Rub the menthol and phenol to form sludge, and incorporate into lotion. Affix shake label. However, the physician might better forget calamine lotion, calamine, and zinc lotion with phenol or with menthol and phenol. The physician should avoid prescribing what is so easily available without prescription. Also, the phenol and menthol do not really alleviate the itching sensation.
Calamine lotion is difficult to remove from an irritated area of skin.
Physicians also recall Lassar's paste with salicylic acid. Salicylic acid 2 Lassar's paste, sufficient to make 100 The alleged purpose of the salicylic acid in this low concentration was explained by the late Paul Unna of Hamburg. Reducing agencies, according to Unna, act on the skin as keratoplastic agents spurring formation of keratin if in low concentration, under 6 percent. A modern viewpoint offers low concentration of chemical-reducing agencies as fostering emulsification and restoration of the normal skin emulsion. The objections to Lassar's paste are valid for Lassar's paste with salicylic acid.