The industry produces a huge amount of cosmetic and hygiene products for baby skin care. One of the most traditional is baby powder; a caring mother buys a couple of bottles even before the baby is born. To fully care for delicate baby skin, parents need to know how to use baby powder.
Powder is one of the popular skincare products
Baby skin features
The skin of a baby is very different from the skin of an adult. First of all, it is delicate, smooth, and at the same time thinner. Its stratum corneum is immature, its structure is looser, and it contains much less moisture and lipids. These factors make the newborn’s skin easily vulnerable and insufficiently protected. It is unable to fully carry out thermoregulation and sweating, so it quickly becomes irritated by sweat, urine and feces.
Newborn skin is soft and silky
An additional risk factor for dermatological problems for young children is the high permeability of the dermal layer due to the different ratio of body weight to skin surface in adults and children (if the same amount of the substance is applied to the skin in adults, its concentration will be much lower), as well as an increased amount hair follicles per unit area. In infants, the skin's ability to remove substances from the body is reduced as a result of water-lipid imbalance.
What is powder used for?
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This cosmetic product can be used for:
- increasing the protection of the child’s delicate skin from the aggressive external environment;
- cooling;
- softening;
- absorption of sweat and sebaceous secretions from the skin surface (subsequently reducing sweating);
- helps eliminate diaper rash, redness and irritation and prevent the appearance of new ones.
Powder is needed to treat diaper rash
The principle of action of the powder is to effectively absorb moisture from the skin surface. By absorbing excess water and sebum, the powder relieves babies from diaper dermatitis, prickly heat or urticaria.
Baby powder against diaper rash and sweating
In hot weather, and during physical work, the gardener usually just sweats. This is not only unpleasant, but also dangerous. Painful blisters may appear on wet palms, unpleasant diaper rashes may appear under the folds of clothing, and wet abrasions and abrasions may appear on the folds of the arms and legs.
Before starting work, apply powder to the handles of gardening tools, which will prevent your hands from slipping during gardening and protect your palms from chafing and damage. In the same way, treat areas of the skin that are prone to excessive sweating and are in close contact with clothing - the bends of the limbs, the inner surface of the thighs, the neck, etc.
Classic baby powder composition
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Externally, the powder looks like a white or gray powder of uniform consistency. The components of the product vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, but there are always the main ingredients:
- starch (potato, corn, rice);
Additional Information. The last two options are most common.
- zinc (it is due to this that the powder has a drying effect);
- extracts from medicinal plants (usually chamomile or calendula), which impart wound healing properties.
Baby powder as a fabric freshener
If summer nights are excessively hot and humid, baby powder will again help prevent you from “sticking” to the sheets on your own bed. This product perfectly refreshes bed linen, absorbs sweat, and helps sheets and duvet covers remain tactilely cooler.
In the same way, baby powder acts on wet paper without damaging it. If, for example, books, playing cards, etc. are damp in your basement or attic. – their sheets can be carefully filled with powder and shaken lightly.
Quality and safety criteria
When caring for babies, you should use products with exclusively natural ingredients. The quality and safety of powder for children is determined by the absence of dyes, parabens and preservatives. The safest product will be one containing fewer components; for young children, the hypoallergenic nature of the product is also important.
If you plan to use powder immediately from birth, it is necessary to protect the baby’s respiratory organs, as well as his eyes, from contact with the powder. As soon as the toddler begins to make voluntary movements, the bottle with powder should be removed away from his crib to avoid accidental spillage.
Types of baby powders
Baby powders are divided into two groups based on appearance:
- In the form of loose powder. This powder preparation has increased antiseptic and deodorizing properties, is able to easily absorb moisture, cool damaged skin areas, and reduce the level of friction of the diaper on the baby’s delicate body. The powder has a whitish or grayish tint and is slightly greasy to the touch. The advantage of this type of powder is that it is quite cheap and accessible.
Powdered powder
- In the form of liquid talc. It has an anti-inflammatory and softening effect on the skin of the baby. Its advantage is its ease of use, because it cannot spill out of the bottle, like powder, and it cannot get into the nose or eyes. When it gets on the baby’s body, such talc forms a protective film and does not roll into unpleasant lumps in folds.
Linen freshener
The problem of wet sheets is especially relevant in the summer, when we sweat a lot during our sleep. To quickly freshen your bedding, sprinkle a small amount of baby powder on your bed. It will absorb moisture and the sheets will become fresh and velvety to the touch.
If you find it unpleasant to sleep feeling fine powder on your skin, then there is an alternative. Make the bed with a thick sheet over which you will spread the talc. As soon as you are done with the powder, lay out a second sheet - thin, ideally chintz.
Which is better: powder or cream?
Many young mothers think about what is better to use: powder or cream to care for the skin of their babies? Based on the fact that these skincare products solve slightly different problems, it is most effective to use them in order.
The powder does its job perfectly when used under a diaper. However, if a child grows up without diapers or uses them occasionally, the powder may dry out his skin. In such cases, it is better to abandon the use of this cosmetic product in favor of a baby cream, which is applied to the folds and other problem areas of the baby’s skin and creates a protective barrier against diaper rash there, as well as moisturizes the skin.
Baby powder is a record holder for multifunctionality
All kinds of life hacks (that is, various tricks that eliminate certain everyday problems) are in great fashion today. Basically, they are based on using things for other purposes - for example, sharpening a knife not with a sharpener, as it should, but using the side of a matchbox, or instead of putting on gloves on a cold day, putting paper bags in your coat pockets and warming your hands in them .
But if such life hacks are more like a stupid joke, then the use of baby powder in everyday life really amazes the imagination. Having studied all these methods, it seems that this substance is one of the most indispensable in the household.
And if we take into account the fact that powder often turns out to be much cheaper than the corresponding product, then the temptation to replace everything that is possible with it becomes even stronger.
How to choose a product
With a wide variety of types of baby powders and creams in stores, it is difficult to make the right choice. Parents must understand that a high-quality and safe product will be completely natural.
Pediatricians believe that you shouldn’t even pay attention to baby care products that contain only ingredients identical to natural ones, as well as scented ones (which can cause allergies in a child).
The consistency should be uniform, without any inclusions or granules. Abbreviations such as:
- BBP;
- DBP;
- DEP;
- DEHP;
- DHP;
- DIDP
should not appear on the packaging of the correct powder product.
Also, typos, damage to the packaging layer, lack of information about the manufacturer, expiration date and date of manufacture of the product are undesirable. All these are indicators of counterfeits that can be potentially dangerous to the baby’s health.
With a variety of brands of powder, it is important to make the right choice
Advice. You should be very careful when ordering baby cosmetics online.
Experts advise choosing powders from well-known and trusted manufacturers who use only good raw materials. At the same time, you should not buy many bottles at once, because the product may not be suitable for a particular child.
How to choose a safe baby powder
Powders that do not contain talc and are made from corn or rice starch and flour do not raise any suspicion. You can also use lycopodium - the spores of club mosses. If you take a powder containing talc in its composition, then you must be completely confident in the integrity of the manufacturer. To produce baby powders, asbestos-free talc must be used.
The law of few ingredients is also true for children's cosmetics. Choose a powder with a small list of ingredients. It is advisable that all the ingredients are clear to you.
Some powders contain fragrance - this is extremely undesirable for a child. Strong odors surrounding a baby can disrupt his eating behavior and relationships with loved ones, and disrupt his orientation. Up to a certain age, smell is the leading sensory system in an infant. The child recognizes the mother by her voice and smell. By smell he finds the breast. Choose unscented powder.
How to use
To effectively care for your baby’s skin, it’s not enough to stock up on the right baby powder for newborns, you need to know how to use it. For example, you should absolutely not sprinkle powder directly on the baby’s skin, especially in the groin area (be it a boy or a girl).
Pediatricians and dermatologists recommend using powder no more than 2 times a day: after waking up in the morning and in the evening after swimming (with the exception of hot periods, when you can use it again).
The baby's skin should be as dry as possible, because if it is wet, the powder will roll into lumps and cause irritation, and will also lose its adsorbing effect. A layer of powder that is too thick will quickly crumble and its use will be ineffective.
If there are pustular lesions on the baby’s skin, the product cannot be used, as this may worsen the deposits. Also, you should not mix powder and baby cream on one area of the baby’s skin, because they have exactly the opposite effects: drying and moisturizing. Do not apply powder to the skin of the butt that has just been cleansed with an oil product.
Important! If your baby is almost always in disposable diapers, too much powder can clog their pores, which will dramatically reduce the absorbent properties of the material.
The selected powder should first be poured onto a warm palm or cotton pad. After this, the product is carefully distributed over the surface of the baby’s body.
Note! The areas of the armpits and skin folds must be treated especially carefully. Do not put pressure on the baby's skin.
In addition, the powder is applied to the baby's groin area, neck folds and elbows, since increased sweating is also observed in these places.
Liquid cream-talc in the form of a lotion quickly penetrates the thermal cover and forms a delicate layer on it. It is applied first to the hand (a few drops), then with stroking movements - to the child’s skin. Talc in the form of a spray is simply sprayed from 10-15 cm above the baby’s bottom. If you use the product correctly, a positive effect can be noticed after 4-5 days of use.
Baby powder price, where to buy
The price of Baby Powder from Sintez OJSC is considered very affordable. It can be bought at regular pharmacies. Moreover, it is much cheaper than its foreign counterparts. The price of Baby Powder is about 30 rubles.
- Online pharmacies in RussiaRussia
- Online pharmacies in UkraineUkraine
- Online pharmacies in KazakhstanKazakhstan
ZdravCity
- Nasha Mama baby powder 100g (8510) Nasha Mama LLC
187 RUR order - Baby powder external 40gOJSC Sintez
74 RUR order
- Sanosan baby powder 100g (985166)Mann & Schroeder GmbH
RUB 303 order
- Klinsa baby powder, 50g bottle Fitoros LLC
57 RUR order
- Klinsa baby powder, bottle 100g Fitoros LLC
91 rub. order
Pharmacy Dialogue
- Baby powder (40g) Sintez (Kurgan) OJSC
66 RUR order
- Baby powder (30g with chamomile)Petrofarm
29 RUR order
- Baby powder (40g) Samaramedprom
23 RUR order
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Pharmacy24
- Baby powder “Kapitoshka” 100g TOV Vidrodzhennia, LTD, Ukraine
18 UAH order - Baby powder "Kapitoshka" 100 g with a series of TOV "Vidrodzhennia, LTD", Ukraine
20 UAH order
- Baby powder “Kapitoshka” 100g with chamomile TOV Vidrodzhennia, LTD, Ukraine
20 UAH order
- Johnson's Baby baby powder 100 g Johnson & Johnson Limited, Thailand
72 UAH order
- Baby powder 50 g PAT "Vitamin" Ukraine
10 UAH.order
PaniPharmacy
- Baby powder Nezha with vit. A and E 100g Ukraine, Farmakom
26 UAH order
- Baby powder Pushok 100g Ukraine, Farmakom PTF LLC
23 UAH order
- Baby powder Pushok with celandine 100g Ukraine, Farmakom PTF LLC
25 UAH order
- Karapuz Baby powder Chamomile 50g Ukraine, Karapuz LLC
22 UAH order
- BUBCHEN baby powder 100g Germany, Bubchen
96 UAH order
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Cautions for using powder
When using any product to care for a child, the required level of safety must be observed. So, for allergic children, for whom neither industrial powders nor cosmetic creams are suitable, pediatricians recommend using corn starch; its consistency is the same powdery as powder.
You should also avoid getting the product on open wounds, including the umbilical, flaking and weeping areas. There is no need to constantly use powder - for healthy and clean skin it is needed only during hot periods.
Baby powder is a vaporous medicinal and cosmetic product used in pediatrics to care for the delicate skin of an infant. It usually consists of talc, zinc oxide and starch. Why do you need powder for newborns? It absorbs excess moisture from the baby's skin, thereby protecting it from diaper rash.
Non-standard ways to use powder
A promised bonus, especially for those who bought powder but did not use it and for those who have quite a lot of powder left.
Baby powder is a great helper around the house!
- Colorless powder for makeup
- First aid for greasy stains
- Dry shampoo is always useful when traveling and on business trips, as well as for animals
- Excellent deodorant for body and shoes + good against chafing between the legs
- Skin protection after depilation or epilation
- Helps remove sand and small shells from the body after the beach. Powder absorbs sweat and makes the body slippery
- Keeps the bed fresh on a hot summer night
- Mix 100 ml of soda and 50-100 ml of baby powder in a plastic bag, put 2-3 soft toys that cannot be washed in the bag, and shake vigorously. The toys will become clean!
- Helps clean books from mold and old odors
- Spray flower bulbs with powder before planting - this will repel pests and control mold.
This is how you can use the remaining powder, because some copies are quite expensive and it’s a shame to throw them away.
