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Tips for Better Baby Skin Care

| Thursday, 5 January 2012
By Amelie Heighway


Making sure your child's skin stays clean and healthy takes more than simply bathing and applying lotion once a day. It is important that every inch of your child's skin stays healthy and clean. Laundry, sun exposure and erupting skin conditions are all things that you need to stay on top of.

Remember, your baby's skin is far more sensitive than the skin you have as an adult. Your baby needs your watchful eyes and care to make sure that skin conditions are stopped before they start. Thankfully, baby skin care is not all that complicated. You should be able to put together a quality routine early on in your baby's life. Here are some hints and tricks to assist you.

Make sure to test the temperature of the baby's bath water before you let that water touch your baby. A baby's skin is sensitive and burns more easily than an adult's skin. In fact, it isn't until our later years that we even begin to enjoy hot baths or long hot showers. The best way to test your baby's bathwater is to test it with your elbow. If the incredibly sensitive skin on your elbow feels uncomfortable in the water adjust the temperature accordingly. Your baby's bath water should, at most, be lukewarm.

Lukewarm is a good compromise in temperature because it will keep you from accidentally burning (or freezing) your baby.

If the sensitive skin of your elbow finds the water too hot or too cold, adjust the temperature of the water. Your baby's bath water should never be hotter than lukewarm.

Acne is a skin problem that many people don't know can inflict their baby. The cause of the acne stems back to the pregnancy when the hormones of the mother is setting the stage for later acne production. This is more common than people realize, the hormones trigger the skin to produce oil, the oil fills the pores, the pores get irritated.

Do not treat your baby's acne with adult solutions! This can lead to endangering your child's health. The acne will usually disappear in a few weeks as long as you keep the irritated area clean, you can do this with your normal bathing routine.

When you first bring your baby home, practicing proper baby skin care can seem overwhelming. It will probably be tempting to over-bathe your baby. Caring for your infant's skin does not have to be that hard. It won't take long for you to realize that practicing proper baby skin care involves little more than basic common sense and keeping dirt and irritants away from your baby. You'll get the hang of it soon enough so don't panic.




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