Mother and Baby Care
Try these recipes and tips to pamper yourself and your baby!
Wheat Germ and Honey Skin Cream
Ingredients
 | 2 teaspoons dried mint, sage, and rosemary
| 1/2 ounce beeswax
| 2 ounces lanolin
| 1/2 cup wheat germ oil
| 1 teaspoon honey
| 1/2 cup boiling water
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- Instructions
- Put dried herbs in a cup or mug. Pour boiling water over and stir. Steep for
ten minutes. Strain out the herbs and leave remaining "tea" to cool.
- Melt beeswax and lanolin in heatproof glass in simmering water. Add the wheat germ oil.
- Continue stirring and add the herb tea very slowly. Remove from heat and add honey.
- Stir until creamy and transfer into containers.
- Melt beeswax and lanolin in heatproof glass in simmering water. Add the wheat germ oil.
This cream lasts about 3 months-longer if refrigerated. It is good for both
mother and baby's over a year old. (Just in case...because of the added honey.)
Belly Oil
Ingredients
| 1 tablespoon sweet almond oil
| 1 tablespoon wheat germ oil
| 2 tablespoons jojoba oil
| 3 drops lavender essential oil
| 3 drops tangerine essential oil
| 3 drops rose geranium essential oil
| 10 drops carrot seed oil
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- Instructions
- Mix all ingredients together. Shake before each use. Massage into belly area or anywhere skin is itchy or marked.
This blend of oils stops the itch from the stretching of skin-it may also minimize
the appearance of stretch marks later.
Herb Balm for Baby
Ingredients
| 1 cup sweet almond oil
| 3 tablespoons dried lavender blossoms
| 1 tablespoon dried calendula petals
| 1 tablespoon dried rose petals
| 1 teaspoon dried chamomile flowers
| 2 tablespoons (10,000 IU) vitamin E oil
| 1 1/2 teaspoons jojoba oil
| 4 drops lavender essential oil
| 5 tablespoons beeswax
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- Instructions
- Grind all dry ingredients finely and mix until uniform. Warm the almond
oil in the top of a double boiler. Add the powdered herbs and cook over
medium heat for 40 minutes.
- Put vitamin E, jojoba and essential oil in glass bowl. Place a coffee filter inside a wire strainer. Hold this over the bowl and pour the oil/herb mixture to strain into the bowl.
- Melt the beeswax and whisk slowly into oil mixture until thick.
- Sterilize cosmetics or baby food jars. Fill jars. Keep one out for use and refrigerate the rest.
- Put vitamin E, jojoba and essential oil in glass bowl. Place a coffee filter inside a wire strainer. Hold this over the bowl and pour the oil/herb mixture to strain into the bowl.
Use this balm on baby's bottom or any dry skin spots on hands and feet.
Diaper Rash Soap
Ingredients
| 2 cups glycerin soap base
| 3 tablespoons slippery elm powder
| 1 tablespoon vegetable glycerin
| 1 tablespoon balsam of Peru oil
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- Instructions
- Stir together, slippery elm powder, vegetable glycerin and oil. Melt grated glycerin soap base over double boiler on low. Stir elm powder mixture into melted base until uniform. Pour into molds.
Use this soap for baby's bath to prevent or help heal diaper rash.
