I thank God for the gift of plants so often lately I can actually envision living in a constant state of gratitude. Today I’m having another grateful moment. Blogging is not on my to-do list today, but I came across something that I feel so passionately about I must stop what I’m doing and share it right now. I was cleaning out my cabinets again and was simply going to share this on my personal Facebook page for my friends to see:I’ll be changing things inside my home for a long time, because baby steps makes the most sense to me. Very fitting that baby powder is in today’s ‘toss’ pile! 🙂 I found a giant unopened bottle of this under my bathroom sink and it’s time to let it go. I remember in the last round of cleaning out junk from my family’s products, I wasn’t ready to toss a “brand new unopened bottle of perfectly good” baby powder, so I threw out two 1/2 used bottles and kept this one. Just in case. Yeeesh…
“Johnson & Johnson – a family company”
So that was my post today, which turned into this blog. 🙂 I encourage each of you to do the same. We DO have a say in the environment we create for our bodies, and for our future generations, too. Click if you’d like to see Erin’s actual Facebook post . As of the time of writing this blog it has nearly 57, 000 shares! We can do better as we learn how to, and let’s educate others along the way. This is too, too easy NOT to to DIY a better version using natural, sustainable ingredients and the ‘lifeblood’ of plants instead of chemical garbage!
How about a simple, less expensive alternative without those extra ingredients? 🙂 I don’t see talc in this bottle, but fragrance is such a HUGE offender! Click here if you want to know more about fragrance. Even so, all our corn… that we’d make corn starch from… is Frankencorn anyway. Our bodies are not stupid, and they don’t want GMOs. I think we ought to listen! This is too easy to be lazy on…
SIMPLE ORGANIC DIY BABY POWDER
HERE is a tried and true recipe my dear friend Heather Bartram has experimented with and so graciously shared her results:
Heather says: “I used Cedarwood, Lavender, and of course Purification for well, Purification, lol!  The smell is light – you might want to mess with that a bit to make it a bit more tantalizing, but it works for me! It will make your skin gray with the bentonite clay, but who cares about that when you put clothes over yourself and walk out the door. It does work GREAT! Zero chafing under ‘the girls’.” (Heather uses this under her bra… 😉 What a great idea!!)
We’ve included an affiliate link to the fleur de lis canister – even though it’s ceramic… and not really practical for a baby’s room. LOL. YOU KNOW IT’S CUTE!!!
Arrowroot powder is usually easy to find. If you need help you can get the brand we like on Amazon here: Bob’s Red Mill Arrowroot powder  Use a 1/2 cup of that and/or  Bentonite clay
Add essential oils. DONE! (But make sure it’s quality!!) Lavender is a great oil choice for babies. I’ve heard of folks using a few drops of Gentle Baby along with Lavender for their own baby powder scent, also. 🙂 (PS–Me likey in the diffuser for nigh-nigh) (and an updated “Gasp!” Cuz I think that’s what YL used in their baby line, Seedlings!)
If you’d like to order or learn more about Young Living Essential Oils, including WHY the quality unmatched and so important, start here. There is great information about our true lavender as well as some information on why fragrance is dangerous in our blog called organic honey lavender sugar scrub. Check that out to find out why lavender growers of France came to Young Living for help.
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