Easy recipe for diaper salve?

[Lil Outlaws]

Anyone have a good recipe for a diaper salve? It cannot contain zinc or petroleum products, as they're not safe for cloth diapers.
Things that heal, protect, and form moisture barriers (as well as emollients to retain moisture) would be great..

I prefer less ingredients, as I'm limited in funds, but open to any recipes..

 

[topcat]

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Tanya

 

[Lil Outlaws]

Perfect, thank you! Now to get some soy wax....

 

[heartsong]

diaper

this has always been in demand in my family. i usually make 8 oz.

2 oz-25% natural beeswax
6 oz-75% olive oil
4- 1000-iu softgels of vit-e

a few drops each:

carrot seed oil
chamomile
calendula-or infuse the oil with extract www.fromnaturewithlove.com
lavender

gently melt and blend. you might have to adjust the beeswax a little but not much-it depends on the time of year.

great for elbows and any dry skin. the beeswax is a natural water barrier and healer.

 

[Sessan]

My latest (for my little cloth diapered girl) is simply 2 parts olive oil and 1 part lanolin.
Simple and efficient.

 

[Lil Outlaws]

My latest (for my little cloth diapered girl) is simply 2 parts olive oil and 1 part lanolin.
Simple and efficient.

YAYYYY I'm not the only CD'er!

Would that be more like a gel/cream than a salve/balm though? I have lanolin and OO, of course.. wondering if without the beeswax it would be runny? I'm hoping to add a balm to my store soon (after a lot of testing, certainly..)...

 

[busymammaof3]

Great Diaper Salve

I've been using this in my childcare.

Whipped Body Butter (Shea Butter & Jojoba Oil & tea tree oil)

I used my mother's nice, big dough mixer...using the ohh I can't recall what type of attachment it is. I took her dough hook attachment out and used this big, wide, flat white mixing attachtment and let it whip for quite a while, until it was the consistency I liked.

I like this on the little bottoms....because it replaces the petro products, isn't runny, melts gradually, as it's applied...and all 3 ingredients are wonderful for healing, soothing, killing bacteria and are great at penetrating deep down and keeping the bottom moisturized. It only takes a tiny bit, and doesn't cause any leaking (atleast in my experience).

And I usually end up massaging it onto the baby's feet and knees (especially if they're a crawler)...and then putting their socks back on.
They love the time spent doing that...and always go home diaper rash free, soft and clean! :0D

 

[Sessan]

My latest (for my little cloth diapered girl) is simply 2 parts olive oil and 1 part lanolin.
Simple and efficient.

YAYYYY I'm not the only CD'er!

Would that be more like a gel/cream than a salve/balm though? I have lanolin and OO, of course.. wondering if without the beeswax it would be runny? I'm hoping to add a balm to my store soon (after a lot of testing, certainly..)...

CD'ing rocks!

It probably is a little gel-like in consistency. I'm not quite sure, how firm a balm/salve is supposed to be... This is quite soft and spreadable - which I like - not runny at our temperatures though, but you could of course experiment with adding beeswax to firm it up.

I have previously used olive oil, beeswax and sheabutter - no lanolin. But in Denmark we do swear by lanolin in diaper salve/creams because of the healing/protective properties - and I really like the simplicity (and spreadability :wink: ) of the oo+lanolin recipe. Perhaps I'll infuse the oil with calendula next time...

 

[Tabitha]

I've been using this in my childcare.

Whipped Body Butter (Shea Butter & Jojoba Oil & tea tree oil)

I used whipped shea on my son, 3 parts shea & 1 part olive oil.

 

[Tabitha]

It can also be used on mom's nipples if they are sore from nursing because the shea & olive oil are both edible, incase baby gets some in his/her mouth.

 

[Lil Outlaws]

Well not that shea sounds tasty but I bet it's a heckuva lot better on nips than lanolin is!

I need to research and be sure shea and olive are CD friendly, I would hate to cause buildup and repelling (on my dipes or anybody else's!) - but if they're safe it sounds like a good bet!

Would a little beeswax harden it up into more of a balm/salve??

 

[busymammaof3]

I haven't made salves....but from all I have read...I would think so.
I know corn starch or any starch can be used if it's too oily. And I have read that beeswax helps harden. And of course you want to get the oil and butter ratio balanced right. I breastfed for a short time with all 3 of my children. I remember the pain associated with the dry and cracked nipples. I used lanolin. Man, I wish I was doing this sort of thing, back then! LOL