Thank you so much for your time!

Karolina

I am obsessed with the smell of Noodle & Boo’s super soft lotion for babies, can you please advice if it is Good Stuff or if it’s at least Okay Stuff??? I am hoping and praying it is because I absolutely love the smell of it for my newborn baby girl!!!

Please advise, thanks!

Bathing less, as in once a week should not cause any diseases 🙄
I shower nightly as I work in a dental office, but most of us would benefit from not bathing daily as it would help retain moisture and help maintain beneficial skin flora. Not bathing daiiy doesn’t mean you don’t wash your hands, face or any other body parts that might need cleaning.

I just posted a comment yesterday but Weleda has carrageenan. Isn’t that bad stuff?

I’d call it Good Stuff:)

Welled is basically Good Stuff:)

Hi Maia ,

Can you please update this list. EWG now says some of the products are much better than listed previously and even certified them. Did you do any research on Attitude products ?

Thanks.

I am wondering the same as Kelly! I used the Acure bare baby for a while but read they were discontinuing the baby line. So I switched to the acure simply unscented instead…but that too is now impossible to find. Whole Foods and Amazon used to readily carry it but not anymore. Very frustrating. Now I see the same occurrence with Eco-Me laundry detergent. Every favorite of ours. Super depressing.

Thanks!

Thanks!

Thank you so much for your thorough reply, John! I will stick with the “good stuff” products previously recommended!
Megan

Hi Megan,
John here from Gimme the Good Stuff…
Thanks for the kind words about our work and website.

Unfortunately the Puracy line does not appear to qualify as “Good Stuff”.

BENZISOTHIAZOLINONE is a skin lung and eye irritant. It is also associated with allergic reactions and has immunotoxicity/ecotoxicology concerns.

“Natural Fragrance” is a very broad term that can obfuscate what is actually in their “proprietary” blend. Generally speaking, anything with the word “fragrance” is suspect for containing phthalates and I could not help but notice that when they list what is NOT in their products, they do not list phthalates. That is a big concern.

PHENOXYETHANOL has a fairly high concern for organ system toxicity.

TOCOPHERYL ACETATE is associated with allergies, immunotoxicity, cancer and ecotoxicology.

Puracy, at first glance, looks exactly like the reason we started Gimme the Good Stuff. It is marketed directly to folks who wish to avoid concerning chemistry but, in fact, has a fair amount of concerning chemistry. Remember that no amount of nontoxic ingredients in a product erases the toxic ones.

You can contact me directly at john@gimmethegoodstuff.org to discuss this further. I’d be happy to help you (and thus your patients) find the Good Stuff.

Best,
John

Also, what are your thoughts on the brand 100% Pure? These are their ingredients for their baby lotion: Aloe Barbadensis (Organic Aloe Juice) Leaf Extract*, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Glyceryl Stearate, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Vegetable Glycerin, Euphorbia Cerifera (Candelilla) Wax, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter), Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract, Tocopherol (Vitamin E), Theobroma Cacao (Organic Cocoa) Seed Butter*, Citrus Nobilis (Mandarin Orange) Peel Oil, Anthemis Nobilis (Chamomile) Flower Oil, Lonicera Caprifolium Flower and Lonicera Japonica (Honeysuckle) Flower Extract, Citral**, Limonene** and Linalool** * Certifed Organic ** Component of Natural Essential Oil

Ingredients: Purified water; organic extracts of chamomile, calendula (marigold), and comfrey; vegetable glycerine, shea butter; coconut butter; soy extract; retinyl palmitate (vitamin A); ascorbyl palmitate (vitamin C); tocopherol (vitamin E); phenoxytol (green tea); grapefruit seed extract.

https://www.vitacost.com/rainbow-research-baby-oh-baby-body-lotion-unscented-16-fl-oz?isrc=ppd:carousel1:pos1:000518200244

“Fluoride is a highly toxic substance. … In terms of acute toxicity (i.e., the dose that can cause immediate toxic consequences), fluoride is more toxic than lead, but slightly less toxic than arsenic. This is why fluoride has long been used in rodenticides and pesticides to kill pests like rats and insects.
Fluoride Action Network | Health Effects
fluoridealert.org/issues/health/”

I was wondering you thoughts regarding Sophie La Giraffe baby lotion?

Thanks

I was wondering your thoughts on the young living essential oils line for babies? They have lotion and baby wash…
thank you in advance

Just a couple of meaningless form letters from Kiehl’s.

I was purchasing the Babo botanicals lotions off a well known website and before I went to check out a notification warned me about proposition 65, noting that the product contained an ingredient included on the prop list. I checked the lotion on the skin deep website and there were no warinings of cancerous or developmental issues. Do you know why this came up?

Thanks

I think it’s fine:)

overall, I think Honest is fine.

I completely disagree about bathing once a weekly be unsanitary. I have 4 children under 7. Never had hand foot and mouth and I only bathe them once a week, and wash hair less frequent then that. Hand and face washing we do very often. My newborn is 2 months and I have only washed her 3X. Once with soap in bath, twice with bath and warm water and wash cloth. All have good skin and we are never sick. No colds or flus in the last year! Cheers

I would like to know as well! I am using the Live Clean Kids shampoo and body wash currently, and it says it is “Hypoallergenic, pediatrician tested and 96% plant derived”, so I’m curious!

(I want to start purchasing for the baby, as I’m in my third trimester now. :O )

We have been using Live Clean too so I would be interested to know as well. Thank you!

Calendula is listed as a toxic item for pregnant women so it’s confusing that many of the baby items have this and EOs but yet those are listed as problematic for pregnant mamas.

Don’t know that brand but will add to our list for a future investigation!

I don’t like this brand–sorry!

For the most part I consider Aveeno Sneaky Stuff.

In general, I consider Weleda to be Good Stuff. It does have a few ingredients that EWG doesn’t love, but nothing that I’m overly concerned about.

Here is a post about safe products and treatments for eczema: https://gimmethegoodstuff.org/natural-eczema-treatment-for-babies-kids/

Earth Mama Angel Baby has a baby massage oil that is completely safe and non-toxic and scores safely. It’s awesome, I use it on my own baby!

Earth Mama Angel Baby has a baby massage oil that is completely safe and non-toxic and scores safely.

Thought sebamed lotion is good and what about aveeno

Will add to our list for research!

This hands down! It’s a miracle product: https://gimmethegoodstuff.org/store/sierra-sage-organic-baby-balm/

I’m not a fan of this petroleum-derived product.

Shea Moisture is for the most part Good Stuff, and I just took a quick look at the Aleva wipes and didn’t love what I saw (PEG chemical, for one). Baby Mantra is fine (although definitely not 100% natural).

CA Baby is Good Stuff, as are all of the Better Life products:)

I consider it Sneaky Stuff. It uses organic calendula but still has a bunch of chemical ingredients.

Is Cetaphil was good?

I think the Shea line is fine:).

Thank you

Tina Parker
4339 St Rt 122
Franklin Ohio 45005

Don’t know that one! Will investigate.

I don’t know that brand but will look into it!

Yes, any powder that is free of fragrance and uses cornstarch is probably Good Stuff:)

I consider J&J Bad or Sneaky Stuff, based on my research.

Thank you for the response!

From the easily accessible lotions “Shea Moisture Raw Shea Chamomile & Argan Oil Baby Healing Lotion” seems to be good. Earth mama has good lotions but as mentioned before they just don’t score 0 on EWG, in fact non of the baby lotions do. From online stores Terressentials have an organic baby line but unfortunately they’re not rated on EWG. If you have any thoughts on that brand as well as Shea Moisture, would be nice to hear them. While I understand you can disagree on certain points with EWG, you do
use them as a point of reference, so it can get confusing for your readers to see something that’s rated highly by you to be rated poorly there.

While EWG is an incredible resource for the research we do here at Gimme the Good Stuff, I don’t always agree with their assessments. Sometimes I like a brand that they do not, and vice versa. While we mostly agree on which products are bad and which are good, there are exceptions. Did you have specific lotion brands in mind you would like to recommend? Thanks for your comments!

EWG has Babo lotions with the score of 3, and no Earth Mama Angel Baby lotions score below 1. Why not update the information on your page and maybe look into advertising other products with less hazardous levels?

If it were my child, and this was the only thing that worked, I would not worry about the thuja.

I think it’s Okay Stuff. You can see here that EWG gives it a moderately hazardous score: https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/product/592817/Tom's_of_Maine_Baby_Lotion%2C_Lightly_Scented/
However, the highest score comes from “fragrance,” which EWG has wrong (Tom’s baby lotion is naturally scented).

I think this is probably the lotion you mean? https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/product/574234/Babo_Botanicals_Moisturizing_Baby_Lotion%2C_Oatmilk_Calendula
EWG gives it a 3 out of 10, and the only ingredients that score higher than a 2 are emulsifying wax and potassium sorbate. In this case of the former, EWG is rating “emulsifying wax” as a 4, when what this lotion contains is “vegetable emulsifying wax NF.” These are in fact two different ingredients, and the NF version is less concerning. Potassium sorbate is a food-grade preservative that I wouldn’t want in my food, but which doesn’t worry in skincare products, especially in very small concentrations. All this said, Babo is not 100% natural, and if you want something that has fewer ingredients and is more natural–but still feels like a lotion rather than an oil/balm–I love this: https://gimmethegoodstuff.org/store/farmaesthetics-nourishing-lavender-milk/

What are your thought on Mom of 11 Kids No Time For Eczema? My son suffers from eczema on his chest and this is the only natural ointment we have found to work on him (we’ve tried everything else from coconut oil to switching to laundry soap to Sierra Sage, etc). My only concern is it contains Thuja, which I’ve read might be neurotoxic?

Thanks for your great research!

Mel

Either of those are Good Stuff:)

That line is a mix of Okay Stuff and Sneaky Stuff, depending on the specific product.

For the most part, we consider Shea Moisture Good Stuff (you can see our review of the baby wash here:https://gimmethegoodstuff.org/safe-product-guides/baby-wash/)

For eczema specifically, this post will be helpful: https://gimmethegoodstuff.org/natural-eczema-treatment-for-babies-kids/

I hadn’t heard of this brand before, but I just checked it out. Unfortunately, it has lots of yucky ingredients in it.

Yes, we love the Lavender Milk:)

I’d consider it Good Stuff (don’t love dimethicone, but otherwise no problematic ingredients).

We have not yet done a thorough review of baby oil. One safe brand that people love is Beautycounter’s: http://www.beautycounter.com/suzanneweaver-goss?goto=kids%2Fbaby%2Fbaby-soothing-oil.html

Both Honest Co. and Shea Moisture have ingredients that basically check out as Good or at least Okay Stuff.

This! https://gimmethegoodstuff.org/store/sierra-sage-dry-skin-care-with-calendula-flowers/

What would you recommend for baby eczema? Thanks!

Erica

Did you get the time to review baby oils? If not, do you recommend any good stuff?

Thank you

They are the Worst !!

What about honest or shea? Are they safe for any?

Unfortunately, it’s bad stuff in my opinion.

That is actually not true. My son suffered from eczema and the dermatologist as well as the pediatrician all recommended only bathing him once a week or “if needed”. They specifically said babies hardly get dirty and the constant soap/water dries out their skin

https://www.poofyorganics.com/search.aspx?searchterms=Delightfully+unscented+

I recommend you check out Babo, Earth Mama, and Acure (the first and the last of those are available on this site).

Yes, California Baby is fine:)

Good stuff:)

I agree – I am always remiss to believe something until I see sources (from a research org that I trust.)

I’m not sure where this reviewer is getting his/her info. There is no evidence to suggest that glucose oxidase nor lactoperoxidase are carcinogenic. You can check EWG’s Skin Deep database for more info on both of these ingredients.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1NDYYKFHHPKHC/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B001KYEZ2E#R1NDYYKFHHPKHC

“I went out of my way to find a lotion that has nothing like chemicals or carcinogens. This product has two ingredients; lactoperoxidase and glucose oxidase which are both preservatives. Lactoperoxidase creates hydrogen peroxide when used and was thought to kill bacteria back in the 90’s. In fact there is little to NO evidence of this chemical ever being tested for ANY reaction on humans! It basically creates “free radicals” that cause cancer. Glucose oxidase has the same situation going on with it; No data on it anywhere in cosmetics! To hear that something in your lotion is carcinogenic just makes me mad! I am a mother of two and I have never found a lotion that was actually worth it including this one! All of my information is brought to you by google search and wikipedia.”

What do you think about this review?

Actually it looks like they have an old formula and a new one. I am currently speaking in regards to the “Babo Botanicals Moisturizing Baby Lotion”. Is it true that there is an old formula and the one you have above is a newer one?

Thanks Maia,

Guy

And what a pretty name! I appreciate the study, research and hard work that goes into all of this for I do these type of thing’s myself when it comes to caring for ones’s family. I have a question regarding Babo Botanicals for I am finding that it is on Skin Deep rating of 3..http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/search.php?query=babo+botanicals+moisturizing+baby+lotion

Just wanted to comment that I still use the Poofy Baby Lotion, and their Ciao Eczema one as well. They can be somewhat challenging to locate on the Poofy site though. 🙂