Articles for tag: Bag Balm, Lanolin

Karla News

Vermont’s Original Bag Balm

Bag Balm has been around since 1899, and in today’s world of often discontinued products, that’s really saying a lot. Its original use was to keep cow’s udders from becoming chapped during the cold Vermont winters, and for minor abrasions on farm animals. The farmers who applied Bag Balm to their cows noticed that their ...

Karla News

Drool Rash: Causes, Treatment and Prevention

Most parents deal with excessive drooling mainly when their baby is teething, but a select few will just have drippy, sloppy kids who drool pretty much all the time. My son is just one of those kids with overactive saliva glands. As a result those same select parents including myself also get the joy of ...

How to Prevent a Skin Rash Beneath the Breasts

Larger breasted women sometimes experience a rash beneath the breasts, especially during the warm months of summer, but many don’t know how to prevent this problem and suffer with continual redness, burning, pain, and itching. This type of skin rash is not something commonly discussed, but for some women it’s an ongoing issue and a ...

Karla News

Lansinoh Breast Feeding Product Review

Breast feeding is a natural decision but with so many products to choose from, it can get confusing to find just the right ones to use. Lansinoh products were developed twenty years ago by a nursing mother, for nursing mothers. This is a review of four of their products, sold at retail stores like Wal-mart ...

Allergic to Lanolin: A Personal Hell

At the age of 19 I developed a skin rash. At first it wasn’t bad, just a little itching on my arms and legs. I figured it was just dry skin and I would apply a little moisturizing lotion to the areas. As the weeks turned into months, the rash got worse, thus began three ...

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Personal Care Cocoa Butter Lotion VS. Surgeon’s Skin Secret

Growing older – – for women in particular – – involves a lot of unpleasant things. There are the aches and pains normally associated with aging. There is the thinning hair problem. Weight becomes an ever present issue. It almost seems as though your body is in rebellion against you. Beauty seems to become a ...

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Post Partum Recovery: What Happens that You Don’t Expect

I admit, when I was expecting my first child I spent most of my time reading up on labor, delivery and caring for a newborn. I spent very little, if any, time considering what it would be like for my body to recover from the childbirth experience. Here are a few things you can expect ...

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The Many Uses of A+D Ointment

Ointment A+D ointment has been a necessity with every baby we have had, and we have five children. I, like a lot of other moms out there, have had to deal with a lot of diaper rashes in my time. I originally used Balmex for occasional diaper rashes until one bad rash that Balmex didn’t ...