Natural Eczema Treatment for Real Relief from Eczema & Dry Skin
Learn how to make an eczema treatment that works. This eczema relief balm recipe uses ingredients that soothe inflammation, itching and dryness.
If you’ve ever suffered from eczema then you understand how awful it can be. Finding relief from over-the-counter topical eczema treatments, however, can be a challenge. Often times, I’ve found, these products make my eczema worse. This natural eczema treatment is different. Formulated using only natural ingredients known for their ability to help relieve inflammation, itching and dryness, my natural eczema relief balm offers real relief for your eczema or dry skin – with or without essential oils.
Struggling to Find an Eczema Treatment that Works?
You may remember my anti-aging serum recipe I shared two weeks ago. The carrier oils used in that serum are also incorporated into my natural eczema treatment. So if you’re looking for more ways to use those ingredients, this natural eczema relief balm is the perfect recipe!
While I’ve been lucky and haven’t struggled with eczema since eliminating most dairy products from my diet, not all of us are able to escape our eczema through diet alone. In fact, my dear friend Cathy, recently had her eczema flare up so badly, she ended up with open wounds from scratching. And, like most of us, she went through an array of over-the-counter eczema treatment products. None of which actually offered any relief from her symptoms. A few of them, in fact, actually made her skin burn. While others made the itching worse.
As I had plans to meet up with Cathy for Wine & Art Wednesday, I quickly threw together a natural eczema remedy for her irritated skin. My natural eczema relief balm worked fabulously on Cathy’s eczema. While the anti-aging serum (sans the essential oils) I also created the same day, did wonders for the eczema on her face.
How to Formulate a Natural Eczema Treatment for Relief
Since making my natural eczema treatment for Cathy, I’ve revised my natural eczema relief balm recipe three more times. The recipe I’m presenting you with today, is the result of those changes. This natural eczema remedy has the consistency of a rich, creamy beauty balm. It fully absorbs into skin after about a minute or so. In addition to soothing itchy and inflamed skin, it also moisturizes and protects skin while still allowing skin to breathe.
I formulated my natural eczema treatment with essential oils. However, if fragrances or essential oils irritate your eczema, you can simply omit them from my natural eczema relief balm recipe. The remainder of my eczema repair balm is made up of other primarily plant based, natural ingredients with the exception of lanolin and beeswax. These ingredients include skin conditioning shea butter and murumuru butter as well as rosehip seed, moringa seed and borage carrier oils. 100% vitamin E oil is also added for its ability to promote healing.
About the Ingredients in this Natural Eczema Treatment
Every ingredient used for my natural eczema relief balm was chosen with care for its ability to remedy eczema. Following are details on the skin care benefits of some of these ingredients.
Borage Oil
Borage oil is one of the key ingredients in my natural eczema relief balm much like my anti-aging serum. It offers a variety of natural skin care benefits especially for those who suffer from acne, eczema, skin reddening and rosacea. This natural oil is suitable for even the most sensitive skin and is a superior moisturizer. A common treatment for dry skin and cradle cap, borage oil helps fight skin inflammation and dryness to promote skin health. (Learn more about borage oil here.)
Moringa Seed Oil
A nutrient dense carrier oil, moringa seed oil is another prize ingredient for my natural eczema treatment. Like borage oil, it has anti-inflammatory properties when used in skin care. While naturally occurring antioxidants help promote cellular turnover for healthy looking skin. Its incredible moisturizing properties help to hydrate maturing skin as well as ease the symptoms of eczema, dermatitis and psoriasis. (Discover more ways moringa seed oil is commonly used here.)
Murumuru Butter
Murumuru butter, similar to the carrier oils used in my natural eczema treatment, is also rich in essential fatty acids. It also contain pro-vitamin A. This makes this natural butter a popular product in anti-aging skin care formulations. In addition to its moisturizing properties, murumuru butter promotes moisture retention making it an especially useful addition when used for dry skin and eczema remedies. (Learn how to make a murumuru sugar scrub recipe for eczema and dry skin here.)
Manuka Essential oil
Manuka essential oil, like manuka honey, comes from the leaves of the popular New Zealand plant by the same name. This essential oil is non-toxic, non-irritating and non-sensitizing, making it suitable for all skin types. This also means it won’t irritate eczema prone skin. Like the other ingredients in my natural eczema relief balm recipe, this essential oil is also anti-inflammatory. It is commonly used to offer relief for itchy skin and dandruff, rashes and common skin diseases. (Learn more about manuka essential oil, and how to make a natural manuka deodorant recipe, here.)
Now that you know a little more about the natural ingredients that went into my natural eczema treatment, let’s get started making it!
Natural Eczema Relief Balm Recipe
Ingredients:
3 oz. unrefined shea butter
1 oz. emulsifying wax
1.5 oz. murumuru butter
.75 oz. cosmetic beeswax
.5 oz. rosehip seed oil
.5 oz. borage oil
.5 oz. pharmaceutical grade lanolin
.25 oz. moringa seed oil
.05 oz. vitamin E oil
20 drops manuka essential oil
20 drops patchouli essential oil
10 drops lavender essential oil
How to Make an Eczema Relief Balm
You will need a digital scale to weigh out the ingredients for this natural eczema treatment.
Begin by weighing out the shea butter, emulsifying wax, murumuru butter, lanolin and beeswax. Combine the ingredients in a double boiler and heat over medium low heat until all the ingredients have melted.
Turn off the heat. Then weigh out the rosehip seed oil, borage oil and moringa seed oil. Stir into the melted butters, waxes and lanolin. Now remove the ingredients from heat.
Add the vitamin E oil and essential oils. Stir to combine. Then pour into your containers of choice.
I used a combination of 2 oz. glass amber jars and 1 oz. white polypropylene thick wall plastic jars.
Allow your natural eczema relief balm to cool completely. Once it has solidified, screw the caps onto your containers.
How to Use an Eczema Treatment
To use your natural eczema treatment, simply massage onto affected area as desired. Allow the balm to sink in. (This may take a minute or two.) Then reapply as needed throughout the day.
Wet Wrap Therapy as an Eczema Treatment for Moderate to Severe Eczema
For really bad eczema, I also recommend using this natural eczema relief balm in conjunction with wet wrap therapy. Wet wrap therapy is another natural eczema treatment for moderate to severe eczema.
Eczema wet wrap therapy creates a physical moist barrier for your skin. When used in conjunction with an eczema relief balm or cream, it helps the moisturizer penetrate skin more deeply. This natural eczema treatment can significantly improve your skin’s condition in as few as two days. Learn more about wet wrap therapy for your eczema, along with instructions, here.
More Natural Eczema Treatments
If you like my natural eczema relief balm recipe, then you may want to consider one of these other natural eczema treatments.
- Honeybush Tea & Pumpkin Seed Oil Eczema Salve Recipe
- Natural Murumuru Sugar Scrub Recipe for Eczema & Dry Skin
- Pine Tar Soap Recipe for Eczema & Other Skin Issues
- Dry Skin Body Oil Recipe with Hemp Seed Oil
- Homemade Neem Cream Recipe for Eczema
- Extra Nourishing Brazilian Triple Butter Soap Recipe
- Bacuri Butter Beauty Balm Recipe with Lanolin
What’s your favorite natural eczema treatment? Share your success stories – or struggles with eczema – in the comments.
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11 Comments
Sissybrat
January 23, 2019 at 5:37 am
Do you sell your
Natural Eczema Balm? Or something I can purchase similar?
Rebecca D. Dillon
January 23, 2019 at 8:22 am
I’m sorry, but I do not sell any products. It’s possible you may be able to find someone on Etsy to make it for you. Or you can purchase a similar product there.
Lilmat
January 30, 2019 at 3:01 am
Why you use emulsifying wax in this eczema balm cream recipe when there is no water in ingredients list?
Rebecca D. Dillon
January 30, 2019 at 8:00 am
It helps make this balm feel creamy rather than hard, like a salve, for a smooth application.
Victoria
February 7, 2019 at 4:02 pm
Wow, I thought I knew my oils, but I’ve never heard of a few of these, like the borage oil… Time to order some! Thank you for another great article 🙂
Rebecca D. Dillon
February 8, 2019 at 7:34 am
You’re welcome!
Rhoda Ann Banta
February 22, 2019 at 12:15 pm
Great recipe and information however I’m wondering would this be good for psoriasis? Although the two conditions are similar treating them are different. Is this a good treatment specifically for psoriasis or do you have a recipe just for psoriasis.
Rebecca D. Dillon
February 22, 2019 at 1:06 pm
Psoriasis is an autoimmune condition. So any natural remedy such as this recipe can help to soothe psoriasis and ease inflammation. However it’s not going to clear it up or solve the underlying issue. A prescription from a medical doctor is your best bet for controlling psoriasis and keeping symptoms to a minimum in addition to avoiding foods known to exacerbate the condition such as dairy and processed meats.
Jenni
March 7, 2019 at 2:38 am
My little boy is 10 months and has suffered from eczema since he was around 6 months, touch wood, since using Foderma his eczema has gone! I use it on him religiously every day even though his skin is now clear. We tried every cream, lotion and oilment the doctors gave us but nothing helped. Childs farm worked for a short period but then his eczema came back, since using foderma his skin is perfect, would definitely recommend this serum as it also helps massively to prevent itching!
Sam
January 1, 2020 at 1:36 pm
Love the recipe! Would like to try and make it for my sister who gets bad eczema flare ups from time to time but just wondering if there’s a plant based option I can substitute the beeswax and lanolin for as she is vegan and won’t use these ingredients. Thank you so much for your help!
Rebecca D. Dillon
January 1, 2020 at 2:51 pm
Thanks! You can use a vegetable based emulsifying wax in place of the beeswax, however you may need to increase it slightly as it typically has a slightly lower melting point. Alternately you can use a lesser amount of candelilla wax which has a higher melting point. Carnauba wax is also an option. You can look up the melting point of the wax you choose then figure the % it is higher or lower than beeswax. Then simply reduce or increase the wax based on that % in the recipe. There’s not really a sub for lanolin, however you can simply omit it.
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