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Praise! Zen Baby on Etsy

December 14, 2014 By Melanie

Disclaimer: I was provided a full size product to facilitate my review. All opinions, thoughts and ideas are my own. 

A few months ago I met another Mama of a Deaf toddler who is also kind of crunchy in a great way. She has a fantastic store on Etsy called Zen Baby that sells all sorts of concoctions, teething jewelry and other health and beauty products. Since we already had an amber teething necklace, I had been looking for another product to feature on Sunshine Praises. I probably should have tried her sore muscle salve after the Diva Half Marathon (I will have to do it after my next long training run) but I didn’t even think of getting something for myself.

However, when I couldn’t get a grip on Ez’s most recent outbreak of eczema, I knew exactly who to call. Erica made up a concoction of all natural products specifically for me to try on Ez’s horrible dry and damaged skin. When I saw her at drop off the next day, she handed me a small mason jar full of white cream. She told me that it didn’t smell really good but honestly I thought it was very pleasant.

Her homemade eczema cream is almost like a solid powder but when you rub it on your warm skin it melts into a really smooth fine oil. Before putting it on the baby, I used it on my own dry hands. It definitely helped to reduce the overall dryness of my hands. There was a bit of an initial oily feeling but it quickly absorbed into my skin.

Here is a picture of Day 1:

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The next big test was the little Mister. I want to start off by saying a) he can not use ANY product that contains petroleum and b) he is prone to staph infections. After 2 days of watching him literally spending night and day digging into his poor back and legs,  I was eager to put the Zen Baby cream on him. Here is day one. (Yes, that is a disposable diaper, like I said I couldn’t wait, I didn’t even change him from daycare.)

Up close photo of his back:

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So first impression: He didn’t scream. Normally when I try to put on medicines or lotions he screams. He acts like his skin is on fire. I have resorted to taking his steroid cream and mixing it with a lotion and frantically blowing while administering it.

Second impression: I didn’t need that much. Just a dab covers a large area and I was able to cover all of his inflamed areas with about a teaspoon full.

Third impression: It didn’t leave him greasy or leave any marks on his clothing and I didn’t notice any issues with my cloth diapers.

Originally I had planned to do a picture a day kind of thing but I didn’t see such drastic improvement that I felt it warranted. Then just a couple of days in we had some obvious staph spots and I added just a small amount of his his steroid cream to help clear it up.

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However, even with the staph, his overall dryness was significantly improving and he wasn’t scratching very much at all. I know it’s probably hard to tell but normally you can see little finger marks where he digs into his skin.

We continued to use the cream 2-3 times per day. He loved it and would bring it to me. I probably could have used the entire container in just a couple of days for as many times as he would bring it out of the bathroom.

We even made a little video: (please ignore my tiny disastrous bathroom and my son’s wobbly hands)

After about a week his eczema spots were completely healed up. He hasn’t scratched a bit in about 2 weeks and when I get him out of the bath, I do a quick check on his problem spots and use it cream on those. Fortunately there hasn’t been any more flare ups but when one comes, I am will be glad that I have the Zen Baby cream on hand.

Here is our 7 day picture:

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Erica has been running ZenBaby for over two years. She has a wide variety of products that will make you and your baby happy!

Visit ZenBaby on Facebook, Like the ZenBaby store on Etsy!

Filed Under: handmade, praise, products, Review, reviews, Uncategorized

Comments

  1. Amanda Grayson says

    December 15, 2014 at 10:26 pm

    Thanks so much Mel! Since I got this Liam’s skin looks so much better. He had a nasty spot on his back (not as bad as Ez’s but nasty) and it cleared up in about a week. I just smother it all over his back and he has hardly scratched at all in about a week or so. I love it and agree that it actually smells good ! 🙂 Thanks for the recommendation! !

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