Stress and Your Skin
Stress is often blamed as a major obstacle to maintaining healthy skin, interfering with the body's efforts to keep the skin in good, supple, effective condition.
Welcome to Be More You.
Our Balmonds Blog.
Time to grab a cuppa and take a moment for yourself to discover and get inspired.
mental health and skin
Can Anxiety Cause Rashes?
Work is stressful, you’re worried about money, and now your skin is breaking out in hives! Can it all be connected?!
Does Eczema Cause Depression?
This week, for Mental Health Awareness Week, we welcome guest blogger Simone Ivatts to Balmonds, to talk about how living with a chronic skin condition can affect one’s mental health.
Can Stress Cause Scabs On The Scalp?
Can stress cause a scabby scalp?! Quick answer - yes it can! Read more...
How Does Eczema Affect Romantic & Sexual Relationships?
Regular contributor Simone Ivatts writes this week on the sensitive - and under-discussed - subject of how eczema can affect sexual and romantic relationships. --- As those of us who...
My Eczema & Me: Living With BDD And Eczema
Body Dysmorphic Disorder is an incredibly debilitating disorder. And when you’ve got a chronic condition such as eczema to add to the mix, well boy that just makes things a whole...
Can Stress Cause Itchy Rashes?
It’s not always external irritants that cause the rashes associated with eczema and other chronic skin problems; sometimes the trigger is psychological rather than physical.
Growing Up With Itchy Skin In The Summer
This week, we’re talking to Lula Balmond-Nightingale, who not only works here in the Purepotions office but is actually the reason it all began! When Lula was a little baby suffering...