Sensitive skin

3 Things to Check Before You Wear It. We Would Rather Print Them Than Be Asked.

25 September 2026 · 3 min read

Occlusion over a potent steroid increases how much is absorbed. That is the most important sentence on this page, so it comes first.

Occlusion over a potent topical steroid increases how much of it is absorbed into the body.

That is not a footnote. It is the most important sentence here, so it comes before anything else.

Read the full safety notes

If it does not suit you, reply inside fourteen nights and we refund you without asking for it back.

1. Not over a prescription steroid

A plain white prescription style tube with no readable text lying on a pale grey surface beside a closed notebook and a pen

Unless your doctor has cleared it.

Covering skin makes its outer layer hold more water, and well hydrated skin lets more of whatever is on it pass through. With an emollient, that is the whole point. With a steroid, it means more of the drug reaching deeper and further than the dose was planned for. Clinicians sometimes cover a steroid deliberately, for a short time, under supervision. It should never happen by accident because a sock went on afterwards.

2. Not over broken, weeping or infected skin

A small closed white first aid box on a pale grey surface beside a folded clean white cloth

And the spaces between the toes stay dry.

Broken skin needs air, cleanliness and often a clinician's eye. Holding moisture against it is the wrong move. Between the toes, the skin is thin and already damp, and holding more moisture there softens it until it breaks down.

3. Patch test first

A single Day Sock on a folded white towel beside a white kitchen timer, on a pale grey surface

One sock, one hour, intact skin.

Wear one sock on one foot, for an hour, on skin that is not broken, without emollient first. Then look. It is the same careful first step you would take with any new product against reactive skin, and it costs one pair to find out.

See the Day Sock

If it does not suit you, reply inside fourteen nights and we refund you without asking for it back.

What is left is simple

Two socks turned inside out on white card, side by side: an ordinary cotton sock with a pale patch of emollient soaked through the sole, and a Solen Base…

It is a closed toe sock with a continuous bonded inner face. Nothing is infused into it and the material list is on the product page. It holds your emollient against the skin for longer than cotton can.

Before you buy

Not over a prescription steroid unless your doctor has said so. Occlusion increases how much is absorbed.
Not on broken, weeping or infected skin.
Not between the toes. Those spaces stay dry.

The offer

One pair · £25
the patch test tier: one sock, one hour, intact skin
3 pairs · £55
Most chosen · a rotation, not a wash cycle · Night Sleeve and mesh wash bag free
5 pairs · £89

Why now: the first step takes one hour.

Start with the patch test pair

If it does not suit you, reply inside fourteen nights and we refund you without asking for it back.

Free UK delivery · No subscription · Machine washable at 40 · Working life 3 to 6 months

A textile accessory, not a cosmetic or a medical device.

Same cream. Fourteen nights. A sock that cannot drink it.

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