Friday, March 16, 2012

Baby Bum Balm

I love this stuff!!  It's really easy to make and really cheap and it really works.

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.

I'm also making hand lotion.


When it's melted, add a little bit of vitamin E oil,  about 1/4 tsp. 


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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8 comments:

  1. 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 :)

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  2. Hey 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")

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    1. I love this stuff. Love it. And so do my babies.

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  3. So is this diaper cream safe with cloth diapers?

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    1. Thanks for asking! I totally forgot to mention the best part, this cream is perfectly fine to use with your cloth diapers.

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  4. This 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.

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  5. This 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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