Lotion.

"Calamine lotion is kind of a similar approach to aluminum acetate soaks with a drying effect, and it is essentially a drying lotion so you can be very soothing because that oozy weepy stuff ends up being very itchy."

"Calamine lotion is a shaker lotion. It's a suspension of zinc oxide, calamine mineral, which is zinc, as well as glycerin, water, calcium hydroxide, and bentonite clay. It's very soothing. It also helps to dry out the skin. So any kind of skin rash that is oozy, weepy, calamine lotion might be a suggested remedy. Calamine lotion also has a cooling effect because as the water in calamine lotion evaporates off the surface of the skin, evaporative water losses help to draw heat away, cool the body. It also has astringent properties, anti-itch properties and antimicrobial properties. Plus, it creates this kind of protective barrier on the skin surface. One of the advantages of just plain calamine lotion is that it can be applied to a large surface area. Calamine lotion has been used for a very long time. It's safe to use in pregnancy, breastfeeding, in children, and in infants."

"As the water in calamine lotion evaporates off the surface of the skin, evaporative water losses help to draw heat away and cool the body. It also has astringent properties, anti-itch properties, and antimicrobial properties. Plus, it creates this kind of protective barrier on the skin surface. One of the advantages of plain calamine lotion is that it can be applied to a large surface area. Calamine lotion has been used for a very long time. It's safe to use in pregnancy, breastfeeding, in children, and in infants, although you have to be really careful and check the ingredients because what I'm talking about here is bland calamine lotion. There are other formulations out there that add certain ingredients like benzocaine, pramoxine, menthol, camphor, for example, which are not something that you would necessarily want to use in an infant. But bland calamine lotion is very safe. You'll often hear people recommend it for poison ivy, poison oak rashes because they are super itchy and they tend to ooze and weep. The drying properties of calamine lotion are desirable to dry up that fluid and it has the anti-itch effect. Plus, it's cooling."

"The discomfort of shingles can be alleviated with a little calamine lotion, but it has downsides for sure. It's a drying lotion, so it can dry your skin out quite a bit. The annoying thing about calamine lotion is that while it seems like a great option for issues that crop up in skin folds like under the breast, the problem is it often gets a very gritty texture in those areas and ends up being quite abrasive, which ultimately can aggravate your cause. Also, calamine lotion doesn't work out well for everyone. Some people find it very irritating and it just ends up jeopardizing the healing process. Then there's the pink color, which is not something that most people want to be sporting during the day. As the water evaporates, the powdery residue left behind has that drying effect, but sometimes the powder clumps together and can be abrasive. So you need to be careful if you use it and then choose to apply it again throughout the day."

"It's a drying lotion, so it can dry your skin out quite a bit. The annoying thing about calamine lotion is while it seems like a great option for a lot of issues that crop up in the skin folds like under the breast, the problem with calamine lotion in the skin folds like under the arms, under the breast, and the abdominal folds is it often gets a very gritty texture to it in those areas and ends up being quite abrasive, which ultimately can aggravate your cause. Also, calamine lotion doesn't work out well for everyone. Some people find it very irritating and it just ends up jeopardizing the healing process. Then there's the pink color. It's not something that most people want to be sporting during the day. As the water evaporates, the powdery residue left behind has that drying effect, but sometimes the powder itself clumps together and can be abrasive."