cradle cap

[CrystalBoo]

Olive oil all the way! DD has heaps of hair but it only takes two washes and rinses to get it out. Use a dropper to get it only where you really want it, then massage in and leave for the day - wash out before bed and most of the skin will come off with a light scratching or soft brush.

[MistyFying]

Here's a link to a big thread about cradle cap...

[Lewis's Mummy]

Thanks for the help - so far the bicarb is working well and I popped into the body shop and they gave me (gotta love a freebie!)a really tiny sample pot of their ginger scalp treatment shampoo stuff which has also been good - just a tiny dip of my finger into it, it lathers up really well, smells nice and I can comb out a lot of the cc easily, so using that every few days when I don't use the bicarb. Hardest part has been distracting DS long enough to let me comb it out!

[Mollygirl]

I know you have lots of suggestions, so thought I would just add what worked for me on DD who has fine hair and not heaps of cradle cap:

put QV oil on at night, leave until morning or next bath and rub across (not into the head) with a wet face washer and it disappeared.

Wish I had known this with DS who always had it and I was embarrassed by it.

I have found with DD, I don't wash her hair much, just wet her head with water in the bath most of the time and only once a week and she has it a lot less than DS who I used to wash his hair with soap every bath time.

Goodluck

[MumofLewis]

Hi Lewis's Mummy, I am Mum of Lewis! Great name!

I used a bit of olive oil which I rubbed on before bed and then brushed out in the morning. There was no mess as I didn't use too much.

I also only used shampoo once or twice a week and just used water the other days like Mollygirl did.

[Lewis's Mummy]

Thanks, the cc is pretty much all gone now thanks to the Bicarb/Ginger stuff from body shop and we've switched to washing his hair about once a week and just using water the rest of the time so hopefully that will keep it under control.