There’s a little dance I’ve learned to master with my eczema-prone skin after spending most of my adolescence with thick, scaly, and red patches atop my knee and on many of the other bendy parts of my body. And that dance has mostly involved my keeping my skin moisturized day in and day out with creams rather than lotions, as well as avoiding the heavily fragranced body-care products that were crucial to my generation’s Victoria’s Secret body lotion craze.
Still, I’ve got lingering itchy patches along my forearms and ankles, so I thought it’d be the perfect time to put the very viral “body slugging” trend to the test. Basically, the trend consists of reinforcing that do-good layer of moisture with a slab of petroleum-based jelly. After all, the internet has deemed slugging a skin-care, body-care, and even hair-care hack – so why not try it as an eczema fix?
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Kseniya Kobets, MD, is a board-certified dermatologist at Montefiore Einstein Advanced Care Westchester in NY.
