![]() Your options are to use a bit of something acidic on his hair after you wash it such as a bit of Dr. For smoothness, the alkalinity of a true soap like ours needs to be balanced out with a bit of acidity. It is more susceptable to pH differences. Generally, the soap alone works great on Vellus hair, but as hair moves into its permanent texture, it needs to be treated differently. Terminal hair is thicker and stronger than either of the two previous stages. Most likely what you’re noticing is that your son’s hair is transitioning from the Vellus stage, which is the second hair growth stage and occurs after babies lose their newborn Lanugo hair, and into the Terminal stage, which is what he’ll have for the rest of his life. Hi Sandra – It’s great to hear that you’ve been using the unscented Castile. ![]() I’ve also heard that there are little bath visors babies can wear to keep the soapy water out of their eyes when rinsing their heads. To take care of her head, I tip her head back so that the water and soap run backwards off of her head. I use cup of water to rinse the soap off. Thirdly, the soap is diluted on the wet washcloth and isn’t applied strongly to my baby’s skin. Secondly, it is easier to control where the soap goes, and you don’t have it running all over the baby. First, you don’t use or lose as much soap. Then, I add a couple drops of the pure castile soap to the washcloth. I use a wet wash cloth to wipe her face gently. How to wash a baby with our Baby Unscented Castile soap:įirst, I don’t use any products on my baby’s face. It does not contain any of the essential oils that the other soaps have and it has twice the concentration of saponified olive oil which makes it even more soothing. So, although it’s not good for the eyes, our Baby Unscented Castile soap is awesome for babies’ sensitive skin. Additionally, such products will probably have synthetic preservatives which can be irritating to the skin. They are very mild petrochemicals, but petrochemicals all the same. Baby products that go by names such as “cleansers,” “baby wash,” “shower gel” or the like, are made from non-soap surfactants, which almost always means petro-chemicals, or derived from petroleum. Bronner’s case, olive and coconut oils) with an alkali. directly from nature, not synthetic) product made by reacting animal or vegetable oils (in Dr. I never use the word “soap” regarding these substances because they are not, in fact, soap. So, using a product with a neutral pH that doesn’t irritate a baby’s eyes but still gets a baby clean may seem like a no-brainer – until you look at what these products are made of. To lower the pH would neutralize the cleaning ability of the soap. ![]() Bronner’s Castile soaps are around 9.3, a pH not at all irritating to our skin. This is ever so slightly alkaline (a pH of 7 is neutral). Our eyes have a very narrow window of tolerable pH, around 7.54+/- 0.01. Irritation to the eyes is caused primarily from a deviation in pH. To understand why I chose to abandon the realm of “baby friendly” products demands the question, “What makes ‘tear free’ products ‘tear free’?” “Tear free” products have a neutral pH. We have to be careful to keep it out of the eyes. In fact, most of us who are now washing babies were washed with non-“tear free” products ourselves, and we survived. Consider that babies have been washed with normal soap for a really long time before the advent of “tear free” stuff. Bronner’s Baby Unscented Castile Soap on my baby, even though it is not “tear free”.
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