Victoria's special skincare, toothpaste and supplements

Having very sensitive skin means Victoria not only has to watch her diet but also have special daily skin care.

I want to say that Vic has used brands like Cetaphil, Eubos and Polytar before and I have no complaints over that, but just the list below are what she's currently using. Please feel free to recommend and feedback if any.

Since reading on Moogoo products in the newspaper, I have bought their shampoo and milky wash for Vic to use. Moogoo products are chemical-free (that means, no parabens or laureth sulphates) and environmentally friendly. They claim to have the same skin irritation score as water. That means, if you are ok with water and not allergic to it, then you'll be ok with moogoo : )

She just recently finished her first bottle of Moogoo milk wash (500g cost RM69 before discount, officially available at all Caring Pharmacies, but I discovered this also at Babyland SS2 PJ) which lasted her around 5 months (admittedly she's the only one who uses this, and William has only used a few pumps only because I ran out of his J&J shower gel).

After bath, or anytime during the day, normally during the night, Vic puts on Bio Oil, which is to reduce the redness and scars caused by the ezcema and little accidents on her feet. Occassionally, I use Protopic oitment on her inner arm folds if the itch returns and causes redness. I find Protopic very effective. Besides Bio Oil and Protopic, I rotate these with Virgin Coconut Oil too, this one as a gift from Popo.

From left: Olive Oil for the hair, Bio Oil for skin, Bencoolen Virgin Coconut Oil


For the Queen's hair, we use good old traditional olive oil (not the Indian coconut oil from glass bottles that I used when I was Vic's age, the smell is unbearable) since she was a toddler.

For her toothpaste, eversince Dr Wong detected a slight allergy to mint, Vic has been on Chicco's raspberry flavored toothpaste for 3 years now. The last time she changed to Colgate based on his recommendation, her lips became itchy and swollen, either due to the toothpaste or something else. So we changed her back to the Chicco's toothpaste.

As for diet, she's still abstaining from eggs and yeast (includes all types of mushrooms, fungus) and any foods containing or that may have cross-contamination of these (including commercial non-organic pasta and spaghetti).

She's still on daily probiotics, currently now Lactogg best taken with an empty stomach 3 hours after her last meal, and 1 hour before the next.

Almost every other day, she's taking half a table spoon of food supplement from Be-Well manufactured by a British company based in Peterborough. More info here. This was recommended by Dr Wong after we voiced our concern that she MAY be lacked of certain nutritients due to her restricted diet, but of course her size and height definite shows otherwise.

She was on Scott's Emulsion cod liver oil capsules (with Omega 3) but now that that has finished, we are looking out for a good brand of fish oil made with/by natural triglyceride. Anyone knows any, please recommend.

In a way, I'm thankful she's followed her Daddy's genes when it comes to swallowing capsules because she can just chew on them, whereas mummy would have puked even before the capsule made its way down my throat.