A Special Report for Nurses
As a healthcare professional you have a higher risk
for skin dryness and irritation
Can Rubbing Alcohol Have Long-term
Negative Effect on Your Skin?
Constant exposure of the skin to an irritant such as alcohol gel can cause something called irritant dermatitis. Irritant dermatitis is a severely itchy, red and painful rash in the area exposed to the irritant. It resolves once the irritant has been stopped for a few days. It occurs because the irritant is damaging to the skin.
It occurs because the irritant is damaging to the skin. Alcohol gel is very drying and removes the oily protective layer of the skin, leaving the skin surface exposed to the elements and making it prone to breaking down. The chemicals will also be damaging to skin cells causing them to break down and die and triggering an inflammatory reaction to the irritant.
Everyone has the potential to develop irritant dermatitis with alcohol gel products – but we are all different and tolerate exposure differently. For example, you may have been washing your face a few times a day with alcohol gel with no problem for four years. This means that you are more tolerant than someone who say has eczema and couldn’t wash their face like this more than twice without developing irritant dermatitis.
Just because you have been fine all these years doesn’t mean you will continue to be fine. You may develop irritant dermatitis at any time. As soon as your skin has had too much exposure, it will develop a reaction to the gel.
The best way to protect your skin is to moisturize the exposed areas immediately after each wash. This will add back the protective layer, keep your skin hydrated and protect it from the elements. If you do develop an itchy rash, stop using the gel for a few weeks until it calms down. You then should be alright to start using it again but if it’s happened once, it will happen more frequently.
I do suggest you stop using the alcohol rub and switch to a more pH friendly soap instead to prevent this from happening.
NOTE: Rubbing alcohol is 70% isopropyl alcohol / 30% water whereas Hand sanitizers are 62% alcohol.
There are only Two Kinds of Nurses
Those who have problems from Those who ‘will’ have problems from
hand Sanitizers hand Sanitizers
Either Way
Both need Stevens Skin Softener Cream
To To
Manage the problem Prevent or Minimize the Problem
Apply to Hands
Three times daily!
1. Before leaving home
2. Half-way through your shift
3. Before going to bed
(as well as any-time it is needed)
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Interesting Facts About Jojoba Oil
- Used by the Indians of the Sonoran Desert for hundreds of years to soften and moisturize skin.
- Penetrates your skin deeply, unlike lanolin, petroleum or mineral oil which sits on your skin and rubs off easily..
- Reduces superficial facial lines. (Wrinkles)
- Significantly softens the skin.
- A natural organic oil that will not clog pores.
- Adsorbed by the skin rapidly.
- Highly compatible formulation to the natural moisturizing oils found in human skin.
Interesting Facts About Avocado Oil
- Used by the Egyptian and Aztec civilizations for skin therapy and as a moisturizer.
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- Avocado oil is richly endowed with antioxidants which combats the oxidizing process in nature that damages the body tissue and causes aging.
- A natural organic oil that will not clog pores.
- Absorbed by the skin rapidly.
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- Highly compatible formulation to the natural moisturizing oils found in human skin.
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With as many times as the therapists have to wash their hands throughout the day
you can imagine how much they appreciate a good moisturizing cream.
Thank you, once again, for the samples of Stevens Skin Softener Cream you left for our department to try. The most vocal responses have come from our own Radiation Therapy staff. One of the Radiation Therapists, absolutely raves about your product. She has bought it for her entire family to use. The therapist in charge of the treatment planning, particularly like the Kiwi scented lotion. With as many times as the therapists have to wash their hands throughout the day, you can imagine how much they appreciate a good moisturizing cream.
Generally the patients really like the samples, and it does keep their skin from drying out too much from the radiation therapy.