Aveeno ACTIVE NATURALS says they are the only product which features natural colloidal oatmeal, clinically proven to relieve and moisturize dry skin.
What is it?
Colloidal oatmeal, also known by its Genus Species name, Avena sativa L., helps smooth and comfort itchy, scratchy, and dry skin. To get the benefits from the oats, you add this all-natural product to your bath where its soothing effects take over when you relax in the tub.
How Does it Work?
It is simply oats ground into an extremely fine powder. When added to bathwater, it creates a milky dispersion that prevents the oatmeal from settling rapidly. So the oatmeal stays in the water and doesn't just sink to the bottom of the bath. When you get into the tub, the colloidal oatmeal feels silky, as it coats, moisturizes, softens, and protects your skin.
What can you use it for?
It works great to help relieve dry, skin patches (Eczema), psoriasis, acne, bug bites, sunburns, and other minor skin irritations. It also helps relieve chicken pox, poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, and other itching and scratching rashes. Since it has an anti-itch property that helps reduce the “need to itch,” soaking in the bath brings soothing comfort to those infected. When your skin is itchy and irritated, its pH level may be higher. The oatmeal helps bring the pH back to normal levels, taming "the need to itch." I add it to my powder cleanser and my masks.
How can you make your own?
What you'll need:
Oatmeal
To get started, you'll need oatmeal. The easiest way is to buy oatmeal you get at the grocery store. Make sure you don't get the "instant" kind.
Something to Grind Up Your Oatmeal
This part is up to you. Use whatever you have to grind the oatmeal into the finest powder possible, so it dissolves easily in your lukewarm bath. This could be anything from a blender, a food processor, a coffee grinder, mortar and pestle, or a Kitchen Mill. I like to grind up an entire can of oatmeal at one time, then keep it dry and use when needed. I use a magic bullet or a blender.
That's it. Grind up enough to make it worth the mess, and give some to your friends.
What is it?
Colloidal oatmeal, also known by its Genus Species name, Avena sativa L., helps smooth and comfort itchy, scratchy, and dry skin. To get the benefits from the oats, you add this all-natural product to your bath where its soothing effects take over when you relax in the tub.
How Does it Work?
It is simply oats ground into an extremely fine powder. When added to bathwater, it creates a milky dispersion that prevents the oatmeal from settling rapidly. So the oatmeal stays in the water and doesn't just sink to the bottom of the bath. When you get into the tub, the colloidal oatmeal feels silky, as it coats, moisturizes, softens, and protects your skin.
What can you use it for?
It works great to help relieve dry, skin patches (Eczema), psoriasis, acne, bug bites, sunburns, and other minor skin irritations. It also helps relieve chicken pox, poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, and other itching and scratching rashes. Since it has an anti-itch property that helps reduce the “need to itch,” soaking in the bath brings soothing comfort to those infected. When your skin is itchy and irritated, its pH level may be higher. The oatmeal helps bring the pH back to normal levels, taming "the need to itch." I add it to my powder cleanser and my masks.
How can you make your own?
What you'll need:
Oatmeal
To get started, you'll need oatmeal. The easiest way is to buy oatmeal you get at the grocery store. Make sure you don't get the "instant" kind.
Something to Grind Up Your Oatmeal
This part is up to you. Use whatever you have to grind the oatmeal into the finest powder possible, so it dissolves easily in your lukewarm bath. This could be anything from a blender, a food processor, a coffee grinder, mortar and pestle, or a Kitchen Mill. I like to grind up an entire can of oatmeal at one time, then keep it dry and use when needed. I use a magic bullet or a blender.
That's it. Grind up enough to make it worth the mess, and give some to your friends.
