Comments on: Waitrose Baby Bottom Butter Update

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:10:14 +0000

@Maggie – thanks for the offer. I have managed to get hold of a tub myself now thanks, but I appreciate your generosity nonetheless.

By: Maggie Shuter

Maggie Shuter — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:06:06 +0000

Have read with interest your articles on the Baby Bottom Butter. I have a tub you can have if you send me your address.
I have very dry, sensitive skin – possibly a form of eczema. Having used the butter I feel it is acting as a barrier cream which ties in with your first article. Will be very interested to read your comments once you have had the chance to analysis the contents.
Maggie Shuter

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:58:19 +0000

Thanks for this Cat. I have a blog post on this subject coming out on the 7th of March.

By: laura

laura — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:28:36 +0000

Hi jennifer in reference to parabens you mentioned on the ingredients list among others I have a tub next to me and those ingredients come under the ‘free from’ bit not ‘ingredients’

By: cat

cat — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:34:29 +0000

Hi,

what products would you recommend for the face, im 28 and sick of paying a huge amount of money for products that just dont work.
i have normal to dry skin, with no real problems, just want to start giving it what it needs as opposed to what i am being told by the media and advertisers it needs.

many thanks.

By: Colin

Colin — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 22:21:35 +0000

Thanks for your comment Jennifer. The last time I looked at the Waitrose Baby Bottom Butter it didn’t contain parabens. I have a jar I bought a couple of years ago somewhere so I’ll double check. If they have used them, they have been very cautious indeed because the formulation doesn’t contain any water and so would not support microbial growth.

With regard to parabens, I am not sure that the use of them has fallen all that much if at all. And several formulators have said that they are going to start using them again now that the EU have published a very thorough review. Google SCCS opinion on parabens and you can read it yourself. I don’t think the case against the parabens is a very strong one at the moment, though I don’t blame people for avoiding them given the question mark over them. (I have written quite a few posts about parabens if you want more detail though I need to update them with the latest info.)

By: Jennifer Yuile

Jennifer Yuile — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:09:18 +0000

Rushed off to buy this to rescue my face – first look showed me Parabens, Preservatives, and Petro-chemicals- (not sure if that correct wording, but similar) -didn’t bother to read a further!
In view of the fact that most good face creams for women have stopped using parabens at the very least, I was amazed that people have been using the baby butter on their babies delicate skin – especially in the amounts that would be required over the period of time they are in nappies.

By: Iona

Iona — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:59:07 +0000

Hi Colin, I’ve just discovered your website and have linked to you in today’s post: http://iheartnaturalbeauty.blogspot.com/2011/01/smooth-as-babys-bottom.html

Thanks for interesting info. Iona

By: helen Spearing

helen Spearing — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:31:39 +0000

Hi There
This product has interested me.I have been putting togeter a cocoa/shea/sweet almond body cream,it seems so simple,however I will have to have a Health and Safty check and a stabilty test done on the product.With the research I have done ( and spoken to manufacturing) it appears they place a alcohol and preservative and a few other bits and bobs ( can be synthetic) and the true name of – say cocoa body cream is probably only approx 15% of the whole
Vailla is a favourite frangance ( again prob synthetic)
By all accounts Vanilla is a mans favourite smell! reminds him of his mother’s fooding cakes!!! like that happens alot these days
Do go to my site
Regards Helen Spearing

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