Any help for skin that gets sticky when it gets wet?

Thanks, Kacha. Your insight is most appreciated.
No amount of scrubbing seems to remove this covering on my skin. I feel more dirty following a shower until I am completely dry. This sticky, wax-like covering acts as a real skin barrier. I've always been one to heavily perspire (us Southern gals don't sweat) when working in the yard --- it would run from even my arms and legs. But now the only sweat breaking through this covering is from the top of my head (like standing under a continuous stream of water) and some from my armpits. No oil or lotion seems to penetrate it, but surprisingly my skin doesn't feel dried out, even my hands to which I previously applied lotion throughout each day. I've also noticed that this covering is impervious to insect bites, nail scratches, shaving nicks, etc.
Not to be an alarmist, but what is the possibility that this "thing" is doing to us internally the same as it is externally. Many of us are already experiencing the coating in our mouths, nasal passages, eyes & other mucosal openings. If it is able to impede the normal function of our skin, could it also be covering other internal organs and affecting their normal functions?

Kacha here.
Thanks anonymos about the garlic capsule suggestion. I´m thinking about trying that, what brand are you using? Could be a difference between the effictivness in different brand so i wantet to try your brand.
Lucille:
I´ve been thinking about that. What we noticed was the skin wrikeled in a different way when soaked in water, it did not wrinkle as fast as normal skin, and when it did wrinkle it was really deep wrinkles. Almost as if you had to be soaked for a much longer time before the skin was totally absorbed. Many peculiar things noticed. As for me, thoug i sweated massivly from armpits and there was a peculiar new smell to that, really bad, and very hard to hide even when fresch out of shower. So the pores obvioselyy was not clogged from sweat in my case, but it came in "attacs" almost as if the body really tried to get the sweat or some poison out. Dont now if this is helpfull info, but i think, that as long as you still sweat? the body can get rid of atleast the most of what it needs to. But I got that feeling too since lotion and thing sat on top when it was really bad. You really feel covered and it is a worrying feeling. But they are so much larger molecules I think, so water from inside out hopefully gets out of your body anyway. I think so, even if whe experience a difference. If you dont sweat at all i would be more worried, in that case try to take a bath for atleast an halfhour-40 minutes a day,may help to transport things out through the pores. A clogged bow or to little water more thinks have to leave through the skin just a thought so drink enough water. About the shedding process, do you feel as if there is no skin to rub of, in/after shower, i did very much the firts time i was sticky. It gort better after a while and soaking/bathing again was a good thing to help i think. take care! be carefull with hair chemichals, since whe dont know what is causing this. take care! Kacha

Thank goodness to find all of your posts regarding acquired cutaneous adherence. There's a peace in knowing that I'm not the only one going through this weird thing, yet nonetheless disturbing that there appears to be little to no control over it. Within the past 3 months I've had this same sticky waxy covering spread over my entire body (hair included), into my mouth, nose, etc. Like many of you posting, I have multiple autoimmune disorders, low immunoglobulins, & quiescent TB.
Pls tell me if I've overlooked among all the posts if anyone found a doctor who would actually acknowledge the condition or someone who found a definitive, successful course of treatment. Also,does anyone know if certain caustic hair treatments such as permanents, relaxers, etc had any effect on killing/removing the covering from the hair & scalp? I've tried a hair removal lotion on my skin, but to no avail.
Now, my most serious concern... If this covering is not permeable by soaps, lotions, etc., then what becomes of the skin's natural shedding process and the toxins & bacteria that leave through our skin & sweat?
Whatever insight you all have is most appreciated. THX

Hi everyone, ive had the same problem for about a year now in my armpits and i think ive found a cure, i started taking garlic capsules, 2 in the morning and 2 at night i went through 4 bottles and quit taking for 3 or 4 days then it came back so acouple days later i bought some more and it seems to be gone again but i also had this horrible stinch that went along with it thats mostly gone too it just depends what shirt i wear. I hope this helps someone.

Hi , this is kacha again. Lala35, I thought about what you wrote about first noticing this in the shower whilst shampooing... Actually the label, as you suggested could be the cause, in this case...my first episode started after contact with a sticker that i tried to rinse of a plastic pen using hot/varm water. My hands felt really slimy coated during the actual event, almost as u discribe, i usually describes it as "it felt like meltes candle, stearin or parraffin.... after that the hands dried, the were sticky when wet just as you and the rest of us describe, but the really slimy coaty felling was just durin the actuall event, after that more rubbercoated feeling to them when really wet, and sticky when moist. Hold on to stuff that is a little moist relly shows the problem, I know the feeling with the starbuckscup, or something out of the refridgerator that is a little most. Just thought it was interesteig that you suspected shampo sticker/label. Since it do contain glue, and the shampoo could have contained silicone that can act as a carrier.and also the paper in the labels could have been coated with or containing other chemichals, labels and coated paper often are, i think this definetely can be the cause in your case. In my case I think I got the glue on me, int kind of melted in the varm water and then spread via another substanse/chemichal, silicone or wahtever., IF you to can pinpoint when the stickyness started to varm water, stickerlabel and shampoo, yours and my firts ongoing vents causatives when we first exxperienced sticky skin seem very similar to eachother. I think you shold hold off from using products on you hands and then on your body for a while, since this phenomena has spread from hands so body for some of us before, just chill with any more products for a while, use plastic gloves ( cottongloves under so you dont get a reaction to the plastic gloves)maybee in the shower i you have to use shampoo, but do not use the same shampoobottle if it started with that....save the bottle though, I saved some of the bottles I used then for future examination. Adhesives (glue) in labels are often made either from rubber or acrylates. I would NOT recommend this in any other case, but since you suspected glue and it IS still only on your hands only you could try to use a solvent on your hands, water as whe know doesnt seem to do the trick, but if you have glue/silicones/plastic components on hands a solvent like ( In sweden we have a medical solvent for removing glue from band-aids called bensin, the same thing used in cars but, more purified for use on skin) that are VERY effective for removing glue residues, and fat residues )I don´t know the purified name in english but basicly it is gasoline. naftha could also work. Again, dont try this if you are sticky all over, but for use one time only on hands it could work to solve if there is a residue. and prevent it from spreding. Use the product methodically from wrist working your way to the fingertips, using cotton swabs then rinse with water afterwords. you should feel the difference imediatly if it helps. The hands get a little dry from it thats normal. I use this if I accedently get a glue stain on hands by touching something. To prevent the same thing that happened to me the firts time when i t spead. Keep in mind that this types of products a toxic, but as i said, very effective as a solvent for certain types of residues. You could try to use it on two fingers first and then do the "do they stick together test".
Again plaese save the shampoobottle and other things used in the shower that migth have caused it.
Hope u and everyone else feel better soon!
/ kacha