Your best bet is to get back to basics. Use NOTHING on your skin that you wouldn’t put into your eyes! No anti-biotic ointments, or harsh chemicals. Use no soaps which have fregrances in them including laundry soaps on your clothes. Instead, use fresh water to clean, you can add sea salt to the water to control itching, dry well with a soft cloth (this is key), and use a petroleum jelly to lubricate only if needed to help heal cracked bleeding skin (a tiny bit goes a long way).

If this doesn’t heal things up for you, go to a Dermatologist. General practitioners are not qualified to treat your allergies. They are not up to date with the current new findings regarding irritants and allergies that effect our skin.

This is an interested concept and definately worth more research.

I currently use Devcon 2 part Epoxy. Both the Epoxy Resin, and the Hardener bottles contain the warning “Potential Skin Sensitizer”.

Usually, when I research Allergic Contact Dermatitis/Eczema, I search those words specifically. I’m then taken to Medical Specialty sites that provide information.

Here are a couple of sites that I refer to on my own site.

http://www.eczema-ltd.com/contact.php
http://www.eczemaguide.com/eczema_basics/eczema_like/contact_dermatitis.html
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/dermatitis-eczema/DS00339
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermatitis

One suggestion: After hardening, wipe the surface of the epoxy with acetone. I use a Q-tip. This will remove traces of unhardened resin or excess hardener from the surface without significantly (noticeably) affecting the polymerized mass.

Back in my radiation research days, I used a 5:1 epoxy in the lab. We’d measure out five parts of resin, and then one part of hardener on a lab scale. We’d then mix well, pour, and put on a hot plate for 10 minutes to set it.

When I bond to titanium, I scratch the titanium surface that will be hidden with a needle file or a small burr on a flex shaft (Dremel equivalent) just before gluing.