Dry Skin / Eczema Cream (safe for wee ones)

{This post is edited from an original post on my Chronicles of Seedling website from April 20, 2016.}

Baby Boy has the driest skin on the planet (next to mine). He also has eczema from time to time, and sometimes it is quite awful. While the cortisone cream the Doc gave him works… who wants to use that? Not me. I had some California Baby cream, which was great, but I also have a ton of my own ingredients, so I chose to re-use the cream jar and start mixing my own stuff.

The recipe is below:

• 1/4 cup of almost equal coconut and castor oils
• 1 tsp calendula extract

Heat on stove, stir until mixed.

Set aside, let cool. Apply when hardened.

We use this all of the time now, and I need to make some more. With the first batch, I used much more coconut oil than castor; I will continue to play with the ingredients and amounts listed here.

For some reason, it smells like cinnamon to me. YUM. I imagine you can add calming essential oils to the mixture, like lavender, to your own liking (and safety!).

So far, this seems to work better than the other stuff we’ve tried. Is it the calendula, or the castor oil?? Coconut hasn’t really done too much for my son on its own… We apply it directly to his skin, as well as using thicker coconut milk as ice cubes for his baths.

Perhaps it’s the mixture itself! I remember reading somewhere that herbal remedies work better in a group.

Tell us what you use for dry skin and eczema!