Safe Products for Dry Skin

If you missed last weeks blog be sure to check out part one that kicked off these few weeks about petroleum skin care products. People LOVE Aquaphor. They swear by it for a variety of things-much like petroleum jelly. I once bought a huge jar of it (cringe) years ago when my daughter was getting eczema on her legs. Later we learned she was allergic to apples and that solved that problem.  Shortly Safe products for Dry Chapped Skinafter my purchase years ago I switched to oil moisturizers and that solved our dry skin issues.

Unfortunately moisturizer alone wasn’t keeping up with my son’s awful skin reactions to the toilet seat. Yes, you read that correctly-details in last weeks blog if you missed the crazy allergy. Aquaphor was suggested to me by many people (along with petroleum jelly) to heal his bottom.

What is In Aquaphor?

Aquaphor contains the same main ingredient: petrolatum.

Petroleum: This can cause organ toxicity (non-reproductive) and scores a 4 on the toxic scale according to EWG. http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/product/1723/Aquaphor_Healing_Ointment/

Lanolin alcohol: up next with a 3 rating. Derived from sheep glands-it is often an allergen without proven effectiveness.

Mineral oil: Another ingredient that is from hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum. Mineral oil lists cancer among its concerns along with developmental toxicity and allergens.

There are several other ingredients that rate fairly safe so averaging out the overall rating toxin wise to a 2. Does Aquaphor work? Yes. Everyone I know swears by it and when I used to use it I was a fan. Will I use an unsustainable or petroleum product on my child’s skin? Nope.

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