In your family, joy - a child was born. Now it's time to take care of purchasing means for caring for baby skin, an important place among which is baby powder. For newborns it is preferable to use after bathing not powder, but cream. Beginning from the second month, a baby powder - powder substance of white or gray-white color, very soft and slightly zhirnovate to the touch - is quite suitable.
Why do I need baby powder?
Powder cools the child's skin, dries it, promotes the healing of inflammation. Powder adsorbs sweat, absorbs its excess and improves skin evaporation. Another plus when using powder from diaper rash - it reduces the itching of the baby, thereby calming it. If the child is hot, then on his delicate skin there may be a sweating. For the purpose of prevention in this case, use a baby powder for skin folds on the child's body. Often when using diapers appears a reddish rash - diaper dermatitis. In this case, the powder is also successfully used to relieve inflammation on the skin under the diaper.
How to choose a baby powder?
When buying powders, you should pay attention to the instruction: are there any mistakes in words, is there an indication of the manufacturer, is there a shelf life of the goods. If such signs are absent, then, most likely, you have a fake, which you should not buy. Children's powder should consist entirely of natural raw materials, be of uniform consistency, without lumps, without a pungent odor, which can cause allergy in the baby. If the abbreviation is indicated on the package with baby powder, for example: CDC, DHP, then it contains very harmful substances for adults and children, phthalates. These chemicals some unscrupulous producers add to the composition of powders. If you value the health of your child, then it is better to refrain from buying such a product.
How to use baby powder?
Treating powder from diaper rash needs all skin folds - popliteal, axillary, cervical, behind-the-bite. Use baby powder at least twice a day - after the morning toilet and evening bathing, and if necessary and more often. Apply the powder to the carefully dried baby's skin. Do not pour the powder directly onto the child's body. Preliminary it is necessary to put it on your fingers or on a cotton swab and distribute it with light dusting movements through the skin folds of the child. It is not recommended to use the powder for diapers very abundantly, as it can clog the porous layer of diapers and thereby disrupt their absorbency. It is forbidden to use both cream and powder at the same time, because they have opposite effects. In the question of using a baby powder or a cream for a diaper, there is one rule: if it is necessary to dry the skin, we use powder, if necessary we must moisten the cream.
Powder composition
Powder for babies is created on the basis of mineral talc, sometimes with the addition of flour. For greater hygroscopicity, it introduces corn, rice or potato starch. And if the baby powder with zinc, it also has a wound-healing effect. Sometimes in the composition of powders are introduced extracts of medicinal herbs - lavender, chamomile and others. Thus,
Children's powder can be of two types:
- powder - well removes excess moisture from the skin of the child and reduces the friction between his skin and diaper, it happens with a cooling effect;
- liquid talc is a very gentle product that, after application to the skin, turns into a powder and absorbs moisture well, without forming lumps on the skin.
If you are attentive to your baby and use only quality care products, then your child will necessarily grow strong and healthy.