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There Is No Skin Problem This Miracle Breakout-Fighter Can't Beat

Jean Godfrey-June

I have sung the praises of Umbrian Clay (in the tube) every which way from Sunday--it gets rid of acne faster than anything besides a dermatologist's needle, it obliterates infections that have resisted even strong antibiotic salves, and last summer it even cured my son's supposedly not-treatable fungal-skin thing. Okay. Gross. But worth knowing the next time you're stricken by such things...

Then, this weekend, a spot on my wrist seemed, improbably, to have poison ivy. The kind of itch that's painful and un-ignorable, and it looked like poison ivy (which I've never had). Panicked, I slathered it in Umbrian Clay. The next morning, no itch, no irritation, just--my wrist.

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