Maintaining the right skin pH is critical for helping with your child’s itchy, rashy skin.
On the pH scale, 7 and higher is basic (alkaline), and 7 and lower is acidic.
Skin pH is slightly acidic and that helps keep the skin barrier functioning the way it’s supposed to.
When skin pH gets disrupted, you get leaky skin, and dry, itchy rashes.
Even an increased colonization of problematic skin bacteria, like Staph aureus!
Avoid making your child’s skin alkaline! Things that contribute to that are:
👉🏻Hard water
👉🏻Many if not most soaps, cleansers, and moisturizers (even natural products)
👉🏻Over use of baking soda baths
Other factors that play a role in skin pH:
👉🏻Lighter skin is slightly more alkaline than darker skin
👉🏻Skin pH differs from body part to body part (i.e. armpits and private regions have higher pHs, which can be why those areas are more problematic in some kids)
There are sooo many other factors, too.
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