AmLactin 12 % Moisturizing Lotion - 567 g / 20 oz

This product has been a miracle- although it's one of several components to my 5 month journey with eczema.End of Aug 2015- I got poison ivy- which I am extremely allergic to. 5 weeks later- it didn't go away- I went to dr and she gave me 9 day dose of prednisone. Total cost including visit- $135. The steroids helped. But the moment I stopped- I got itchy all over and scratched around my armpits - in front and back- while asleep.4-6 weeks later -I was on vacation in Shanghai- so went to the dr- and he gave me a steroid creme to apply. Costs- Unknown. It helped a lot- but didn't heal- and now my rashes were getting bigger.One weekend of scratching made them ooze- and two dr. Visits later- I was covered head to toe in 100 rashes/spots- and about 20 of them were oozing. 8 of them were larger than 3 inch ovals. This was partially due to the fact that one visit- the dr eyeballed my rash and incorrectly diagnosed me with ringworm (without doing a biopsy)- and gave me an oral antifungal- fluconozale - which made me break out all over my body and gave me the 100+ itchy spots. Now I was about $500 in with visits and meds.Finally I make an appt with the derm- but it was a two week wait. I read about natural remedies. So I took a bath- every other day and soaked for 45 minutes- in water plus 3 cups of Epsom salt. This naturally drew out the bacteria that my oozing patches were infected with.2 weeks later- my rashes no longer oozed yellow (staph)- and a visit to my derm confirmed- I had nummular eczema. I was spending an hour a day- changing my bandages ($20 for total supply)- and moisturizing with bag balm ($10/8oz). However they still took a biopsy to make sure it wasn't ringworm- since the two are often confused for each other.2 weeks into my salt baths- my rashes no longer looked infected- and they weren't gaping open- they were more closed up- and looked red and porous. Weeping still and required bandages. My derm prescribed me a $40 one lb tub of corticosteroid called triam- something. I didn't use a single ounce of it. They needed to wait for biopsy results before they would prescribe anything else.at that point - since my rashes had closed up much more- I started doing bleach bathes every other day. 30 gal water plus 1/2 cup of a 6.25% bleach. 20 mins. After 5 of these bathes- my rashes- all but two- had stopped oozing. I made sure to put bag balm all over my body and rashes after these bathes. When the oozing stopped- I was still left with these big red bumpy rashes.Now enters amlactin. Since my rashes were no longer "open" and oozing- I felt safe to use amlactin. What a difference!! Within 3 days- all my bumps are smooth-and much less red. Some of the bumps are just red along the edges and skin tones in the center- as if the center is healed/more healed.The texture of the skin toned parts of my eczema rashes- feel weird tho- they're smooth/flat-yet look wrinkled and feel slightly rough. I'm guessing this is just a process of the exfoliation? Because I doubt this is a scar.... Scars are smooth, shiny and some are slightly raised??In addition to all this- amlactin has sealed in moisture- and eliminated itchiness. It's eliminated itchiness more effectively than aquaphor bag balm- and just as effective as corticosteroids. I will use this until my eczema is healed (as I've never had eczema until this past several months- I'm imagining that it will stay away?)I hope it doesn't come back- and I hope I'm not dependent on amlactin to keep it away.I quoted the price of my Drs- because i paid out of pocket. And including that biopsy- I was well into this over $1000.However - my two bags of Epsom salt - bottle of bleach, aquaphor, bag balm, gauze, tape, and amlactin- cost about $75. They have done more wonders than all the dr. Visits put together.Mind you - I also chose to take this battle against eczema from within my body - by eating healthy. I was taking vitamins, esp. C, omega-3, making broths from bones (beef or chicken), doing green smoothies (leafy greens with fruit plus matcha- matcha is green tea that's been powderized), and no alcohol.I'm still fighting this the natural way. I stopped doing the bleach bathes the moment my rashes stopped weeping- eliminating the need for bandages.Without amlactin- I would still be left with hundreds of raised red bumps that itch incessantly at night. I've always been a healthy eater but never someone who was against prescription meds. Now- I trust my body and less invasive methods - bc I've seen the life changing effects they've had with healing me- where pharmaceutical meds couldn't. Puts a lot of things into perspective!Update- one week later** - my skin has noticeably changed. All the bright red parts of my skin- some - where I was fearful even of scarring- have turned over. They've lightened and created these wrinkly patches all over my body. Now- those patches are peeling/shedding- and those that have shedded- have exposed new, untainted and unscarred skin.I can't wait for this nightmare to be over. Thanks to this product- I'm going to be able to work out again and not worry about sweat irritating my rashes which are now gone. Thanks to this product- I can look forward to wearing sleeveless shirts and shorts in the summer---

First off, if you believe in a miracle 1 time use instant cure, this is not for you.If you are an inconsistent person, also not for you.If you think this should smell like ambrosia, not for you either.If you're a whiny ninny head, not for you.This stuff WORKS. Here's a few things:1) Be consistent, duh! Use it at least daily. Slather it all over. Feel kinda greasy/filmy? Keep rubbing it in. Your skin needs to soak/absorb this stuff.Overly greasy/filmy means you haven't rubbed it in sufficiently. If you don't use this at least every other day, you aren't going to see results. Sorry, but with beauty, unless you're born with it...no instant results.2) Smell? I can't smell anything. But some people have mentioned it smells like ammonia. Whatever. Which is worse, a faint smell that goes away, or having a chicken skin butt and thighs that look like you sat in an ant pile?3) Is it burning/tingling? Do you shave? Guess what, this bad boy is full of lactic ACID. That burning feeling is MOST LIKELY tiny cuts from shaving your DRY SKIN. You are getting these tiny cuts because...YOU HAVE DRY SKIN. KEEP USING AMLACTIN. THE MORE MOISTURIZED YOUR SKIN IS, THE LESS LIKELY YOU ARE TO GET THOSE STUPID MICRO CUTS.4) EXFOLIATE. Holy cow I can't stress this enough. Get some kind of scrub. NOT A SALT SCRUB. Why no salt scrub? See #3, unless you want to cry like a baby. Think your skin is too sensitive to exfoliate often? Get a different scrub. Personally I use a sugar scrub that is for eczema. There are few products on the market that are aimed at KP, so I figured an eczema scrub would be close.HERE'S THE DEAL: This stuff helps your skin exfoliate, right? So in order to help it along, exfoliate to get rid of dead skin to let it reach what it needs to.AND HERE'S ANOTHER DEAL: If you have KP, guess what? Those scaley plugs have to go SOMEWHERE. The Amlactin will over time work on dissolving them. If you exfoliate often, you can/will help to speed this process/knock some of those plugs out. Over consistent use, I found that my KP improved and lessened - and started to "loosen" the larger/yuckier plugs and make them easier to remove. Which brings me to my next point...WHERE MY PICKERS AT? You know who you are. If you tend to "pick" at things, be warned: Trying to forcefully remove these plugs, while bizarrely fascinating/disgusting/satisfying, can result in slowing the healing process down, creating dark spots, making it "worse", etc -- yes, I am that person. Thankfully Amlactin will help ease scarring, but these things can take a LONGGG time to fade - WHICH IS WHY YOU SHOULD EXFOLIATE FREQUENTLY TO HELP REMOVE THOSE STUPID PLUGS BEFORE YOU CAN EVEN GET TO THEM.