How I heal...eczema

For most of her childhood, teens and early twenties, Rebecca Bonneteau was covered head to toe in eczema—red, inflamed, itchy skin that would crack open with the slightest touch or movement. The itching was intense and constant, sending her into a state where she couldn’t stop scratching, leaving a trail of skin flakes behind.

The countless creams, ointments and emollients she was prescribed did little but turn all her white clothes and sheets yellow, yet she relied on them for much of her life, to the point where she’d become panicked if a pharmaceutical company decided to reformulate a product she was using.

“Eczema very much defined who I was,” says Rebecca.

This lifelong struggle with eczema—and witnessing her parents at a loss for how to help her—is the reason why Rebecca, in her early thirties, decided to swap her career as a business analyst for one as a nutritional therapist and naturopath focusing on helping others with eczema, especially