Breakouts on face from laundry detergent.?

Question

I have never had allergic reactions to anything before. I am in my mid 30s and have been getting breakouts on my face and pretty much all over, especially my arms. They come and go and itch just slightly, but not too bad. The ones on my face and even around my hairline and neck stay a little longer. I want to start process of elimination for allergies first, because I do not have any medical insurance right now to afford a bunch of testing. My question is, can laundry det. make you even break out on your face? I have been using the same kind for a little over a year now and that is about when this all started. I never even thought of that, because I have never been allergic to anything before.

Answer 1

consider perhaps adult acne. i used to have the same problem. acne can be itchy too. it occurs on face, back, chest, arms, and/or legs. for me, it came out of the blue - i thought it was an allergy, and it wasn't. i also never suffered from acne before in my live. i find the OTC acne products to help tremendously, and the itchiness goes away.
however, if you truly believe it's an allergy, try using benadrill (?sp) cream - that should clear it up. then begin trying to figure out the source.

Answer 2

Laundry Detergent Breakouts

Answer 3

I find that I develop a rash from not only the detergent, but any kind of fabric softeners and soaps as well and the rash appears anywhere the cloth touches my skin. As someone else said in their response, this could be from your pillows and I have found that drying my face and hair with towels makes my face and scalp breakout.

What you can do is to switch laundry detergent and make sure that any laundry you do is rinsed well. If that doesn't help, try switching shampoo, conditioner and any soap you may use one at a time to see if that helps.

Best of luck!

Answer 4

My grandchildren have allergies and my daughter was using Tide to wash her clothes and found out by elimination that the children were allergic to the laundry detergent so she had to change. Allergies can come out of "nowhere" at times. I never had allergies until I moved to a different city. If it isn't the detergent you can go to an allergist to have tests to see what you are allergic to.

Answer 5

NATURAL ACNE PROTOCOL
1/ Never, ever touch your face.
2/ Use 3 facecloths to wash your face, one to soap on, one to soap off with very hot water, one to rinse off with ice cold water, in that order, once a day.
3/ If you are under 18 take 5,000 IU of vitamin A once a day with a full meal
4/ If you are over 18 take 5,000 IU of vitamin A twice a day with a full meal.
Do not get pregnant while taking vitamin A. Do not take any more, like Accutane, it will stop you growing.
5/ Never, ever. pick, squeeze or pop your spot. Read number 1 again.
6/ Do this for 90 days.
7/ Invest in a brand new pillow and 2 new or more pillow cases to �double bag' your pillow. HOT wash every couple of days.
Source:
A bit of advice given to me as a teenager, a bit of science as I am studying allergic reactions and vitamin A is a part of that. A bit of research: I sat in a lecture at the back and watched the acne prone pick at their faces, those with the worse acne touched their faces 32 times in an hour, the clearest complexions didn't touch their faces even once. I have circumstantial evidence that acne is the result of dermatophyte transfer from hands to face...where it does not get washed off and is well fed by hormones, sweat a
nd oil...just a hypothesis... But it would explain why vitamin A is so effective as vitamin causes skin to remove dermatophytes.

The secret is never to touch the spots

Tips on how to treat acne and achieve perfect clear skin in as little as 7 days?

Answer 6

If you think it is the laundry detergent try using dreft laundry detergent it is specially made for babies clothing so it is very sensitive so you probably won't have a reaction to it. Also if you find out it isn't laundry detergent it might be the soap you use to wash with. My husband gets a rash and breaks out if he uses Axe body wash so try changing what soap you use.

Answer 7

Every supermarket has a section with what they usually call "green" or eco-friendly laundry detergents and other cleansers. I just bought one put out by Ajax and it worked very well. I don't know about skin problems from bleach and other chemicals. I've never had it happen to me and I bleach my sheets and bath towels on a regular basis. It really all depends on how sensitive your skin is. I prefer natural and/or unscenteds because I'm sensitive to smells.

Answer 8

Try changing over to as many hypoallergenic/sensitive skin items as you can. Dreft, Purex hypoallergenic, or Arm & Hammer dye free are good laundry det. Make sure you wash your bedsheets/pillowcases with the Also, since you have rash come and go on your body, try switching to Dove soap for sensitive skin. Be careful of nail polishes, perfumes, lotions. Try to convert to hypoallergenic and see if it improves.

Answer 9

Oh, yeah. I've become convinced that something happens to the body in the late twenties and early thirties - many of the people I know (including me) have gained or lost allergies or other medical conditions about that age.
Skin reactions don't have to be limited to direct contact, although they are often associated with it. How about shampoo or soap, too?

Answer 10

your body changes something like every 7 years & you CAN develop new allergies. Try using a detergent that's less harsh, maybe even try one designed for babies clothing.