated!

 

Pam in MO