Northern Baby » natural diaper rash cream http://www.northernbaby.com Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:09:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Natural Creams to Treat Yeast Rashes http://www.northernbaby.com/2009/09/19/natural-diaper-rash-creams-an-update/ http://www.northernbaby.com/2009/09/19/natural-diaper-rash-creams-an-update/#comments Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:36:01 +0000 Nessie http://www.northernbaby.com/?p=466 Last week, I decided to try the Nature Clean detergent for washing my daughter’s diapers.  I usually use soapnuts, but I really wanted to find something that I could just throw in and forget about until the wash was done.  I chose Nature Clean because it had been recommended to me by some cloth diapering  moms and because it’s available in my supermarket store.  Well, things didn’t go too well.  My daughter got a diaper rash due to detergent residue which eventually turned into a yeast rash.  I wasn’t impressed, to say the least.

When my daughter was a couple months old, I discovered that most diaper rash creams do not work on yeast rashes.  An anti-fungal cream, which you can get without a prescription in any pharmacy, works well.  I prefer to use natural creams though.  So, this time I used the Substance Nappy Rash Ointment and an Antimicrobial Salve that I just got recently from a wonderful lady at Wildroot Botanicals.  By themselves, the rash ointments didn’t work very well, that’s why I added the antimicrobial salve.  Besides using the creams, I would also use bamboo fleece fitted diapers with or without a wool cover.  I’m happy to say that the rash was almost completely gone within 24 hours!

Wildroot Botanicals Antimicrobial Salve

How have you dealt with diaper rashes?  Do you have any “secret” remedies that you’d like to share?

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