For travel baby wipes, sodium lauryl sulfate and propylene glycol are the two most problematic ingredients. These substances can cause baby skin irritation, mucous membrane irritation, and dry skin. It may also cause genetic changes as well. Thus, if these substances are composed in baby wipes, it could be very harmful to your baby. Other chemicals to avoid are polyethylene glycol (PEG), ethanolamines, alcohol, fragrance, and parabens. PEG will cause dry skin of your baby and identified as a potential carcinogen. Thus, this should be avoided. Other substances are hormone-disrupting substances which are toxic and can cause cancer. Therefore, all these substances should be avoided when choosing your baby travel wipes.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Travel Baby Wipes
For travel baby wipes, sodium lauryl sulfate and propylene glycol are the two most problematic ingredients. These substances can cause baby skin irritation, mucous membrane irritation, and dry skin. It may also cause genetic changes as well. Thus, if these substances are composed in baby wipes, it could be very harmful to your baby. Other chemicals to avoid are polyethylene glycol (PEG), ethanolamines, alcohol, fragrance, and parabens. PEG will cause dry skin of your baby and identified as a potential carcinogen. Thus, this should be avoided. Other substances are hormone-disrupting substances which are toxic and can cause cancer. Therefore, all these substances should be avoided when choosing your baby travel wipes.
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Baby Wipes | Warming Baby Wipes
If you travel with your baby to some cold places, you may consider warming your baby travel wipes. Usually, you do not have to warm your baby wipes at usual temperature. There are several ways to warm baby wipes. The first method is to use a hair dryer. You set your hair dryer to its lowest heat level and blow directly to your baby wipes for a few seconds. Do not do this for too long to overheat the baby wipes. If you want, you can also buy an electric wipe warmer. It may be handy, but will cost you something. Because most family has at least one hair dryer, so why not use the hair dryer instead. Another alternative is to use your bare hands. Just hold your baby travel wipes in your hands for a moment, your body temperature may good enough to warm it up a bit. All these three little tricks will help your baby feel more comfortable when using the baby wipes.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Baby Travel Wipes
If you have a baby, you will understand how much work is required for cleaning up the stuffs for your baby. Baby travel wipes will greatly reduce your efforts and time for this purpose. In general, you have two options. One is to make your own baby travel wipes, and the other option is to purchase those available on the market.
No matter which option you choose, you have to know which substances are not good to your baby. To make sure that the baby travel wipes are not harmful to your baby, you have to check whether they contain alcohol, perfume, chlorine, methyl, butyl, and/or dioxin. These are harmful substances to your baby. Many popular brands available in the markets use foaming agents such as SLS and Parabens. A research study conducted in England has indicated that these chemicals are toxic to baby. However, no conclusive results are available for telling us what the long term effects of using these substances from a daily basis.
As a parent, we want to give the best to your baby, and protect your baby from harmful substances. Thus, it is important for you to make sure that the baby travel wipes you using do not contain these substances. For those commercial ones, Seventh Generation - Baby wipes is one of the brands that is alcohol-free, contains non-chlorine bleached, and unscented. For unscented baby wipes, you can also pick Huggies, pampers, or Teddy. Another available brand is Natracare, which is a brand advocates organic cotton baby wipes. This brand is free of those harmful chemical ingredients such as SLS, synthetic preservatives, and petroleum materials. According to their descriptions, they are made purely from organic plant-based ingredients only. So you have many choices available in the markets.
If possible, the best solution for you is to make your own cloth baby wipes. You can control the substances to be used for making your own baby travel wipes. In deed, it is not too complicated to make one yourself. What you need is some soft and light weight baby blankets; cut them into smaller pieces that fit the sizes of your baby; dampen them in warm water; add some lavender essential oil which helps to protect your baby from skin irritation. These are all you need to do. Easy enough, isn’t it?
Ok so these are the options for you. Now you should have some ideas of what to avoid. If you have time, making your own brand baby travel wipes is fun and one of the best choices for your baby as well.
Baby Travel Wipes
No matter which option you choose, you have to know which substances are not good to your baby. To make sure that the baby travel wipes are not harmful to your baby, you have to check whether they contain alcohol, perfume, chlorine, methyl, butyl, and/or dioxin. These are harmful substances to your baby. Many popular brands available in the markets use foaming agents such as SLS and Parabens. A research study conducted in England has indicated that these chemicals are toxic to baby. However, no conclusive results are available for telling us what the long term effects of using these substances from a daily basis.
As a parent, we want to give the best to your baby, and protect your baby from harmful substances. Thus, it is important for you to make sure that the baby travel wipes you using do not contain these substances. For those commercial ones, Seventh Generation - Baby wipes is one of the brands that is alcohol-free, contains non-chlorine bleached, and unscented. For unscented baby wipes, you can also pick Huggies, pampers, or Teddy. Another available brand is Natracare, which is a brand advocates organic cotton baby wipes. This brand is free of those harmful chemical ingredients such as SLS, synthetic preservatives, and petroleum materials. According to their descriptions, they are made purely from organic plant-based ingredients only. So you have many choices available in the markets.
If possible, the best solution for you is to make your own cloth baby wipes. You can control the substances to be used for making your own baby travel wipes. In deed, it is not too complicated to make one yourself. What you need is some soft and light weight baby blankets; cut them into smaller pieces that fit the sizes of your baby; dampen them in warm water; add some lavender essential oil which helps to protect your baby from skin irritation. These are all you need to do. Easy enough, isn’t it?
Ok so these are the options for you. Now you should have some ideas of what to avoid. If you have time, making your own brand baby travel wipes is fun and one of the best choices for your baby as well.
Baby Travel Wipes
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