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Skin Cleansing

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People with Morgellons report some or all of the following skin issues:

  • Itching/crawling skin, hair, ears
  • Insect bites or sensation of bites
  • White particles coming out of skin, hairs and scalp
  • Small red spots, new 'moles' and pimples
  • Blackheads, enlarged pores and greasy skin
  • Open sores that don't scab over properly. If they do heal, skin eventually looses pigment
  • Single filaments that come out of skin and hair (may look like carpet lint)
  • Bundles of fibres coming out of skin
  • Insects troubling skin and hair follicles
  • Stinging, shooting pain, often in fingers and feet
  • A feeling that skin is not clean, even after a bath

The goal is to draw out all white matter, filaments and specs from under the skin.

Exfoliating the skin daily is important. Exfoliating gloves are great for this. Salt works to draw out the debris and can be added to your water, soap and shampoo to help exfoliate.

Initial Skin detox Bathing tips:

  1. If you can, soak in a very warm bath for 10 minutes in hydrogen peroxide solution and salt (1.5kg). Hydrogen peroxide is sold in 3%, 6% and 9% 200ml bottles at most chemists. For one bath you will need either four bottles (3%), three bottles (6%), two bottles (9%) . What you may see is lots of white particles coming out of your skin pores, this will decrease over time. This can be done via a spray and flannel wash if bathing is not possible.

  2. Rinse off under a shower and use sulphur soap all over, using exfoliating gloves to scrub intact skin. Rinse again after a few minutes

  3. Massage vinegar in your hair and rinse out

  4. Use a good hair conditioner

  5. Dry off with a clean tea towel

  6. Apply one of the following; DSP cream, coconut oil/butter, cold cream, zinc cream (eg Sudocrem) or teatree oil mixed in a moisturiser.

  7. Always dry hair with a hair dryer, instead of letting it dry naturally.

  8. Use talc powder over night to dry out spots or lesions

Other bathing combinations to try:

  • Vinegar and 1.5kg salt (or just massaging vinegar in hair, before rinsing)
  • Essential oils with 1.5kg salt
  • Bentonite clay and sulphur soap

Some people find showers better than baths for ongoing maintenance.

Other skin treatments to try:

  • Hibiscrub used as a soap and shampoo
  • Grapefruit seed extract added to shower gel/shampoo
  • Rubbing skin with brewed green tea after salt exfoliation
  • Massaging skin with olive oil and/or bentonite clay
  • Massaging skin in sunshine or when using far infrared heat or FIR sauna
  • Vigorous exercise helps force out debris, once core body temperature has risen

For ears

  • Otex ear drops or equivalent
  • Cotton bud dipped in vinegar

For eyes

  • Herbal antibacterial drops
  • Drops with boric acid
  • Sulphur drops
  • Colloidal silver drops (no greater than 10ppm)
  • Johnson's 'no tears' baby shampoo
  • Brewed green tea bags

For nasal cavity

  • Flush with warm saline solution
  • Flush with warm green tea

Hair care

  • Massage anti-frizz serum combined with a few drops of peppermint oil on wet hair
  • Spray hair care items with vinegar after each use.
  • Keep hair shorter

Skin symptoms should begin to decrease, if combined with a disciplined diet.

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NOTE: If you are on medication for an existing condition, you should consult your doctor before taking certain products internally (for example, grapefruit seed extract can interfere with heart medication)

Please feel free to contact us if you need any further help or advice OR if you have any ideas on skin cleansing not mentioned.

Further advice is available with international team of sufferers at: Morgellons Disease Research

Page updated: 23rd January 2011