Hi,

I was just given a prescription to get a cream made for my hands because I have a tendency to get bad eczema on my skin. The formula the doctor wrote is: Sodium Chloride (NaCL) 3 grams, Eucerin 97 grams and Distilled Water 10 c.c. (I assume this means 10 cups. She wrote it like it was 10 to the power of c.c).  Today I'm going to a pharmacy to get it made, but in the future, I'd like to make it myself to save money. Where would I get these ingredients, and how would I make distilled water? And is NaCL just table salt?

This may or may not be 'amateur drug synthesis'...but I'm gonna say a couple things.

Distilled water (for drinking) is available at any grocery store.

Sodium chloride is the salt part of table salt, but if you're using it in a reaction BEWARE of the difference between pure sodium chloride and the table salt you buy (I'm mostly thinking about iodization)

Eucerin is a pharmaceutical itself...if you need a perscription for this medicine, maybe you'll probably need a prescription for Eucirin???

There's a tendency nowadays to use KCl instead of NaCl as a table salt substitute. I believe this is the stuff you get from supermarkets, although obviously it depends on the brand.

I believe it's mainly for health reasons (so as not to have high Na in the blood) but I'm not sure and I'm afraid I lack the time to research it. If you're worried, google it