The skin is said to be a very large organ in our body. It is in fact the largest and so it is important we pay attention to it. I'm not all that into cosmetics or creams, I stick to one product for my skin.

Hello moms and dads of hive! How are you all doing today?

What cream or lotion do you use for your baby's skin? Because whether cream or lotion, I don't do both anymore for my own skin and I easily transferred the same treatment to my baby.

I'm someone that sweat a lot. Its frustrating sometimes but I guess its one of the things to deal with when you have dry skin. Or should I say, its the reason I have super dry skin. Either ways, I sweat a lot and I can't stand most creams. I long gave up on using creams as I settled for olive oil. I'd choose oils over cream any day because hey,so far so good! I totally recommend it for dry skin.

While shopping for my baby's things during my last month of pregnancy, we got this set of baby skin care kit that had everything including baby lotion. I won't be mentioning the name of the product because I'm not here to run anybody's business down. But yeah, the kit got everything we need and though it was on a costlier side we choose it because we want 'the best' for our baby. What we didn't realize was that 'the best' didn't have to be the most expensive among its peers. So it happened that 'the best' got my baby's skin reacting in some way. Aside from the fact that it made her sweat a lot, it also gave her some rashes. Did I say some? This cream totally spoilt my baby's whole fore head down to the neck region with these rashes that look like little airbags that can only burst by it's self and peel away over time. It just broke my heart.

And so I decided she'd use oils only, just like me. We started off using olive oil for her but I stumbled upon an article online that discouraged daily use of olive oil and so I stopped.

Coconut oil would have been the next bet but the fact that it oxidizes easily which make it have a slight change in smell that I can't stand, made me settle for shear butter. A fresh, clean shear butter almost has no smell. Funny, how some people can't stand the 'smell' of shear butter. I prefer it to the smell of oxidized coconut oil if you ask me.

My baby is one year old now and these days we both use this popular shear butter mix available in our local store over here. And I'm loving it so far. Its has a lovely scent and a great feel on the skin.

Just this afternoon I was taking stock of how many of this product we have used over the last 6 months and I was surprised to know that we have used about four of these fat containers.

How so? Well like I said, I use oils for my skin too. So we share it. Since its an oil, we use it for all purpose. That is, on our hair, skin, lips and all. Its a case of one does it all. Now, I keep a natural type 4c kinky hair that takes most of this shear butter. It helps make it soft and moisturized to reduce breakage.

The best part of this experience so far is that the shear butter is 4times less expensive than the creams we use. Now that's a whole lot of money saved if you add the fact that I was going to be buying two of these creams or lotion for us.

Now this is what works for us (baby and I). Excessive sweating is put to check and I love that. Different strokes for different folks. Anyways, let me know in the comment section what works for you too.

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