Skin Rashes

Causes of Skin Rashes

Bacteria, viruses and fungi are common causes of skin rashes. Skin rashes can also be caused by insect bites, plants like poison ivy, certain foods, abrasion, heat or sun exposure, chemical pollutants, medications, cosmetics, or an overly dry environment.

Skin Rash Treatment - treat skin rashes the natural way

Since skin rashes dry out the skin, the most direct way to treat a skin rash is to help the skin regain its moisture retention capacity. Just moisturizing your skin isn't enough. When a moisturizer is applied, it hydrates the cells, but the cells quickly lose the moisture. If substances that work synergistically together to restore the skin cells' elasticity are applied to the skin, then as the healing progresses, the cells continue to admit moisture as before, but after the healing are better able to keep it from escaping.

Shea butter is a wonderful agent for revitalizing our skin cells so that they regain their moisture retention capacity. Unrefined shea butter not only contains a high moisturizing fraction, but also contains an extraordinarily high healing fraction. The essential oils that can work with shea butter to effectively treat skin rashes include Lavender, Sandalwood.

The following Karite Gold products each contain Shea Butter and one or more of the essential oils that are most efficacious for the treatment of rashes, and they are all about equally effective. Click on any of these products to find out more about them.

• Shea Butter with Lavender and Myrrh   (fragrance: light and soothing)
• Shea Butter with Lavender, Grapefruit and Vanilla   (fragrance: fresh and invigorating)
• Shea Butter with Sandalwood and Lavender   (fragrance: soft and alluring)
• Shea Butter with Sandalwood and Patchouli   (fragrance: earthy and unpretentious)

When using shea butter to treat skin rashes, apply a moderate amount of Karite Gold to the areas of your skin that are affected by the rash. After you have coated an area of your skin with shea butter, spend some time making sure that the shea butter works its way down under the surface of your skin. Move your fingers in a circular motion as you apply the shea butter.

To learn more about Shea Butter and the essential oils that are used for the treatment of rashes, click on the links below:

• Shea Butter
• Lavender
• Sandalwood

Alternative Medicine

For an explanation of why this treatment works, we recommend the book Medical Aromatherapy: Healing with Essential Oils by Kurt Schnaubelt. If your skin problem persists, we strongly recommend that you see a medical professional - either a dermatologist or a practioner of wholistic medicine who specializes in skin problems.

Click here to learn about other skin problems, besides skin rashes, that shea butter has been known to help. Click here to go back to the top of this Skin Rashes page.