Natural Skin Care Products for You and Baby

Do

• Be aware of ingredients that are commonly associated with reactions on delicate skin such as sulphates (ingredients that cause a product to foam), lanolin, peanut oil and mineral oil

• Look for the ‘Certified Organic' logo on pregnancy and baby related skin products to ensure that the manufacturer has been certified properly - many products claim to be ‘natural' or ‘organic' but can still contain a high level of irritating ingredients

• Remember that residues from everything you put on your skin can be absorbed into your body and during pregnancy residues may filter through from your blood stream to your growing baby. During breast feeding residues can filter through your milk.

• Look for products that use recycled packaging or whose packaging can be recycled - we all know it makes sense.

• Use the application of lotion as a time to bond with your partner, a time for your partner to bond with baby and when baby is born a time for you to all bond with each other.

Don't

• Use general, adult toiletry products on new born babies as they are manufactured using higher amounts of perfumes, alcohol, added colours and other ingredients that can potentially be irritating to an infant's paper-thin skin.

• Believe that because products are ‘Certified Organic' they have to be more expensive than those bought on supermarket shelves. The ‘????' cream from Koochie Koo is certified organic and only costs

• Be afraid to use unscented or plain base products on babies' skin. Your baby will smell just as yummy and his/her skin will be much happier.

• Hesitate to ask your doctor or nurse for advise - they will obviously only recommend the products they have tried and tested but will also give you guidance on new products you may have identified.

Information provided by http://www.koochiekoo.co.uk