Baby Bum Balm
3 parts olive oil
1 part beeswax
vitamin E oil.
put the olive oil and beeswax in a jar and place the jar in a pot of boiling water.
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| I'm also making hand lotion. |
When it's melted, add a little bit of vitamin E oil, about 1/4 tsp.
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| I poured it into an old diaper cream tin. |
Let it cool in the fridge. That's all you have to do. This stuff works really well, Bennett had a pretty good diaper rash when I made this for him and it cleared it up super fast. It's so cheap you can use it at every diaper change to prevent a rash.
My master plan is to have an amazing garden this summer and to grow calendula flowers in it. Then, I will infuse the oil with calendula flowers before I make the bum balm. Apparently calendula is really good for treating rashes, eczema and even fungal infections.
Also, I couldn't find beeswax in stores, maybe I didn't look in the right places or maybe stores don't carry it because nobody else is interested in making things from beeswax. So, I called up a local bee keeper, they had lots of beeswax they were happy to get rid of. It was a win win.
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My master plan is to have an amazing garden this summer and to grow calendula flowers in it. Then, I will infuse the oil with calendula flowers before I make the bum balm. Apparently calendula is really good for treating rashes, eczema and even fungal infections.
Also, I couldn't find beeswax in stores, maybe I didn't look in the right places or maybe stores don't carry it because nobody else is interested in making things from beeswax. So, I called up a local bee keeper, they had lots of beeswax they were happy to get rid of. It was a win win.
This post was shared at Simple Lives Thursday and Your Green Resource Thursdays.
I grew Calendula and they were very pretty and then I just picked the flowers all the time and froze them in a bag in the freezer. Opps, I haven't used them yet because I don't have bees wax... we should live closer, we'd be a perfect match :)
ReplyDeleteHey Jo, I remember when you were growing them, they were very pretty. Apparently you can make a tea with your calendula flowers (steep 1 tbsp flowers in 1 cup water) and drink up to 3 times a day. It's good for all sorts of things...colds, strep throat, stomach aches, diarrhea, and regulating menstrual flow. (I got this from my book "Naturally Healthy Babies and Children")
ReplyDeleteI love this stuff. Love it. And so do my babies.
DeleteSo is this diaper cream safe with cloth diapers?
ReplyDeleteThanks for asking! I totally forgot to mention the best part, this cream is perfectly fine to use with your cloth diapers.
DeleteThis stuff is awesome. Over night on a diaper rash and it's gone. And the cloth diapers are fine. I use it with mine all the time.
ReplyDeleteSo simple! Thanks! :) :)
ReplyDeleteThis is awesome, thanks for sharing! I make something similar with shea butter but this is great because you can find these ingredients so much more easily.
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