NB AA skin

We use coconut oil from the grocery store, too. Even when it's hard, rubbing your fingers over it a few times melts enough to use. We use it in his hair, too.

luster's pink oil moisturizer- a nickel size gob and rub it through her hair and comb out. Also do not wash her hair any more than once a week- Black hair needs oil to be healthy and keep from breaking off. Repeated washing will make her hair dry and cause it to break off

Thanks for all the great suggestions. We've washed her hair about twice a week, but it seems to get really greasy and starts laying completely flat with the curl completely relaxed if we don't wash it after about 4-5 days. I'll watch closely for signs of drying out.

I would go by how the baby's hair looks and feels. Sounds like a twice per week wash is fine for your baby. My son's hair didn't really start being prone to drying until it developed a more mature texture - in our case when he was closer to a year old.

You can order shea butter from amazon. That's what we started doing. All of the kids have so many allergies and skin sensitivities and shea butter is pure and natural and causes no issues for us :)

I think shea butter sounds like a good idea, although I don't have any personal experience with it. I don't think I had heard of it yet when my kids were little. I really liked Eucerin cream, and used it on skin and hair. Also, I rarely used any kind of cleaning product on them, while they were little babies. My first biracial baby peeled a lot until I started using nothing but warm water and a soft wash cloth on him. He had a big birth mark on the back of his head that peeled so much that it looked like a big scab all the time. When I stopped using anything but water on it, it stopped peeling and the hair grew there and covered it. I can't remember if I was using Eucerin by then, or not. His second child is due in June, so it has been a while!I found doing some exfoliating important, because any dead cells really show up on darker skin. Just a soft terrycloth washcloth was enough, though. I also found it very helpful to rub the cream between both of my palms and then kind of blot it all over the skin, immediately after the bath. That helped seal the moisture in, without making the skin oily. I have seen moms get a bit carried away and their babies get some bumps from pores being clogged by too much oil.Congrats on the baby!

We love coconut oil too. For cooking and skin/hair. We also like Burt's Bees Apricot Oil. I tried really hard to like shea butter but I just don't like the smell.

Ok, after some trial and error we are really liking the coconut oil... especially how it absorbs into the skin so well. However, we are finding that after a while we're getting a build up of dead skin cells and oil ( mostly on the forehead). It's happening a day after the bath. She otherwise doesn't need a bath. I feel like I'm creating a vicious cycle, because if we bathe again, then we dry out her poor skin more. Should I just exfoliate that area and then reapply coconut oil or is that still doing the same cycle of drying that I don't want?

both of my babies are bi-racial. I use Nivea (blue pot)on them, yes, i even put in to their hair. They smell sooo good and their skin is soft and beautiful.

I think I would try just sponging her off with a warm washcloth on the days you don't bathe her. One thing you can try is putting a few drops of the coconut oil in the water you dip the washcloth in, so you are just getting a tiny bit of it all over her. It is interesting, all of the issues we CC parents find with our brown babies. About 60% of my high school and college friends were something other than CC. Yet, I had never had any occasion to learn about issues with brown-skinned infants. The Mongolian spots totally shocked me, with my first biracial baby, until I found out what they were. My youngest child, who is Haitian/Filipina, had very widespread and dark Mongolian spots that didn't fade until she was about five. We did a lot of boating in the summer and I would often see people looking at her back, obviously concerned about what they thought were bruises. I would just tell them what they were.

Tonight I think I finally got it dialed in just right. Coconut oil while the skin was still damp and on the in between days, just a light washcloth rub on the affected areas followed by coconut oil. We're getting there. I want all the folks in the neighborhood that I'm doing a great job... and she really has beautiful skin and I want to show it off!

We always use coconut oil only on wet skin (and hair) too. Today I let DS do his own hair and the oil was solid and he didn't melt it enough and it looked like he had lice. Bad! So I got out the hair dryer and melted his fake lice!

This may be a little late BUT I was prescribed Hydro-Latum for my little one's super dry skin!!!!!! It has worked wonders!

We just had a follow-up with the dermatologist about a week ago! My little one is biracial and has extremely dry skin! The dermatologist she sees says to bathe her daily in luke warm water! I was skipping baths as I thought it was drying her skin and I was told sitting in the water hydrates and moisturizing locks in the moisture after the tubby! We were told to use NO soap except only neutregena glycerin bar if needed, pat her dry (no rubbing and leave skin damp) and follow up with hydrolatum! Been doing this for about a week and her skins glows and not a dry spot on her!!!!!! Her Dr wrote a prescription for the hydrolatum and her insurance covered it.

My son is full AA (and now 7 years old) and since he was a baby I have used Cetaphil cream (in the tub). It's not cheap but he has never had skin problems and he puts on after shower at night and again in the morning while getting dressed.