...and the SLF plot thickens

I've just been told by a friend that SLF is in some toothpastes as well. As it's a foaming agent this makes perfect sense but hadn't occurred to me. She discovered this was the cause of her mouth ulcers. As I too suffer with them, I think its worth changing my toothpaste also. Maybe it will help with my mouth eczema too?

She has recommended a toothpaste (corsadyl) and a shampoo from Boots the chemist.

I'm off to town in a bit so will update you all later with what I end up buying.

Sodium lauryl sulphate (SLS) and eczema

Well, I'm back after a long absence. I've had a very sore and dry neck and scalp getting increasingly worse over the last couple of months. I got to the stage last night where I came to the conclusion I must have nits!

My hubby had a good look and said that I had eczema all the way up to the parting on the top of my head. Well that explained a lot! I took this photo to see how bad it was and I'm horrified. Believe me it looks worse in reality.

Soooo....I figure the only thing that's changed in the last few months is that I started using L'Oreal shampoo. I'd won some in a competition. I googled shampoo and eczema and found a lot of stuff about Sodium Lauryl Sulphate (SLS) so decided to investigate further.

I popped in to the bathroom and lo and behold ALL my shampoos contained this ingredient! Quite concerned I thought I'd best use my little girls baby shampoo...only to find it was in that too!

Here is a lot of info about SLS. http://www.babycentre.co.uk/worry-watch/sls/

I'm now on the search for a natural recipe for shampoo. Does anyone have one they can recommend?