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March 11, 2008

Simple Ways To Make Organic Products For Babies At Home

You would agree your baby needs to be protected from harmful chemicals and their effects. Most parents take great pains to ensure that everything in their baby's nursery is indeed organic - from the clothing to the bedding to the furniture even! This effort is especially made to ensure that no harmful chemical attacks the baby's delicate system before it is strong enough to defend itself.

The Benefits Of The Home Made Organic Products For Babies

There are two ways to get organic products for babies – buy them or make them. Most of the organic products for babies available on the market are prohibitively expensive. Nonetheless, caring parents buy this owing to their uncompromising love for their infants. You could however, make many of these products at home cutting the price to one third while being 100% assured of the quality of the product thus made. In this way you save money, as well as are sure about the quality of the product because you know exactly what ingredients went into their making.

Here are some excellent organic products for babies that you could make yourself at home with the least effort and expense:

1. Organic baby powder – take one cup of arrowroot powder and mix it thoroughly with one tablespoon each of dried and ground lavender and chamomile. This powder is excellent for drying the skin in the genital area – when you normally use powder to have the moisture absorbed – as this has anti-bacterial properties and it extra moisture-absorbent.

2. Organic nappies – the whole world today is buying disposable nappies for their babies for convenience rather for anything else. This gives you the freedom to carry the baby wherever you go without worrying about embarrassing accidents. However, you would agree that these nappies are not the best you could offer your baby. The best would be cloth nappies made from organic cotton which allows the skin to breathe while providing protection. There is nothing more simple than making organic nappies at home. Just buy the required material and cut it into squares according to the size you want for the nappies to be. Fold this cloth diagonally (into a triangle) and you have an excellent organic cloth nappy.

3. Anti rash oil – instead of using the commercial anti-rash ointment, make your own at home. Use tea tree oil which has excellent anti-bacterial and antiseptic properties for treating any rashes on your baby's skin. Aloe vera extract can also be used for this purpose.

Like these described above, there are many, many organic products for babies that you can make at home ensuring that your baby is totally protected from any harmful chemical that would have filtered into the commercial products inadvertently or intentionally.