Calamine Lotion: a Guru Score of 65% from 2 skincare experts

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"Calamine lotion day in and day out on your skin is going to wreak havoc. It'll take a long time to fix. Calamine lotion is not meant for mass use, it's meant for small areas of irritation, not to be used as a primer."

Common questions

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What is Calamine Lotion?

A topical lotion containing calamine and zinc oxide, designed to soothe itching, reduce inflammation, and dry weepy skin irritations such as insect bites, poison ivy, and minor rashes.

Is Calamine Lotion worth it?

The gurus mostly approve it, but with enough reservations to keep it in the middle at a Guru Score of 65%.

What is Calamine Lotion's Guru Score?

Calamine Lotion holds a Guru Score of 65%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 2 independent expert reviewers we have collected.