I just used water most of the time. It's not like they're getting very dirty.
The method products are nice when you want to wash their hair. I'm not a fan of anything that is highly perfumed - I like my babies to smell of baby not orange flower and vanilla bean.
They're 3&4 now and they still use mainly water and only a tiny amount of method for their privates. I only use water except on my armpits and to wash my hands unless I've got super dirty somehow. We pay a fortune for soaps that strip our skins and then another fortune for moisturisers to try and replace what we've just lathered off.
You don't have to use baby products from day one - water is usually sufficient. But I like to put a small squirt of baby wash in the bath. Newborn babies don't need to be bathed everyday either - you can just do a 'top and tail' if you don't want to fill up a bath, which basically involves just wetting a wash cloth with warm water and wiping their face, hands and feet and in any skin folds (like around their neck and thighs).
I use QV bath oil and sorbolene as a moisterizer if i see DD is getting dry skin.
A midwife once told me that the only reason that J&J can mae the claim that their products are used by 90 somkething % of hospitals is because they give it to them for free! Even midwives hate the stuff!
Maybe just start with water and get some samples of different washes to work out what works best for you.
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