Tips for your baby perfume

The baby skin is very delicate, so we must be careful about the cosmetics we use. With regard to colonies, should ensure that non-alcoholic and never will put it directly on the skin or hair.

In the known book writer and German writer Patrick Süskind 'Perfume: The story of a murderer', the mother described the scent of infants: "The feet, for example, smell like a smooth and warm (...) And the body stone It smells like a biscuit dipped in milk. And the head at the top, at the crown, where the hair forms a swirl (...) It is like the smell of candy, you can not imagine, Father, how sweet and wonderful it is! Once you've smelled them here, they are like, whether they are themselves and others. "

The smell is unconsciously linked to our emotions and newborns recognize the scent of her mother and detect breast milk. This sense, which sometimes pays little attention will help to shape our perception of reality. So we're both smell good and that our children do the same.

However, we must be vigilant in the use of cosmetic products in infants, because the skin is an organ of the body to which we should pay attention to avoid allergic reactions or dryness.

Now that the cosmetics industry has just suffered a major setback, as the shadow of a ban hanging over some of the scents used in the most famous perfume market, remember that the baby skin is very sensitive and we must maintain own natural pH and defenses.

Tips for your baby perfume

1. Choose a natural, hypoallergenic fragrance. Best those who have a short list of ingredients.

2. Choose those that do not contain alcohol, they may irritate the skin and are dangerous if you accidentally fall into the eyes of children.

3. Do not put colony on the skin or hair of the baby. If you fancy, just perfume your clothes.

4. Less is more: the fewer fixtures products baby skin, the better. Use a soft, cream soap for the diaper area if irritation develops and sunscreen from six months and it is better not to expose before the sun small.

5. At home is better to use mild soap and water instead of wipes. Get Them for when you're away from home.

Read labels

There are 26 flavors, natural and synthetic origin, considered by the Scientific Committee of the European Community as allergens. For that reason, it is mandatory to appear on the labeling within the ingredients specifically and in decreasing order. The rest of the ingredients not contained in the list may appear to collectively as 'parfum' or 'Fragrance'.

• Amyl Cinnamal
• Benzyl alcohol
• Cinnamyl alcohol
• Citral
• Eugenol
• Hydroxycitronellal
• Isoeugenol
• Alcohol Amylcin namyl
• Benzyl salicylate
• Cinnamal
• Coumarin
• Geraniol
• Hydroxymethyl-pentilciclohex-I enocarbaldehído
• 4-methoxybenzyl alcohol
• Benzyl cinnamate
• Farnesol
• 2- (4-tert-butylbenzyl) propionaldehyde
• Linalool
• Benzyl benzoate
• Citronelol
• a-hexylcinnamaldehyde
• d-limonene
• Methyl carbonate heptyne
• 3-methyl-4- (2,6,6-trimethyl-2-cyclohexen-1-yl) -3-buten-2-one
• Oakmoss extract
• Treemoss, extract