J&J Baby Products and Skin Tone

jojupi i am not sure if any of the J n J products are not suiting her... but i guess babies when born are quite fair, and may tend to get darker later, thats just her skin melanin ....

however i refrain from using too many products on my baby, for massage i mix almond and olive oil in equal proportion....no soap on her face whatsoever. and mothercare natural softie bodywash just a couple of drops for the entire body.

also i do not use any talc

 

My son developed light ezema so my doctor asked us to stop using J&J products as the nice smell you get from J&J - it is allergic to most babies (Bummer). So my husband started using the left over J&J lotion and noticed that he is getting dark. Then some one told him that the J&J lotions makes skin darker- I didn't believe him but could be right from your story.

 

hey jupi.. will tell you my experience.

we too started massaging my DD with J&J baby oil. though her color did not change, we did notice that she started getting a LOT of prickly heat kind of boils. especially on her face . so we stopped that.

now we massage her with normal parachute coconut oil. there are no boils anymore . but i did notice that her face skin tends to get ruff randomly. using emoderm cream prescribed by her doc and they seem to disappear.

i have a doubt about using olive oil... does baby turn darker with that? my mil says that. it seems her son/my BIL was born real fair. she massaged him with olive oil and now he is like a coal . since she had first hand experience, I am scared to experiment

 

Hi,

i also have that experience...yes my kid 4 months old he had allergic with j&j products so my ped told to stop that...now he is ok..

 

Jojupi,
Even i noticed the skin darkening in my son after using J&J lotion. until he was 3 yrs i used only coconut oil , moong dhal powder for bathing him. now recently i started using the J&J lotion and see quite a difference. now i stopped it.
if you want to try someting better to use aveeno products they are better.

Baby oil is nothing but mineral oil, instead of that it is better to use coconut oil or any other natural oils. you can get coconut oil/almond oil etc in wholefoods store or even in indian stores, or anyother supermarkets here.
for my little one she got prickly heat kind of bumps all over her body and doc suggested to use aveeno moisturizing lotion and it got cleared within a week. for cradle cap i just used coconut oil and not that also has gone.

 

Olive Oil is known to darken the skin tone. Why not try almond or coconut oil.

 

MY DS developed mild rashes, so my pead asked me to refrain from the usage of J&J products..
Also oilve oil darkens skin complexion...