Hydromol products all contain emollients, making them a popular choice for those with dry, irritated skin.

They help to protect and hydrate your skin from the inside out.

Emollients and moisturisers help to ease your eczema symptoms by hydrating your skin, helping to keep your skin soft and controlling your flare-ups.

Emollients work by forming a protective layer over your skin which helps to keep moisture from escaping, hydrating your skin from the inside out.

Some emollients also contain ingredients which can protect your skin from irritants like soap or detergents, taking a two-pronged approach to managing your eczema flare-ups.

The ingredients in the Hydromol products we stock are as follows:

• Hydromol Ointment: Cetomacrogol emulsifying wax (contains cetostearyl alcohol and macrogol cetostearyl ether), yellow soft paraffin and liquid paraffin.
• Hydromol Cream: The active ingredient is sodium pyrrolidone carboxylate 2.5%. The other ingredients are liquid paraffin, isopropyl myristate, sodium lactate solution, cetomacrogol emulsifying wax, myristyl myristate, macrogol cetostearyl ether, hydroxybenzoates (parabens) (E218, E214, E216), phenoxyethanol and purified water.
• Hydromol Bath and Shower Emollient: The active ingredients are light liquid paraffin and isopropyl myristate. The other ingredients are C12-C14 alcohol with 3 molecules of ethylene oxide, polyol fatty acid ester and iso-octyl stearate.

Eczema is a condition which causes patches or wider areas of dry, itchy, irritated skin.

It’s really common, especially in children, so you probably know a few people who have eczema if you don’t have it yourself.

Eczema is a chronic condition, which means that it’s a long-term thing that won’t just go away overnight and will sometimes get better or worse.

There are many different types of eczema, but the most common type is atopic eczema, which is also known as atopic dermatitis.

Eczema can break out anywhere on the body but it's most common in the following areas:

• Knees
• Elbows
• Neck
• Hands
• Cheeks
• Scalp