The Healthy Skin Show 146: Chlorine + Bath Additives w/ Christa Biegler, RD
Today's episode is all about bath additives. Bleach baths, chlorine baths, colloidal oatmeal baths, Epsom salt baths...my guest and I cover all this and more!
My guest today is Christa Biegler, host of the Less Stressed Life podcast and has an integrative nutrition private practice focusing on skin, digestive, autoimmune and allergy issues.
She started The Less Stressed Life as a play on words for anti-inflammatory life. She lives with her unicycling husband and kids in the rural Midwest.
Join us as we talk about the different kinds of additives in a bath that may help with skin irritation and inflammation.
Have baths with different additives helped your skin rashes? Let me know in the comments!
In this episode:
- Why do bleach baths sometimes work?
- Christa's personal story with eczema
- Other bath additives that you probably haven't thought of
- Why oatmeal can be helpful and soothing
- Can hard water be an eczema trigger?
- Eczema Relief Diet
Quotes
“The whole point of detergent is to pull oils off of the skin, which are going to compromise that skin barrier in someone who's already compromised.” [10:59]
“[Colloidal oatmeal is] an anti-inflammatory, it's got some flavonoids in it and some alkaloids and some sterols that have this anti-inflammatory and barrier repairing effect.” [13:30]
Links
The Eczema Relief Diet: Short-Term Plans to Identify Triggers and Soothe Flareups
Christa's free online training
Christa's guide of things not to do if you have a child with eczema
Healthy Skin Show ep. 042: How Sulfur Can Trigger Skin Rashes w/ Christa Biegler
Healthy Show ep. 128: Eczema Sleep Problems w/ Christa Biegler, RD
Healthy Skin Show ep. 116: Can Chlorine In Water Harm Your Skin? w/ Lara Adler
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