thread: Baby Skin Care - What do you use?

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  1. #1
    BellyBelly Life Subscriber

    Feb 2006
    melbourne
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    we bath our girls in plain water, hair products are currently gaia but will get moogoo when it runs out, moisturiser is moogoo or simmons pawpaw salve for dry spots

  2. #2
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    Oct 2007
    Eastern Wheatbelt WA
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    Brendan and Tristan both suffer Excema, I use pawpaw salve and xma cream.

    In their bath GAIA sometimes, but mostly it's goats milk soap.

  3. #3
    Registered User

    Sep 2008
    Australia
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    I've used some of the Gaia products and they're good but DD has some sensitive skin and we were advised just to use plain water. I now undress her and rub QV wash into her skin like moisturiser before I bath her. It seems easier and her skin has improved. I use pawpaw ointment for nappy rash.

    I have also just been told to put cheapo oatmeal into a stocking and use it as soap, apparently it gets creamy milky and you just replace the oatmeal every couple of days. Haven't tried it yet though.

  4. #4
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    Jul 2005
    Rural NSW
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    Yep, I've used plain oatmeal in a stocking. It works. Takes a bit of getting used to after living a life with chemicals as cleansers but it is worth trying.

  5. #5
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    Jan 2009
    Melbourne
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    Olive where do you get your MooGoo in Melbourne? Their website only lists outer suburbs and country locations as stockists - is there anywhere in the CBD or inner north that sells it? Bathsheba oatmeal is the traditional old herbalists remedy for sensitive skin - it really works a treat doesn't it?

  6. #6
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    Jul 2005
    Rural NSW
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    I only buy MooGoo via online order. The postage that i pay is almost worth not having to buy a train ticket or petrol to the stores here in melbourne. They deliver VERY fast and always throw in a freebie sample.

  7. #7
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    Mar 2009
    373

    Thanks Everyone,

    I actually used the oats in the stocking as a kid when my skin was bad, so will probably be doing the same for bub!

  8. #8
    Nothing like a cuddle from DD after a hard day's work!

    Oct 2007
    in my own world
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    I use QV cream (not the lotion) on DD and QV bath oil and Moogoo on her bum.

    DD has eczema.

    She had a reaction to sorbolene, rolled oats didnt do much for her and J&J caused her eczmea to flare.

    Some people swear by other things so mostly trial and error for your bub.