Taking care of a newborn baby’s delicate skin, particularly when changing the nappy, is crucial from the earliest days of life to prevent rashes and redness.
Removing nappies, cleansing the baby’s bottom and moisturising the area is a familiar task to parents, grandparents, babysitters and carers. This why forming good habits is the key to your baby’s intimate hygiene, even in case of redness and irritation.
Given its frequency, nappy changing must not be underestimated also considering how delicate the concerned areas are.
Along with feeding, it is one of the most frequent activities in the first months of a baby’s life. Babies tend to soil their nappies very often, so checking very frequently whether the nappy is dry or not is important.
Skin-protecting allies for nappy changes.
Prevention is the skin’s best defence. There are two essential allies for skin health at nappy changing time, and these are a specific cleanser for baby’s intimate hygiene and a moisturising, emollient, nourishing cream with a regenerating effect. Let’s take a closer look at the criteria for choosing the most suitable products for your baby’s skin from the very first days of life.
Choose a specific intimate cleanser to cleanse a newborn baby’s bottom. Using different products to meet the specific needs of the skin in all parts of your baby’s body is important for hygiene. The hydrolipidic film of a newborn baby’s skin has not completely formed. It is permeable and has a pH that is not yet capable of protecting it from external elements. This is why cleansing the skin as gently as possible is essential (Baby intimate hygiene wash, 150 ml, neutral pH).
You may not always have a washbasin at hand. The changing table could be a different room with no access to water or you go be away from home, for instance. In these cases, you can use either wet wipes (Baby Wipes 20 pcs) or better still cleansing milk (Baby Cosmos Natural Cleansing Milk) perfect for cleansing the face and body and for changing nappies without rinsing. It is recommended to apply Baby Cleansing Milk to a cotton ball and wipe the concerned area, repeating the action several times until the cleansing is complete.
The choice of a nappy change cream (Cosmos Natural Baby Change Cream 100 ml) is equally important to bolster the skin barrier, prevent the skin from drying out and encourage tissue regeneration in case of irritation, redness or nappy rashes (Sos Baby Cream 30 ml). Choose a nappy change cream that contains active ingredients with anti-inflammatory, soothing, moisturising and healing properties to prevent and soothe the redness typical of a baby’s bottom.
How to deal with nappy rashes.
A baby’s skin is thinner and more fragile than that of grown-ups, and it is more prone to irritation, redness and flaking. The baby’s bottom is no different.
In the case of nappy rash, it is important to use a dedicated cream capable of contrasting the action of external irritants, helping to soothe, regenerate and nourish even the deepest layers of the dermis (Sos Baby Cream 30 ml).
