Olive Oil and Reduced Atopic Dermatitis Severity

• Herbal Medicine in Children and Adults With Atopic Dermatitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

  • 2025-05-01
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 3,763
  • Dermatitis : contact, atopic, occupational, drug 36(3)
  • • Melanie Anheyer
    • Holger Cramer
    • Thomas Ostermann
    • Dennis Anheyer

  • PubMed: 38963342
  • DOI: 10.1089/derm.2024.0132

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Atopic Dermatitis Severity

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Herbs such as sunflower, licorice, figs, coconut, EPO, indigo naturalis, licorice, mauve, St. John's wort, and a combination of aloe vera and olive oil were found to have evidence of efficacy in the local treatment of atopic dermatitis.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  not specified (combined with aloe vera)