Guest Review: Eczema Honey

The below blog post was written by our guest blogger - Sandra Sosic! #repost

So there I was, minding my own business per usual and I notice that my Pinterest is absolutely riddled with sponsored posts by a company named Eczema Honey. At first I ignored it like most sponsored posts, but this one was relentless and followed me everywhere. So I decided to buy this product that Pinterest really thought I needed. Mainly because this product had so many good reviews on their own site... a suspicious amount of good reviews.

• I like that it's all natural. The ingredients are as follows: Organic Pure Honey, Organic Grated Beeswax, Organic Almond Oil, Organic Sunflower Oil, and Pure Spring Water. That's it. No scary cancer causing chemicals to worry about here. I had a weird relationship with hydrocortisone, I knew it would help my eczema temporarily but I hated putting known carcinogens on my already inflamed skin.
• No adverse effects to report. Believe me, if there were I would have them; my skin is ridiculously sensitive. The eczema relief cream I used prior to Eczema Honey would occasionally leave my skin with rashes not related to my existing eczema.
• This cream is very fast acting. This morning I had extremely itchy eczema on my legs and I applied a thin layer of the Eczema Honey Cream on my legs and relief came within a few seconds.
• This cream definitely nourishes the skin after it gets a chance to sit for a couple of hours. When my skin is recovering from eczema it can be very dry and ashy, and I've found that this cream helps with that. I can't say it makes me skin "smooth" because the cream itself is a little sticky.
• IT WORKS. Honestly, it does. I'm not even going to lie, I didn't want it to work. I felt like the whole thing was too gimmicky-- the raving reviews, outrageous claims, and the price point-- it just seemed like someone trying to make a quick buck off of vulnerable consumers. I bought the product to try and prove that it wouldn't work, and here I am. Jokes on me. However, for me it didn't work overnight like some of the reviewers said it did for them.
• A little goes the longest way. A pea sized amount was enough to leave a thin layer of the cream on both of my legs from the knee down. With that in mind, the product may actually be cheaper than a lot of your leading eczema brands. In my experience with the Aveeno Anti Itch Cream, for example, I would have to use a dime sized dollop for each leg. The price point leads me into the first of the few cons I had with this product.

• This product is rather expensive. I bought one jar and with shipping and handling I was paying just under forty dollars for about four ounces of product. For some perspective, the Aveeno Eczema Therapy Itch Relief Balm comes in at eleven ounces and costs about twenty dollars, that's almost three times the product for half the price. However, I'm also gonna defend the company here, real honey is expensive and Eczema Honey is a small company with nowhere near the resources that Aveeno has. However, to the average consumer, forty dollars is quite a high price point.
• This one is probably obvious, but this stuff is kind of sticky. Definitely not the same as putting straight up honey on the skin, but there is certainly a detectable stickiness after the product is applied, and for me it stays sticky for a solid few hours at least. Some of their online reviewers claim this only lasts a few minutes, that is not the case with me. The first day my jar came in the mail I happened to have some eczema on my wrists and I felt the products presence on my skin constantly. It would stick to my laptop, the pages of my planner, and on my desk. In my experience, if you use this anywhere around your hands you better be ready to call it a night.
• The wait time if you're applying this cream under clothing can be pretty annoying. This also goes along with Eczema Honey being a sticky product. I found that I have to wait at least 15 minutes before putting clothes on. Lately I've had eczema mostly on my legs, and I don't exactly want my sheets exposed to the honey so I have to put the product on while I get ready for bed and then slip on some loose bottoms like sweatpants. Not a huge deal, but something to be aware of.

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