pregnancy safe skincare

[Anonymous]

jindc wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I use all Lush Cosmetics products..all completely natural and made from some of the best essential oils and plants. They have a great skincare line, also hair, makeup and bath products. There is one in Georgetown and Pentagon City.

I bought new mom gifts there for my good friend and found most stuff there has parabens in them. If you care about parabens, check the product. Some stuff doesn't, just most. Which stinks becaus I got a lip balm there I loved and won't use it.

This is true, my SIL used to work there and confirmed this. They started out as all natural back in the day, but once they started having to mass produce things, they added in all the bad preservatives.

[Anonymous]

OP, I don't use BB creams (I use Bare Minerals for foundation), but for face wash and moisturizer, I use Alba Organics that I buy at Whole Foods. I use the pineapple enzyme wash and the green tea and aloe moiturizer. I don't have them in front of me to check ingredients, but I think it's a pretty "safe" list.

[Anonymous]

This stuff drives me crazy. Like Jindc (hi, it's pumpkin!) I need stuff to "work." I try to just do the best I can without going overboard. For me, I'm big on avoiding artificial fragrances, pthalates, parabans, and reducing the amount of preservatives as much as possible. I use the yes to carrots line. But, then PP's link to stuff like what is sodium benzoate is distressing. Lush, and other companies (like california baby, which I used to love for my kid but who ticked me off so much when they quietly started using sodium benzoate) started off natural and then as they move into bigger markets start to cave to some of the appeal of preservatives to make mass marketing easier.

I switch between the acure lemongrass shampoo and conditioner, shikai color protect shampoo and conditioner (also whole foods) and yes to carrots (target, the least natural of the three I think). ((I need to switch hit on shampoos or my fine, limp, hair goes into mourning). I'm not sure how "completely perfect" any of these are, but they're definitely better than what you get standard at the drugstore. I use alba organic unscented lotion, mainly because anything else makes my pregnant skin go all hivey.

If you think organic skin care is hard to find, wait until you start to see the shite that's in baby care stuff. Johnsons recently took the worst out of their product but I remember registering for all of this awesome smelling mustela stuff then chucking it all once I spent some time on EWG.

Now I try to stay away from EWG, because I feel like it convinces me that the only way to be completely safe is to wash your hair with filtered water and a slice of organic lemon.

[Anonymous]

Oh, PP / pumpkin here, I should have mentioned, I use and love Dr. Hauschka day lotion and I use jurlique for a face wash. Love both.

[Anonymous]

coconut oil is my favorite for hand & body lotion. Costco sells a gigantic tub of organic extra virgin. You can also use it for diaper cream once baby's here.

[Anonymous]

Oh and for deodorant if you're looking - Tom's of Maine has something called the Crystal that works better than most non-toxic deodorants I've tried. You can find it at vine.com.

[Anonymous]

I use the Lavanila deodorant. It's hella expensive, but lasts a long time and smells nice.

[Anonymous]

I just started this, I see an immediate difference in my sensitive ski:

http://simplemom.net/oil-cleansing-method/

[Anonymous]

^^skin!