What would you use instead of olive oil on baby's skin?

hamilton.ja

In the UK it was always recommended to use pharmaceutical olive oil (that you bought at the drug store, not the grocery store) for massage and just for a regular moisturizer on newborn skin. I loved it with DS and would like to use it again with DD but short of having a friend ship some over I can't figure out how... I can't even find any online to buy here. And I'm honestly not sure she'd be allowed to ship it anyway.

So would you use just regular olive oil, something else? I want to stay away from nut oils because of allergies but am open to ideas otherwise. 

kelbrian

Burt's Bees sells an apricot oil for babies. I'd probably use that.

Soyager

Is this a sufficient oil? It says "for cosmetic use only."

What about grapeseed oil?

I don't know anything about this, just throwing out ideas...

qtsreign

avocado oil is very rich- similiar to olive oil.

welshgirl

We were never told about pharmaceutical grade oil - just plain olive oil. So I just had a bottle of Tesco organic olive oil. In fact, the HV in baby massage just said any oil you can buy in the store (rape seed, etc) would be good. 

hamilton.ja

welshgirl:

We were never told about pharmaceutical grade oil - just plain olive oil. So I just had a bottle of Tesco organic olive oil. In fact, the HV in baby massage just said any oil you can buy in the store (rape seed, etc) would be good. 

So funny how each trust and really each HV/Midwife/nurse/whatever in the UK is different.... we were told specifically to get it at the pharmacy. They even told a story about a new mom who just used whatever she had in her cupboard and how the HV came to visit and they though the baby had some weird skin thing becuase the skin had a green tinge! haha. Bizarro...

ok my pregnancy brain just got the better of me and I can't remember who posted the link to the olive oil they found but that would be perfect! thank you!

welshgirl

hamilton.ja:

welshgirl:

We were never told about pharmaceutical grade oil - just plain olive oil. So I just had a bottle of Tesco organic olive oil. In fact, the HV in baby massage just said any oil you can buy in the store (rape seed, etc) would be good. 

So funny how each trust and really each HV/Midwife/nurse/whatever in the UK is different.... we were told specifically to get it at the pharmacy. They even told a story about a new mom who just used whatever she had in her cupboard and how the HV came to visit and they though the baby had some weird skin thing becuase the skin had a green tinge! haha. Bizarro...

ok my pregnancy brain just got the better of me and I can't remember who posted the link to the olive oil they found but that would be perfect! thank you!

That's because you were with all the posh southerners... ;-)

Do you know what the difference is between pharma and non?

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*speedracer*

ditto on the coconut oil.  i get the cold pressed kind (not for high temp cooking) and it smells/feels lovely on the skin.

Alibean

I just used regular olive oil.  I didn't know otherwise. 

cubits

We just used regular old olive oil.  Sometimes it makes me hungry for pasta.