Children’s lifestyles have also changed with today’s kids spending over 90% of their time indoors, so the environments of their schools and homes have a dramatic impact on their health, including their skin. Seasonal changes, central heating, air conditioning and hot water can all cause discomfort, making your child’s skin more delicate and prone to itchiness. Other factors that can affect the condition of their skin include not drying properly after washing and the use of bar soap.

Here are some useful tips from Dr Sarah Jarvis’s tips to help keep your child’s skin healthy:

1. Heat, cold, too much exposure to water or a dry atmosphere (central heating dries out the air) can all make dry skin worse. So can wind – be especially careful with hands and faces, which are exposed to the elements
2. Avoid normal soaps and detergents for all children, but especially if they have dry skin. Both of these can strip the oils from your child’s skin, making it more prone to dryness and itching
3. Use a hypoallergenic soap substitute approved for children to wash their skin
4. Get into the habit of applying unscented or hypoallergenic moisturisers regularly. If you start early, your child may rather like having moisturiser massaged in
5. Your child’s skin is very vulnerable to the sun, and getting burnt hugely increases his risk of skin cancer in later life. It also dries the skin out. Always use a high factor (at least factor 30) sunscreen, and reapply it often, especially after swimming

The bods at Sanex have now created a new product based on their understanding of your child’s skin and how it works. It’s called Dermo Kids Bodywash and Foam Bath – a pediatrician approved, hypoallergenic and pH balanced formulation that actively works with your child’s developing skin to gently cleanse and help keep it healthy and nurtured.

Sanex Dermo Kids Bodywash and Foam Bath joins a comprehensive family of skin friendly bath and shower products for adults – all designed to actively work with your skin to help keep it healthy and naturally protected.

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The Walk for Skin 2009

Other walks will take place as follows:

Glasgow – Mugdock Country Park, 31st May
Manchester – Heaton Park, 17th May
Midlands – Coombe Country Park, 17th May
Cardiff – Bute Park, 17th May
Newcastle – Tyne and Riverside Country Park, 17th May
Cheddar Gorge – Cheddar, 17th May
Edinburgh – Holyrood Park, 31st May
Dundee – Camperdown Park, 31st May
Southampton – The Common, 31st May
Leeds – Temple Newsam, 7th June

Everyone’s favourite Essex girl, Denise Van Outen, is getting behind the Walk for Skin to help raise as much money as possible to fund the British Skin Foundation’s, the only charity in the UK dedicated to skin disease research.

Getting behind a charity fundraising event is always worthwhile, but there is another reason why Denise is supporting the Walk for Skin:

“My Nan lived to the ripe old age of 83, but she did get skin cancer in her later years, which really affected my attitude to looking after my skin and is the reason why I’m supporting the 2009 Walk for Skin”

Healthy skin brand Sanex supports the Walk for Skin and has been working closely with the British Skin Foundation since 2005, to help promote the importance of healthy skin.

Visit www.walkforskin.org.uk (this will be updated later this month) for more information on the nearest walk to you and to register to take part. All walkers will also receive a walker’s pack including a Walk for Skin bag, Sanex healthy skin goodies for the whole family and fun stuff for the kids.

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