I first learned about Gallixa skin cream in 2016 when I was researching remedies on Earth Clinic for a friend suffering from excruciating nerve pain on one side of her face. Even though it is sold as a cosmetic skin cream, Gallixa kept popping up as the "go-to" remedy for trigeminal neuralgia, a chronic pain condition affecting the trigeminal nerve in the face.
I was very impressed with the testimonials I read on the quirky Gallixa website about how the cream alleviated pain for conditions like shingles, arthritis, peripheral neuropathy, plantar fasciitis, joint pains, and at least 50 other ailments. I also liked how it was safe to use on animals, including sarcoid (skin cancer) and wounds in horses. I recommended the product to my friend and filed the name away in my brain to try someday. Then I promptly forgot about it.
Fast forward five years when Gallixa popped up again in a recent post for peripheral neuropathy. I instantly recognized the name, clicked over to their website, and became impressed all over again. I decided right then and there to buy a large 2 oz tube and test it extensively on myself and my dogs. You can find my review a little further down in this article. But first...
Gallixa is a fast-absorbing skin cream made with Gallium Maltolate, a combination of Gallium, an exotic element, and Maltol, a naturally-derived substance. Recent studies indicate that gallium maltolate may be effective against pain, including some types of pain that are resistant to other therapies, as well as being anti-inflammatory.
Maltol occurs naturally in many foods by converting from sugars through the baking or roasting process. You can find it in beans, cocoa, bread, beans, cocoa, coffee, peanuts, and roasted malt (where it gets its name). It is also found in the bark of larch trees and in pine needles.
Because maltol has the scent of cotton candy and caramel, it is used to impart a sweet aroma to many skincare products and fragrances. Maltol is also often also used as a flavor enhancer in loaves of bread and cakes because it adds that delicious "freshly baked" odor.
Extensive scientific research has shown that Gallium possesses potent anti-inflammatory properties when incorporated in certain compounds—particularly gallium maltolate.
Discovered by French chemist Paul-Èmile Lecoq De Boisbaudran in 1875, Gallium is a soft, silvery metal. Gallium is a chemical element with the symbol Ga and atomic number 31.
Gallium is never found as a free element, and it only rarely occurs as a major component of any mineral.
It exists predominately in traces throughout most rocks and soils, from which it is taken up in small amounts by plants. Gallium is concentrated in some zinc and aluminum ores, which provide the source for most of the world’s commercially used gallium. Currently, most gallium is produced in China, with minor production from Japan, South Korea, and Russia.
Earth Clinic fans of borax/boron may be thrilled to learn that gallium is grouped in the Boron family (group 13) on the periodic table of the elements. This group includes the semi-metal boron (B) and metals aluminum (Al), gallium (Ga), indium (In), and thallium (Tl), according to Chemistry LibreTexts.
Gallixa skin cream is used for the following ailments or symptoms:
DOGS
HORSES
Gallixa contains only soothing ingredients, with no added preservatives, fragrances, or dyes. It is also hypoallergenic.
The base for the cream formulation is the same used by dermatologists for patients with the most sensitive skin (similar to original Aquaphor® plus water). Please note that the lanolin alcohol wax is a highly purified product from which allergens have been removed, so it is hypoallergenic. All ingredients are of the highest cosmetic grade and have been chosen for their skin-friendly properties:
Gallium maltolate (0.5%)
Water
White ozokerite wax (emulsifier, emollient)
Petrolatum (moisturizer, emollient, skin protectant)
Lanolin alcohol wax (emulsifier, moisturizer)
Mineral oil (moisturizer, emollient, skin protectant)
Apply a thin layer of cream to the skin where needed up to 4 times per day.
* NOT TESTED ON ANIMALS
* MADE IN THE USA
* SAFE FOR EXTERNAL USE ON PETS, INCLUDING DOGS, CATS, AND HORSES
Important Note and Tip!
The cream in this tube is thick and the opening at the top quite small, so if you have severely arthritic hands and have a hard time squeezing things, consider ordering a JAR instead of the tube. Alternatively, you could have someone squeeze some cream into a small, resealable cosmetic container.
Below is our review after two and half weeks of extensive use of the topical application. I am loving the results so much -- and the faint strawberry scent of the cream for that matter-- I promptly bought 100 jars and tubes to sell on Earth Clinic so that others could discover this hidden gem. Yes, it's now available on Earth Clinic's just relaunched shop here!
After two weeks of applying the cream 2-4 times a day on my dogs and myself, I can report that Gallixa is pretty awesome stuff.
Me:
My Dogs (Ages 15 ½)
Below are three more reviews from the Gallixa site worth reading.
"The gallium [maltolate] cream is nothing short of magic. It is prompt in action, devoid of side effects, easy to apply, non-greasy and non-staining and has no unpleasant odor to it, an altogether wonderful and efficacious product. " — Walter M. Lewis, MD, Santa Barbara, California
"In 1993, at the relatively young age of 44, [my wife] contracted a case of shingles which affected the right side of her face, neck and upper chest. After about two weeks the pustules went away but excruciating pain in the right side of her face remained… Around 1998 she was put on morphine (oramorph), along with an antidepressant (amitriptyline), which seemed to stabilize her pain at around a 7 out of 10… Recently she has tried a couple of new medicines, both oral and topical creams, with no relief. Also a recent occipital nerve block did not work…Within 20 minutes of applying a thin layer of [Gallixa] cream to the side of her face, the pain level diminished from a “7” to a “2”. We both think this is a phenomenal result. This is the least amount of pain she has experienced in 20 years… She anticipates getting off all of her other “pain meds” and being able only to use the cream. Thank you very much for this "miracle” — Jim S., Asheville, North Carolina
"UPDATE: I received the Gallixa order from you today. It has been almost one year now since I tried your cream and my pain from the PHN [postherpetic neuralgia] has virtually disappeared. After twenty years of constant debilitating pain, this past year has been amazing."
— Cheryl S., Asheville, North Carolina
"I have been trying the Gallixa on all sorts of pain patients. It clearly takes pain away significantly within 20 minutes… One grateful patient has fibromyalgia and a recent mastoidectomy; the Gallixa relieved the agonizing throbbing pain she was left with behind her ear over the surgical scar. It also took down throbbing in a broken toe and a squashed finger… This week I gave my last jar to a woman with fibromyalgia who got a Bell's palsy with intense pain over one side of her face, much more than usual with this condition, and the pain went down in five minutes… A couple of patients with chronic migraines have been putting it over the trigeminal nerve pathways and finding it really helped. It is good on tendinopathies as well."— Paula Williams, MD (internist and pain specialist), Toronto, Canada
Gallixa Website - Buy directly from Dr. Bernstein's website.
Please Note:
The statements made regarding these products have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
