For you HC cream users... question..

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It seems like we're going to have a hard time finding a cream,

ointment or gel that has not one undesirable ingredient in it. I

found these as the inactive ingredients of Corticool:

Inactive Ingredients

Benzethonium Chloride; Benzophenone 4; Hypromellose; Menthol;

Peppermint Oil; Polysorbate 20; Propylene Glycol; Purified Water; SD

Alcohol 40-B (20% by Weight); Sodium Gluconate; Sodium Metabisulfite

Better than the ointment b/c no petrolatum? I like the marketing

stuff about better, quicker absorption if it's true.

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> You want to avoid petroleum and mineral oil but if there is only one bad

> contaminant in there it looks like a pretty good brand to me.

>

> Cheri

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> I found ointment today at Rite-Aid with only aloe extract and white

> petrolatum as inactive ingredients. Sound OK or do we need to avoid

> the petrolatum?

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[Guest guest]

I found this: CortiCool 1% Hydrocortisone Gel (1/32 oz pkts/144 ct box) at

this link:

http://www.tophand.peachhost.com/ct_PRccl144bx-or.htm

Cherie

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you

learn.--C.S.

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> > > I got the Corticool gel from Walgreens. But, the inactive

> ingredients

> > > showed:

> > >

> > > hypromellose, menthol, polyoxyl castor oil, propylene glycol,

> purified

> > > water, SD alcohol,

> > >

>

> Googling that product...found that it comes in a box with 144

> individual packets....customer service is closed but when they open I

> am going to find out how many oz in an individual packet...

>

> http://www.mfasco.com/product_info.php/first-aid/itch-relief/p/cor

ticool-1%25-hydrocortisone-anti-itch-gel-individual-packets-144-box/cPath/10

_292/products_id/4075

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Do you want vaseline sticky skin? LOL.

Petrolatum doesn't absorb well at all and WILL transfer to your clothes

and anything you touch. It was great for my large eczema areas, as I

could dampen all the eczema skin, and slather on the ointment to keep

the skin moist and deliver cortisone at the same time.

During my bad eczema, I had to use the very heavy creams and the

ointment, so much that I had to boil my nightshirts with some dish

liquid, and then boil them again to rinse before they could go in the

washing machine! And they still felt and looked greasy.

sol

jasrich wrote:

> I found ointment today at Rite-Aid with only aloe extract and white

> petrolatum as inactive ingredients. Sound OK or do we need to avoid

> the petrolatum?

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

My Corticool gel had different ingredients. Mine had these inactive

ingredients:

hypromellose, menthol, polyoxyl castor oil, propylene glycol, purified water,

SD

alcohol,

NO bothersome ingredients. So, there must be two Corticools at Walgreens. Like

I mentioned before, the absorption was SO MUCH quicker. And, like some weak

adrenal types, I am very sensitive to unnatural odors. This gel had no

bothersome order that the Equate had for me.

Pamela

jasrich wrote: It seems like

we're going to have a hard time finding a cream,

ointment or gel that has not one undesirable ingredient in it. I

found these as the inactive ingredients of Corticool:

Inactive Ingredients

Benzethonium Chloride; Benzophenone 4; Hypromellose; Menthol;

Peppermint Oil; Polysorbate 20; Propylene Glycol; Purified Water; SD

Alcohol 40-B (20% by Weight); Sodium Gluconate; Sodium Metabisulfite

Better than the ointment b/c no petrolatum? I like the marketing

stuff about better, quicker absorption if it's true.

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[Guest guest]

The Corticool gel I got with the hypromellose, menthol, polyoxyl castor oil,

propylene glycol, purified water, SD alcohol ingredients was in a 1.5 oz tube.

Pamela

cr8zytasia wrote: > >

> > I got the Corticool gel from Walgreens. But, the inactive

ingredients

> > showed:

> >

> > hypromellose, menthol, polyoxyl castor oil, propylene glycol,

purified

> > water, SD alcohol,

> >

Googling that product...found that it comes in a box with 144

individual packets....customer service is closed but when they open I

am going to find out how many oz in an individual packet...

http://www.mfasco.com/product_info.php/first-aid/itch-relief/p/corticool-1%25-hy\

drocortisone-anti-itch-gel-individual-packets-144-box/cPath/10_292/products_id/4\

075

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Tried the ointment and didn't like it b/c of the grease factor just as

you say. Gel sounds like a winner to me. Off to Walgreen today I guess.

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> Do you want vaseline sticky skin? LOL.

> Petrolatum doesn't absorb well at all and WILL transfer to your clothes

> and anything you touch.

[Guest guest]

I went to Walgreens and got the Corticool and it has all of the

ingredients that I originally posted below which include the ones that

Pamela posted, but also the others. It is in a purple box, says

" corticool " in big lower case letters on the tube, and the name of the

company is Tec Labs. I didn't see another there. Here is a link to

the company's page showing what I bought - http://tinyurl.com/2mdvp6 .

Are we all talking about the same product or is there another one

with the same name and with fewer contaminants?

Has

anyone tried gel? Seems like it would rub in and maybe absorb even

> easier than cream. Walgreen one with these ingredients:

>

> Active Ingredients

> Hydrocortisone 1%

>

> Ingredients

> Benzethonium Chloride , Benzophenone 4 , Hypromellose , Menthol ,

> Peppermint Oil , Polysorbate 20 , Propylene Glycol , Purified Water ,

> SD Alcohol 40-B 20% by Weight , Sodium Gluconate , Sodium

Metabisulfite

>

> http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jsp?CATID=100949 & id=prod4464.

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Well, that's queer. My box is purple also with lower-cased letters on the tube,

and the name of the company is Tec Labs. But, my box stated it has only the

Inactive Ingredients I posted. NO mention of the inactive ingredients you

stated.

Pamela

jasrich wrote: I went to

Walgreens and got the Corticool and it has all of the

ingredients that I originally posted below which include the ones that

Pamela posted, but also the others. It is in a purple box, says

" corticool " in big lower case letters on the tube, and the name of the

company is Tec Labs. I didn't see another there. Here is a link to

the company's page showing what I bought - http://tinyurl.com/2mdvp6 .

Are we all talking about the same product or is there another one

with the same name and with fewer contaminants?

Has

anyone tried gel? Seems like it would rub in and maybe absorb even

> easier than cream. Walgreen one with these ingredients:

>

> Active Ingredients

> Hydrocortisone 1%

>

> Ingredients

> Benzethonium Chloride , Benzophenone 4 , Hypromellose , Menthol ,

> Peppermint Oil , Polysorbate 20 , Propylene Glycol , Purified Water ,

> SD Alcohol 40-B 20% by Weight , Sodium Gluconate , Sodium

Metabisulfite

>

> http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jsp?CATID=100949 & id=prod4464.

>

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[Guest guest]

Could you and compare expiry dates to see who has the newer

product? One way or the other the company has either changed their

labelling or they have changed the prodcut formula.

sol

Pamela wrote:

> Well, that's queer. My box is purple also with lower-cased letters on the

tube, and the name of the company is Tec Labs. But, my box stated it has only

the Inactive Ingredients I posted. NO mention of the inactive ingredients you

stated.

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[Guest guest]

Couldn't find an expiration date on mine.

Pamela

sol wrote: Could you

and compare expiry dates to see who has the newer

product? One way or the other the company has either changed their

labelling or they have changed the prodcut formula.

sol

Pamela wrote:

> Well, that's queer. My box is purple also with lower-cased letters on the

tube, and the name of the company is Tec Labs. But, my box stated it has only

the Inactive Ingredients I posted. NO mention of the inactive ingredients you

stated.

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Expiry on the tube that I just bought today is 01/08. Maybe something

has changed in the meantime. I might have to take mine back now and

find a different Walgreens tomorrow.

> > Well, that's queer. My box is purple also with lower-cased

letters on the tube, and the name of the company is Tec Labs. But, my

box stated it has only the Inactive Ingredients I posted. NO mention

of the inactive ingredients you stated.

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[Guest guest]

It's on the end of tube, not on the box.

> > Well, that's queer. My box is purple also with lower-cased

letters on the tube, and the name of the company is Tec Labs. But, my

box stated it has only the Inactive Ingredients I posted. NO mention

of the inactive ingredients you stated.

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[Guest guest]

OK, mine has 8/08. How do you like your version, ?

jasrich wrote: It's on the end

of tube, not on the box.

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I'm interested to know what you find out.

sol

jasrich wrote:

> Didn't use it last night. Probably going to chase down another

> Walgreens with fresher stock and look at the ingredients.

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Forgot to add, you could also just contact the mfr?

sol

jasrich wrote:

> Didn't use it last night. Probably going to chase down another

> Walgreens with fresher stock and look at the ingredients.

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