Just make sure you wash it off on the day of your radiotherapy and do not apply more before you have radiation as it’s a thick cream and the machine will assume you have thick skin and will increase the amount of radiation you receive.

Hairstylist Clara Leonard tells me that it’s helped her treat curling iron burns on more than one occasion.The cream contained a now-famous mixture of trolamine, stearic acid, paraffin and avocado oil, and works to regenerate and hydrate skin tissue. It tests even the most romantic among us with out-of-the-blue blizzards and late trains on above-ground platforms. One such video says that people can “up their moisturising game” by using the cream, and this user says that she now includes the cream in her usual skin routine.

This cream is used for 1st and 2nd degree burns, non-infected skin wounds and secondary erythema (redness on dry skin due to a dermatological lesion) related to radiotherapy treatments.That’s the “ cataplasm” effect of oily products applied on the skin: the product is so occlusive that it prevents the natural hydration of the skin from evaporating too quickly.