DIY Cloth Safe Butt Cream

My poor dd gets really bad rashes. So bad we always have to take her to the acc (acute care clinic) to get medicated creams. Which means I have to put her in a sposie and lather her up with a heavy thick paste. YUCK! I have been trying to make more homemade natural things for my family, especially for my daughter. Baby products have awful ingredients. HELLO, this stuff goes on our children! Prior to making my own cream I was using Boudreaux's Butt Paste. That stuff works great, but unfortunately it's not cloth diaper safe. Bummer, huh? A few weeks ago I ordered from Lil Tulips (my favorite cloth site) and needed a few more dollars in my order to allow for free shipping. I search sample and came across CJ's Butter so I order 3 tea tree scented samples. The cost was $1.50 for .5 oz. I was excited to get this on my daughter's bum! The smell was amazing I tell you. I loved everything about it, accept the cost. I decided to do some research and came across a few different homemade recipes that I really liked. It is so wonderful and works great on my daughter's stubborn rashes. She is just getting over a nasty virus and was having about 6 dirty diapers a day and it caused a rash. It cleared it up, love love love it. The smell is just incredible too!

What You'll Need
- 1 C of Coconut Oil
- 2 Tbsp Calendula Flowers
- 2 Tbsp Chamomile Flowers
- 1/2 C Shea Butter (raw & unrefined)
- 7 drops of tea tree essential oil
- 4 drops of lavender essential oil 
- Cheese Grater 
- 1 Tbsp Beeswax
- Container

Gather all your ingredients

Grate a tablespoon of beeswax

In a double boiler (I used a thick glass bowl in a pot) Boil a few inches of water. Add your coconut oil. Then place your beeswax, chamomile and calendula flowers in with the coconut oil. Keep the heat going on low/med for at least an hour or until the coconut oil turns yellow and smells of chamomile and calendula. 

Carefully strain the flowers out, carefully reserving as much infused coconut oil as possible. A strainer like this is your best option. Make sure all visible pieces of the flowers are removed.

Add your shea butter into the infused coconut oil. Use a fork to stir/mash the shea butter in

Once all the shea butter is mixed in go ahead and add your essential oils

Your cream is now done, now just give it some time to set and thicken. I personally wasn't a fan of the cream in the tube. Hope you enjoy your all natural butt cream !

DIY Calming Baby Wash & Shampoo

 We all know that I love DIY projects.

I was very excited to make this recipe. Recently I read about Johnson & Johnson.

Could NOT believe what I was saw on the backs of those washes.

All kinds of awful ingredients in their wash. Who wants to put that on their child(ren)?

NOT ME!!!!

The next day, I believe, my friend picked us up some J&J naturals.

I was already using Burt's Bees all natural wash for my daughter's home made wipes.

So, I just used instead of the J&J Naturals.

The company even knows the ingredients are dangerous, that why they have the Natural line.

They keep telling the public the toxic ingredients will all be removed in the next two years! Seriously?

I was on a mission and decided to surf the web for homemade wash that was gentle and truly natural.

I found quite a few recipes. I picked a recipe and tweaked it to my liking.

SUPER easy recipe, y'all!

Let's get started

Ingredients-

Coconut Oil (I use organic coconut oil)

Lavender Essential Oil

Kirk's Castile Soap

Cheese Grater

Container/Bowl

Gather all your ingredients. I used a plastic bowl to mix 

everything. Also used an old foam soap dispenser to put my wash in.

First grate a full bar of Kirk's Castile Soap into your bowl.

I used the side with the bigger holes. While doing this step 

go ahead and boil 6 cups of water.

It didn't take me too long to grate the soap, I would have

 liked to sit in front of the TV while doing so, but my dd

was awake. She would probably try to eat this "cheese" !

Once your water starts to boil go ahead you dump your soap shavings in.

Turn down the heat to medium and stir, stir, stir and stir some more.

Make sure your soap completely dissolves. 

When dissolved remove from heat. Let cool for a few minutes then pour

your solution in your bowl.

This next step you don't want to miss! 

Add however much coconut oil your heart desires.

I advise to at least add 1 Tablespoon.

I added 2 big spoonfuls of it and stirred around until melted. 

It made my dd's skin so smooth. I will be adding more.

Next I add this wonderful lavender essential oil.

Add 5 drops and give it a quick mix.

Lavender is such a calming scent so it's perfect for bath time.

After all the steps above I poured some wash into the soap dispenser.

The wash is pretty liquidity, but this dispenser works perfect and it foams nicely.

The next batch I am going to double boil some chamomile flowers

and strain the flowers out and pour the chamomile infused water in with the wash.

I was just too excited to make this and couldn't wait for the flowers to arrive.

Talk about relaxing bath, right?

I will do an update after I try it with the flowers :)

Cloth Ramble

It's been far too long since I posted!

We've been quite busy with a lot of appointments these past couple of weeks.

Just wanted to post some thoughts & opinions.

We have recently reintroduced cloth diapers in our home. YAY!

When my dd my 4 months old we started using cloth.

I absolutely LOVED it!

Our favorite brand was Applecheeks, just an overall fantastic diaper.

Actually, all of their products are wonderful.

They are a sized diaper, size 1 and size 2.

I really liked that about them because my daughter was born 6 weeks premature and used to be on the small side. They were such a good fit on her. 

About 1-2 months later she developed a rash :(

The diapers were causing it, unfortunately. 

At the time I didn't know much about cloth and so sadly we gave up cloth because the rash didn't go away. 

We decided to reintroduce, which I was ecstatic about!

My dd has very sensitive skin and was constantly getting rashes in disposables.

I don't mean a little pink/red rash, like a big mean red and raw rash.

It always looked so painful. Every time I would take her to the ACC (acute care clinic)

and of course I would then have to load her up with all kinds of creams.

OT for just a second.

Yesterday she had her 18 month baby wellness check up.

She was is a sposie because we only had 5 diapers.

Of course the day I put one on her she gets a rash. Coincident? I think not!

Her doctor told us she was having a reaction to the pampers' diapers.

We normally get Huggies.

So, she put an order in for Hyrdcortisone  .

The cloth has done wonders for us. We now have a few favorites!

Applecheeks is still my favorite. I now really like Grovia AIO and Bumgenius Flip!

They all are such a great fit on dd. Once all our orders are in I will post pictures and do a review/comparison on tthem. That way you can know before purchasing.

If you don't use cloth, but have thought about it, go ahead and try it! You will LOVE it, I promise!

It saves you a lot of money too, who doesn't like having some extra money?

Just my ramble for the day.