A while back I asked you, my readers, for advice for a friend with a child who was experiencing severe eczema. You all had such helpful advice. Thank you. It was helpful (though slightly overwhelming) to hear the many causes of eczema and it was helpful to realize what a complicated issue it can be. But your success stories in fighting it were encouraging.
Several of you mentioned the hazelwood necklaces from hazalaid.com. Enough of you mentioned it that my curiosity was piqued. So I started reading. I was surprised at the reviews of these products with parents claiming that the necklaces helped their children with skin problems, teething, and other issues. The more I read, the more I realized that maybe I shouldn’t laugh at the idea of a necklace helping eczema (which I admit……I did at first). Since they weren’t expensive, I thought it was worth a try. I mean, it’s a whole LOT easier to wear a necklace than it is to cut out all known allergies to mankind (or so it can feel like when fighting issues like eczema).
I contacted the owner of hazelaid.com and explained that I was interested in trying out her necklaces. She kindly sent some necklaces for my family to try and sent some at cost to a couple of friends as well.
Here is Hazelaid’s back story.
Hazelaid was born when our family was introduced to the amazing healing properties of hazelwood products. These necklaces, bracelets, and other jewelry made with pieces of wood from the hazelnut tree have the unique property of absorbing the excess acid produced in our bodies when it is in contact with our skin.
We first heard about this jewelry when our third child was very little and was suffering from severe eczema. We had tried many different things to alleviate her symptoms and nothing really seemed to help. A friend told us about how her son’s severe and painful acid reflux had been dramatically helped by wearing a hazelwood necklace and that it could help with our daughter’s eczema since the root cause of both is often related to excess acidity in the body. We were skeptical but intrigued. We decided we had nothing to lose by giving it a try. Within a couple weeks of wearing the necklace and using the hazelwood zinc oxide ointment, her skin was dramatically improved and she was also spitting up a lot less. We were amazed! After reading all the testimonials about these wonderful products, we were no longer surprised by our experience…these results seemed to be the norm, and then some!
Hazelwood’s healing property is linked to it’s ability to help make the body alkaline, eliminating acidic caused health conditions, such as eczema. I’ve actually never heard of the connection of an acidic body and eczema before. And I don’t really understand how the hazelwood works, but it does seem to work for many people and that’s the important thing. When I first told my husband about these necklaces…. (okay, back up. The first time I told him about hazelwood necklaces, we were sharing mirthful comments on the topic)….when I was telling him about the results that many people have using these products my husband’s common sense response was, “It doesn’t cost much to try. It’s much easier than anything else to do. Why not give it a try?” My thought, “If it doesn’t work, you’d still have a cute necklace”.
So, I kept reading. I also noticed that Hazelaid carried another type of necklace made out of baltic amber. This necklace especially interested me. How it works made sense to me.
Baltic amber is not a “stone” but a natural resin. As it warms with the body’s natural temperature, Baltic amber jewelry releases healing oils containing succinic acid which are absorbed into the skin and then into the bloodstream.
Baltic Amber has some of the highest concentrations of succinic acid found in nature, and this is what makes it so special. Succinic acid is a natural component of plant and animal tissues, and its presence in the human body is beneficial in many ways.
Commonly known as “teething jewelry” in Europe, Baltic amber has been a natural remedy for pain relief for hundreds of years.
Amber is also known to reduce inflammation of the throat, ear and stomach and to fight irritation, infections and respiratory disease as it dramatically improves the body’s immunity. Natural amber beaded necklaces are a completely non-invasive remedy for side effects associated with teething, such as lack of appetite, redness in the cheeks, swollen gums, diaper rashes, upset tummies, earache, fevers and colds. Baltic amber is also a natural analgesic that will calm your child and is recognized by allopathic medicine specialists as antispasmodic and anti-fever. Many adults report improvement of arthritis discomfort and carpal tunnel pain in their hands when wearing amber on the wrists. hazelaid.com
I noticed in the testimonial section on their website that the baltic amber necklaces helped some people with headaches, which I was then experiencing. This is also the type of necklace used for teething pain. I noticed in a couple of Amazon reviews that some parents were so enthusiastic that they felt that every baby should have a baltic amber necklace for teething pain!
Who tried the necklaces:
Me: Baltic Amber (for headaches)
Elena (my 4 year old): A mixed baltic amber and hazelwood necklace for general immune boost
Aria (my infant) Baltic Amber for teething
Wes (Nephew): Hazelwood necklace for eczema
Friend’s daughter: Hazelwood necklace for eczema
Me: I started wearing my baltic amber necklace non-stop, only taking it off for a shower. The first week I didn’t have any headaches, but that could have just been chance. I continued to wear it with no headaches. Then one day I had on a scarf and I got a headache. I was talking to my sister and said, “Well, so much for this necklace keeping my headaches away. I am definitely getting one.” I then reached up to to my neck and felt under my scarf…….no necklace. The one day I had gotten a headache, I had forgotten to put my necklace on after my shower! It happened once again. I thought I had it on, got a headache, and then realized I never put it back on after my shower. I then went through a week or two of very little sleep and got a few mild tired headaches with the necklace on, but they seemed much more mild then normal. Then after all of my recipe testing and feeling better, I stopped getting headaches altogether, and didn’t need to to depend on the necklace helping me. Bottom line: It did help me personally from getting headaches or from having as severe of headaches.
Elena: We got her necklace just as an overall immune booster (and I knew she would love it because it’s cute). She thought that it was very pretty and does love it. I thought that it was neat that she could have a piece of jewelry that could have beneficial properties! Apparently even jewelry can have health benefits.
Aria: I wanted to try the baltic amber necklace for her teething as I noticed a few reviews from parents saying that it not only seemed to help with teething pain, but also with drooling. Aria was drooling massively at the time. She was going through bib after bib all day long. It was ridiculous. So I was hopeful that the necklace would help. In our case, she still drooled when wearing the necklace. It did seem like she wasn’t drooling as much sometimes, but she was still drooling. I also realized that she was the wrong baby to see if it helped with teething pain because she has never really exhibited any signs of teething pain that were obvious. I think that while her drooling was mostly related to teething, she also just likes to drool and seems to purposely drool. So it wasn’t necessarily related to teething or pain in teething. So in her case, I felt like it was too hard to distinguish whether it helped her or not.
Wes: Wes has dealt with eczema on his face for a while now. My sister has been able to pin point several foods that bother him and make it worse. However it was still there. The hazelwood has significantly helped him. It’s pretty exciting! He will still break out if he eats something that bothers him, but most of the time his face looks great! A success for sure.
My friend: Unfortunately my friend who has a daughter with more severe problems didn’t notice anything significant. It is true that not everyone with skin issues respond, most likely, I am told because their root issues are not acidic based. So that could be true for her daughter. She also wasn’t positive that she gave it a long enough trial, but it seems most likely that the hazelwood in her case will not have the results it did for my nephew.
All in all, while obviously not a cure all, we had enough results using these products that I felt I would like to bring them to your attention. Perhaps some of you could be helped by them too! If any of my readers have had experience using these products, I would love to hear your results!
Meanwhile, Hazelaid has kindly agreed to giveaway two gift certificates for $25 dollars. To enter the giveaway, leave a comment below explaining why you would like to try Hazelaid’s products. This giveaway runs until 8/11/11. Winner announced 8/12. The two winners will be picked randomly using random.org
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LGoin
I would love to try these necklaces! I totally buy into the Baltic amber. We borrowed one for a friend for my second child and it helped him a lot. I think he would still benefit from wearing one!
Rebecca
I would love to try a necklace. I have chronic pain & eczema & my baby is teething!
Stephanie
My poor baby girl Olwyn is teething terribly right now and I would love a natural way to help her. I would love to try the necklace out and buy more for friends in the future.
LOVE your site, by the way. =)
cali
interesting…. I would be willing to try it. My son has some excema on his back that flares up from time to time so the hazelwood would be the one I would like.
Jessie
I have bad headaches from time to time. And also some stomach issues. it’d be great to try.
Sarah B.
I would love to win a hazelaid gift certificate to buy a necklace for my son who is experiencing a lot of pain teething.
JennyA
It would be awesome if this could help me with the intestinal inflamation I have been experiencing since surgery! Thanx for the giveaway opportunity, hope I’m blessed with one of the certificates…
JIll
I would love to try the necklace for headaches!
Sarah Gollner
My daughter Eleonora who was born at 25 weeks is now 2 1/2 and is struggling with excema type skin issues. I would love to try a necklace for her!
Alyssa W.
I would really like for my sister to be able to try this, as she has some skin issues. Thanks!
BTW, I love your blog!
~Alyssa
Laura Green
The necklaces are really cute and with health benefits to boot, I’d love to try one.
Jill
Super interesting! I would be interested to try it for my daughter–she has a tendency towards skin problems (acne) from food allergies (multiple). She’s doing GAPS now and is detoxing and feeling icky (intro stage)–I wonder if this would help with die off? Everyone in my family has something or other (whether it be intermittent neck pain, heart burn, shoulder pain, etc…) that would be interesting to see how it affected.
Amy
This is very interesting, I’ve never heard of such a thing! I would be interested in the one for my son’s eczema and also for my self for thyroid cancer and carpal tunnel.
adam dieffenbach
I would like very much to try this for a rash I recently started experiencing on my face, diagnosed by my doctor as sebaceous dermatitis. It’s really annoying and people are always asking me what’s going on with my red spot in the middle of my forehead. Maybe the hazel will help.
Karen Baldwin
I have been battling eczema for 2 years now and would love to give these necklaces a try, thanks for the opportunity!
Jen
I have a teething son, and would love to try the baltic amber for him!
Christina
I would love to try a necklace on my daughter who has eczema and I haven’t been able to identify any food triggers.
Kase
I would like to buy a necklace for myself and my brother 🙂
Liz
I’d like to try the Hazelwood necklace for eczema. I started getting eczema on every part of my body around March 2010. None of the doctors have helped really. By God’s grace, removing wheat from my diet has helped significantly. I still have it on my hands daily. It’s no fun. I’d be interested to try it. Thanks for the info and the giveaway!
Sheila
my daughter has mild eczema on her face…nuf said
crazy4boys
I have one son with really bad eczema. He wears one of these necklaces and I wear one for reflux and headaches. But at night I give him mine to wrap around his ankle. On the leg he wraps the extra necklace there is improvement the next day. Every night he switches which leg it goes on. I’d love to be able to get him some anklets or another necklace or two so that he can heal more quickly…and so that I can wear mine again!
Trinnie
I have two of my sons who have eczema quite severly. We have made quite a few diet changes but they both still struggle. My husband also has issues with gout and we know that is due to ph issues it would be interesting to see if these would make a difference.
kitblue
This is great news and I can’t wait to pass it on. I don’t know that it would benefit me (unless it helps an itchy scalp) but I have another idea.
My chiropractor advocates an alkaline diet and preventive chiropractic treatments. He has monthly meetings where his patients can bring others to hear the message. He also has a library of books and music that patients can borrow (sign out). I would give the necklace to my chiropractor to loan to his patients. Once there are a few testimonials, either the chiropractor would order more to loan or patients would not only buy their own but also spread the word.
Lauren
I have never heard of any of the beneficial properties of hazelnut wood or Baltic amber before! Very intriguing! Would love to give it a try!
Melinda
This is so interesting! I suffer from eczema, and have all my life. It’s amazing to think that a necklace might help me. And a pretty one too! I would love to receive one.
Melinda
Jay
I have a teething son who would like some relief 🙁
Liz D
My husband and 2 year old daughter suffer from eczema. I would love to get to try this remedy out on them. It would be nice to be able to fight eczema without the use of steroids.
Sarah Laughlin
I would love to try the Hazelwood for my son’s eczema and the Baltic Amber for my teething daughter. Thanks!
Barb
I would love to try a necklace for my daughter who struggles with skin issues.
Also…love all the wonderful information you give us on your blog! Thanks.
Barb
I would love to try a necklace for my daughter who struggles with skin issues.
Also….love all the wonderful information you give us on your blog! Thanks.
Jessica T.
I would love to try the amber necklace with my little three-month-old daughter. She’s already started showing signs of teething pain and I’d love to see if these would help her!
Angela
My husband is a cancer survivor and we follow an alkaline diet. I think this necklace would be great for him to wear for an extra boost of “alkalinity”. He was diagnosed in Nov of 2009, had about 9 mos of treatment and has now been cancer free for over a year. 🙂
Thanks,
Angela
Jean
I’ve suffered with psoriasis for 20+ years now and it seems to be getting worse and spreading. I would be so grateful to give this a try. Thanks!
Yvonne Speck
Sounds crazy but I’m open to trying it. I have moderate eczema, which has mostly gone away since incorporating kefir into my diet.
Suzanne
I had read your blog post a while back about eczema and saw the posts about Hazelaid. I have been wanting to try these for a while sice then. My daughter get bad bouts with eczema since she was an infant. I suffer from migraine headaches myself, so I would be so thrilled to be a recipient of Hazelaid necklaces!
Rachel
I’d love to try the hazelnut necklace for my son’s excema, and an amber/hazelbut bracelet for my sore wrist/ excema hand.
LOVE your website by the way– just discovered it while googling coconut ice cream recipes! 🙂
Cori
I would love to try this! Even if it doesn’t work, they are quite pretty.
Hausbus
I have horrible migraines associated with vomiting that last several days. I have tried several natural remedies which have helped some, but would be very interested in trying this necklace to see what happens.
Vanessa
I’d love to try one because they look great and I’m curious as to how it will work!
Tara
I would love to try a necklace on my young daughter who struggles with eczema. Thanks for sharing this information.
Kedesh
Thank you for this post! It explains a lot. Two friends of mine have purchased amber necklaces for their teething toddlers and have claimed it has helped them. I, assuming it was amber stone and being a Christian wary of people claiming crystals and precious stones to have powers, was very suspicious and worried that it was some dodgy spiritualist item my well meaning Christian friends were hanging around their babies necks! Now I am enlightened. Thank you! x
Rachel
Interesting! We’re experimenting with self-tests to determine whether my teen has allergies that contribute to skin problems as well as fatigue. I’d love to add the necklace to the testing line-up.
Jennie
I’d love to see how the hazelwood necklace could help with immune boosting!
Danielle
I would love to try the hazelwood necklace for my son, who has eczema. Actually, both my children would benefit, since they both have gut/immune issues. Thank you!
Kim
My youngest daughter is about 15 months and has struggled with eczema since she was born. Wheat is the main culprit for her breakouts, but we just can’t seem to get her skin to clear up completely. Rather than take her to all sorts of doctors for testing, I am hoping to continue trying more natural ideas at home. This sounds right up our alley!
Kathleen Giunta
I have headaches, need I say more.
Christy L
I have used the amber necklaces before with my babies and they have worked however I have never heard of the hazlewood necklaces. My one daughter has bumps (rash?) on her face and I would love to try it for that. I could also use a new amber necklace as we have a new baby due in November and I can’t fine our old necklace.
Megan
This would be interesting to try. They also look nice as well. If the Baltic Amber necklace it really helps headaches that would be great!!
Erica
Very intriguing…I have had eczema, sometimes severely, my whole life, and I have a 1 year old getting in all 4 eye teeth at once! Ouch! Immunity booster would be super, as well, for all 8 of us!
Jennifer Crum
I want to try hazelaid products for myself – to aid with some digestive difficulties, my boys for teething, and also for some general pain management. My sister’s got an amber necklace that she wears to help alleviate knee pain.