Update: random soap that has me mostly symptom-free

Hello all. I posted last fall when I first figured out I had LS after a week of itching and noticing my skin was white. I was 28 at the time, planning a wedding, and devastated. I didn't want to change my diet, stop wearing jeans, stop drinking wine, and have to apply goopy creams and oils every day.. nonetheless it was not something that could be ignored because of the crazy itching on the tips of inner labia and clitoral hood. Doctors experiences were not helpful and I try to stick to homeopathic remedies. I was prescribed clob and did not want it (or to pay for it). I was doing lots of baking soda baths and castor oil but wasn't quite sure if it was really helping. That went on for a few months. Luckily i did not experience too much tearing or have any symptoms in my vagina.. but from all the itching my labia area was so tender and the skin was thick and swollen. This carried on through the winter..

I am a very healthy person but as stated before, the one other medical issue I have is tinea versicolor (relatively harmless but annoying white patches on back & shoulders) and I just knew something in me was causing both that and the LS. Tinea is another stubborn condition that doctors are not helpful with. With my upcoming wedding, I did not want the white patches all over, so I ended up trying a treatment soap from Amazon that had great reviews as a last ditch effort in march. The soap consists of sulfur and lavender. (I had used lavender drops in my castor oil and didn't feel like it did anything btw).

After trying so many remedies for my tinea, this $10 soap started working amazingly. One day I decided to apply some to my LS and the next day, no more itching. I kept using and the itching was really subsided for me. After a few weeks, my skin wasn't swollen and thick anymore and I started to forget I had LS. I wondered if it was just a coincidence but on numerous times when i have forgotten to use the soap I was notice the slightest itching the next day. It has been a god send! No more need for castor oil or baking soda baths. My skin is still really, blatantly white so I'm going to try the borax. Also, I didn't end up doing major diet changes, elimating jeans or wine from my life, etc. One thing I will say is that added sugar DEFINITELY causes itching like everyone here says. As I'm writing this, I am awake in the middle of the night due to itching because I didn't use the soap last night and I got into some brownies now that my diet is lax post-wedding. It is a little flashback to the misery of last fall. I have been nagging myself to post here to tell you all about the soap and this seemed like a good time. I know it's not technically what the soap is for, but then again we all seem pretty open to non traditional remedies here and the soap is homeopathic and I don't think would cause any harm.

The soap on Amazon is called: Naturasil Tinea Versicolor Relief Soap and comes in a white & purple box. It is $10 for me in the US. I lather the soap bar directly on to my skin and rinse it right off.

I hope this helps someone and that you guys can get this in the UK. Not sure how prevalent Amazon is there but I would assume it is. Let me know if any of you try this 😀

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