5 Reasons Liverty's 'Plant Steroid' Drops Beat Steroid Creams for Eczema

1. Liverty calms your skin with your own cortisol, not a man-made one

Steroid creams put a man-made version of cortisol on your skin, which is why they calm a flare so fast.

Your body makes its own steroid, called cortisol, and it is what calms the inflammation in your skin.

Instead of adding a man-made steroid, Liverty uses licorice root to help the cortisol your body already makes do more of the work.

Licorice root is called a “plant steroid” because it works on that same cortisol, but there is no steroid drug in Liverty.

2. Your own cortisol keeps working longer

Once cortisol has done its job, your body switches it off by turning it into an inactive form.

The main compound in licorice root, glycyrrhizin, slows that switch, so the cortisol you already make stays active longer and keeps calming your skin.

It doesn't replace the cortisol you make, it keeps it working for longer.

3. No thinning skin, and no steroid cream to taper off

The longer you use a steroid cream, the thinner your skin gets, which is why you are told to use it only for short stretches.

People who stop after years on a steroid cream can go through topical steroid withdrawal, when the skin turns bright red and raw.

Liverty has no steroid drug in it, so there is no steroid cream to taper off and nothing to thin your skin.

It is made to be taken every day, including the weeks your skin is clear.

4. It makes your cream work harder while you still use it

You don't have to stop your cream the day you start.

In a study published in The Lancet, a licorice compound rubbed onto human skin made hydrocortisone cream work harder there, because it stopped the skin from switching the steroid off.

In a 28-day trial of 199 adults with chronic eczema, 48 in every 100 who took glycyrrhizin capsules by mouth with their steroid cream cleared most of their eczema, against 21 in every 100 on the cream alone.

Flares came back for 3 in every 100 people who took glycyrrhizin, and for 12 in every 100 on the cream alone.

5. It works from the inside, with nothing to rub in

A cream only works on the patch you rub it into.

Liverty is 1 mL of lemon-tasting oil that you hold under the tongue for 30 seconds and swallow, so the licorice root in it goes to work inside your body.

"I have prescription shampoo and a topical clobetasol liquid, but it barely did anything. Now, I take Liverty Drops every morning and my scalp is clear." Julia L.

You take it every day, morning or night, and these are the herbs in it:

• milk thistle
• turmeric
• nettle leaf
• lemon balm
• chaga mushroom
• licorice root