Bathing and Bum products for bub, creams, cloths, wipes etc what do you recommend?

[mummydreamer]

ETA :yeahthat: snap Limey.

For in the bath when they're tiny I use only water. When they're bigger I use 3 drops of lavender in the bath and I like Ecostore products from woolies and there's another wash with mallow and something.....grrr can't remember the name.

the brand is called Method, i have used them a few times and they're nice.

are you serious moogoo has palm oil in it??? i'm so shocked, i really thought they wouldn't.how disappointing :-\

in terms of what to use, i think everyone has listed some good things. plain water while they're really young, essential oils. paw paw ointment. this one is natural:

Simmons - Petroleum-free Paw Paw salve 25g tube

the aldi fragrance free nappy wipes are really good, if you needed to buy wipes at some point. and i really love Gaia's products, they're really good for bub too.

[CrazyLady]

the brand is called Method, i have used them a few times and they're nice.

That's the one that makes DD's skin break out. It's the mallow one in the little animal shaped bottle and looks the colour/consistancy of honey.

I can't for the life of me find my natural paw paw ointment right now. I will have to buy about 5 tubes while visiting melb I think because it's FANTASTIC stuff!

[allycat06]

For the first few months I didn't use anything on DS. For nappy changes just some cotton balls and warm water did the trick.
After that we've just used the Gaia products. Only need a few drops so they last for ages and I like that I can just buy them from the supermarket. I also like the Burt's Bees range, Baby Bee.

We use a combination of cloth and disposable wipes, flannel squares (Big Softies brand, I'm too lazy to make my own, I think it's about $5 for 12 or something like that) and Gaia bamboo wipes.

[luna moth]

Flannelette squares and face washers at the ready here! My flanno squares are old pillowcases cut up and edged. I hate disposable wipes, but they are great to have on hand for cleaning stove spills, skirting boards, DH's bikes etc.
Scalp care - since you're asking now - use a face washer, just wet with water and run it firmly over baby's head, backwards from the forehead, just to sort of scrub off any issues before they start. Do it daily from birth. I second the olive oil treatment if you do run into any issues.
I have ecostore and Gaia (x3!) and aromababy bath wash, don't know which I like. Probably won't use them in the bath, but I might make a pump pack with a little bit of baby wash and some water to use as a wipes solution.
And we've got microfleece liners that I made, it's just cut up microfleece. It was on special at Lincraft last week, being end of winter, or you can always buy it off ebay in a wider variety of colours.