Preterm infants often have a set of needs distinct from full-term babies. Born before the 37th week of pregnancy, these tiny warriors might have had a challenging start in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The ideal gift for a premature baby considers the delicate nature of their skin, their slower developmental pace, and the emotional journey their parents undergo.
Prioritize gifts that emphasize the baby's health and comfort. From birth, touch plays a pivotal role in communication and comfort, and this is amplified for premature babies. The simple act of touch signals safety and belonging. It's more than a physical act; it's a conduit for bonding, development, and emotional well-being. Beyond the physical benefits, touch enhances mental and emotional health, promoting a sense of safety, reducing anxiety, and bolstering the immune system.
GIFTS FOR IN THE NICU
The NICU journey is filled with both challenges and milestones. During this delicate time, the best gifts are those that enhance the baby's comfort and well-being within the hospital setting. Items that can beused immediately are often the most valued.
Before bringing gifts to the NICU, always check with the hospital's policy and consult the parents. Space can be limited, and some items might not bepermitted for health reasons.
BATH TIME SKINCARE
Skincare products allow parents to actively participate in their baby's care and bonding process. Opt for products that are organic, hypoallergenic, free of synthetic fragrances, and free of harmful chemicals. BEB Organic's skincare range is hospital-approved and specifically designed for preemie babies.
MILESTONE CARDS
It's a gift that truly makes those initial, crucial days a touch brighter. Every tiny milestone reached in theNICU is a huge triumph, and should be celebrated. Parents can position these milestone cards next to their baby, or attach it to their isolette for a quick picture that can be added to their baby journal.
ORGANIC BLANKIES
Soft against their sensitive skin, blankets help in reducing overstimulation from hospital lights and sounds, and assist in maintaining the baby's body temperature. Consider scent-retaining blankets that can comfort the baby by carrying the parents' scent.
GIFTS FOR HOSPITAL-TO-HOME
Once the NICU chapter closes and the baby is ready to go home, the journey of growth continues. Now, the focus shifts to gifts that aid in establishing routines and nurturing the baby in their new environment.
WELCOME HOME SET
A thoughtful gift set to celebrate when a preemie baby is finally ready to go home. Check out BEB Organic’s Welcome Home Gift which includes their preemie safe skincare range for home care, a soft blanket, preemie onsies, and a gua sha for at-home baby massage, all to help aid in the baby's growth journey outside the NICU.
PREEMIE CLOTHES
Most NICUs have restrictions on outside clothing for medical and sterility reasons. Instead, consider gifting preemie clothes for when the baby is ready to head home.Specifically sized for preemies, these clothes are soft, breathable, and perfect for a baby adjusting to life outside the NICU.
DIAPER SET
The gift of essential items can be a true lifesaver. Because sometimes, the most practical gifts make the biggest difference. Pair the diapers with BEB Organic’s Diaper Balm.Specially made for preemie skin, this balm addresses the common challenges of diaper rashes, while also helping heal bumps and damaged skin from bandage adhesive.
GIFTS FOR PREEMIE PARENTS
Being a preemie parent is both a journey of immense love and, at times, incredible challenge. Gifts that acknowledge this journey, offering comfort and understanding, are always cherished. While intentions are always appreciated, it's best to consult the parents first. They might be overwhelmed immediately after birth, so sometimes waiting can be more considerate.
GUA SHA SET
Research shows that gua sha can help with key postnatal challenges. By gently stimulating microcirculation right beneath the skin it can help with stretch marks, c-sections scars, engorged breasts, muscle aches, sleep concerns, and more. BEB Organic’s Soothing & Nurturing Gua Sha Set pairs arose quartz gua sha with a how-to guide, and a massage oil that is loaded with nurturing and calming properties for the perfect self-care treat.
MEAL DELIVERIES
Gifting organic, meal delivery programs, or home-cooked meals can be a lifeline for parents who spend long hours at the NICU. The first few weeks at home can be exhausting. Providing them with nutritious meals helps reduce one more stressor from their day.
GUIDED JOURNALS
Documenting the NICU journey can be therapeutic. A beautiful journal to document their baby's progress helps parents cope with the setbacks and celebrate the milestones along the way.
WHY BEB ORGANIC
When considering preemie baby gift ideas, skincare products belong high on the list. The process of applying gentle skincare, like the BEB Organic range, isn't just about nurturing the skin; it's an intimate ritual of bonding. This is where the science of BEB Organic comes in. The skin of premature babies is thinner and more permeable than that of full-term babies, making it susceptible to irritations. Rooted in 20 years of research, we crafted all of our skincare products specifically for the skin of preemies. Given the vital role skin plays in overall immune function, using BEB’s organic skincare products not only caters to the baby's immediate skin needs but also play a role in enhancing their overall health and immunity. Making them one of the best gifts for a preemie baby
CRAFTED FOR PREEMIE SKIN
Bubbly Wash | An essential for every preemie's gentle bath time routine. Formulated with organic ingredients, this wash ensures that while the baby's delicate skin is cleaned, it's also nurtured and moisturized.
Nurturing Oil | This antioxidant-rich blend is perfect for tender touch or a soothing massage.For preemie parents, who often cherish every tactile moment with their baby, this oil enhances the sensory bonding experience.
Diaper Balm | Diaper rashes can be more frequent with preemie babies. This balm addresses the challenges of diaper rashes for tender skin, while also helping with bumps and damaged skin from bandage adhesive and IV skin punctures.
Silky Cream | Beyond moisturizing, this cream nourishes the baby’s skin, ensuring it receives all the essential nutrients for optimal health, especially as they adapt to their new surroundings at home.
Soothing Serum | Formulated to support the skin's microbiome, this serum is invaluable for special care situations, like umbilical cord care, irritated skin, and baby acne.Offering targeted relief, it's a comforting ally in a preemie's skincare regimen.
Choosing the perfect gift for preemie babies and their parents is not just about picking a pretty present, but selecting something that genuinely benefits the little one's growth and well-being. BEB Organic products stand out as a stellar choice in this regard. Already trusted and used in hospitals for these fragile newborns, they are a testament to safety and care that goes beyond the norm. These products not only promote healthy development but also ensure that the baby's delicate skin gets the gentlest care it deserves. Moreover, BEB Organic isn't just about the baby; it’s about the joy and relief it brings to the parents, knowing they're using products that medical professionals trust. When you gift BEB Organic, you're not just offering a product; you're bestowing love, thoughtfulness, and the highest standard of care.
If you have a favorite preemie gift, let us know @beborganic. Every suggestion helps in making the preemie journey a little brighter.
]]>This year's global theme is “Small actions, BIG IMPACT: immediate skin-to-skin care for every baby everywhere", showcasing the importance of mindful touch in the development of preemies. As the #1 provider of organic skincare products for preemies and newborns in NICUs, we understand and know the pivotal role mindful touch plays in communication and comfort. Touch enhances mental and emotional health, promoting a sense of safety, reducing anxiety, and bolstering the immune system. For a preemie, this blend of touch and care can significantly speed up their developmental and healing processes.
Skincare is a valuable pathway to facilitate gentle skin-to-skin contact, and brings added benefits when products formulated for preemies are used. Built on this core foundation, BEB Organic was developed to support the growth and health of fragile preemie skin. We teach parents how to combine our nourishing products with mindful skin-to-skin application rituals that help stimulate growth, support emotional well-being, and further strengthen the bond between parent and baby.
Each year worldwide nearly 30 million babies are born prematurely, and of these 1.2 million are born in the Americas region, a statistic that resonates deeply with the team at BEB Organic. However, the impact extends far beyond the newborns, touching the lives of millions of family members who are connected to these tiny fighters. That is why BEB Organic donates a portion of every purchase to support NICU families, helping to build a foundation of health and care from the very beginning.
“Considering the immediate family alone – parents, siblings, and grandparents – the ripple effect of a premature birth can be felt by at least 10 people per baby. This means that annually, up to 3.8 million family members are directly impacted by premature births in the United States,” said Kim Walls, Founder of BEB Organic.
Premature babies often require extended stays in NICUs, placing emotional and financial strain on their families. The road to bringing their baby home can be long and fraught with challenges, but BEB Organic believes that showing support can make a significant difference for families.
We believe all babies and families deserve the best possible start, which is why BEB Organic launched its NICU Family support program, Tiny Steps. We know that developmentally healthy, organic skincare can be out of reach for many preemie families. To help bridge the gap, we have created a discount program giving any NICU family that wants to use BEB Organic for their baby’s first year out of the hospital 25% off all orders for an entire year.
By using or continuing to use BEB Organic products, especially the Bubbly Wash, after baby’s hospital stay, we can help ensure that our preemies are not exposed to endocrine and nervous system disruptors, and drying, damaging surfactants as they continue catching up at home.
Learn more about how to do preemie & baby massage for skin-to-skin on our blog: Mastering Preemie Baby Massage.
BEB Organic's story is deeply interwoven with the tales of preemies. For over 20 years, we've dedicated ourselves to understanding the intricacies of preemie skin, collaborating with neonatologists, pediatricians, nurses, and most crucially, parents who've walked your path.
Our commitment to natural, organic, and regenerative farming practices ensures that the ingredients touching your baby's skin are as pure as your love. This method revitalizes the soil, enhancing its richness, and by extension, the nourishment your baby receives.
For a preemie, every touch is profound. Our products are designed to transform daily routines into intimate bonding rituals. The act of bathing, moisturizing, or simply caressing their delicate skin becomes a moment of connection.
Every BEB Organic formula is crafted bearing preemies in mind. We prioritize their unique needs, ensuring that our products provide gentle care, fortifying their skin and enhancing its natural protective barrier.
From the first time your baby grasps your finger to their initial gaze into your eyes, every moment is precious. We're here to celebrate these milestones with you, ensuring that each day, your baby feels enveloped in the purest care.
Joining the BEB Organic community means stepping into a space filled with shared stories, experiences, and wisdom. Here, you'll find warmth, guidance, and the reassurance that you're never alone in this journey. Join us on socials @beborganic
After the completion of a 2 month study with 72 participants using BEB Organic products for pregnancy & baby skincare, we asked the study participants to share their thoughts openly.
Out of 292 written statements the word “LOVE” was used spontaneously 118 times. "AMAZING", "UNBELIEVABLE", "I WAS SO SURPRISED", and "DELIGHTED" were also used with very high frequency. 99% of study participants agreed that they would recommend BEB Organic to their friends.
BEB Organic has Proven Safe and Effective In Use with Millions of Babies Across North America
BEB Organic products have been used safely on millions of babies in the clinical setting. The products are used exclusively for skincare in over 10% of North American hospitals on their most sensitive patients, babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs).
The quality assurance teams of those institutions, including doctors and nurses, perform rigorous independent analysis of product performance and effectiveness and, based on their results, have selected BEB Organic as the chosen skincare partner for their NICUs.
Specifically, independent-third party testing includes Preservative Effectiveness (PET), Human Repeat Insult Patch Testing (HRIPT), Transepidermal Water Loss (TEWL), and Ocular Safety Testing (OT) done by dermatologists and ophthalmologists to ensure product safety and hypoallergenicity.
Additionally, the Environmental Working Group has evaluated each formula’s ingredient profile to ensure BEB Organic products are safe and effective for standards including:
Enhanced skin absorption, endocrine disruption, ecotoxicology, contamination concerns, organ system toxicity, reproductive toxicity, carcinogenicity, multiple additive exposure potential, and immunotoxicity.
Ultimately, BEB Organic is chosen by hospitals because of the brand’s uncompromising safety standards, proven effectiveness, and innovative approach to health. BEB Organic focuses on healing through touch, calling upon product textures, scents, and ingredient profiles to deliver unparalleled results.
We've also specifically tested our products to support the performance claims we make.
Our studies were conducted by a third-party facility, Good Face Project, and included 72 participants between the ages of 21 and 39 years. Participants were selected by the testing facility based on the criteria that they were in their 2nd or 3rd trimester of pregnancy.
After approximately 8 weeks of use, participants were asked to review product performance on a 5 point scale.
At the end of the study, participants were asked to comment on their experience with the products.
Out of 292 written statements about BEB Organic products in this study, the word “LOVE” was used spontaneously 118 times. "AMAZING", "UNBELIEVABLE", "I WAS SO SURPRISED", and "DELIGHTED" were also used with very high frequency.
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BEB Organic was first created to serve premature and fragile babies in hospitals. This is the community where our work was first born more than 20 years ago. Doctors and nurses wanted an authentically natural brand that could meet the rigorous medical standards of neonatal intensive care units.
Together with those medical professionals, we developed the BEB Organic products. Many of the largest and most prestigious hospital systems in the US buy exclusively BEB Organic products for the babies in their care, because the doctors and nurses from their systems helped develop the products.
We continue to work with doctors, nurses, doulas, midwives, and a full spectrum of specialists to ensure the quality and usefulness of our products and content.
To name just a few of the remarkable people who helped bring BEB Organic to life and keep our information based in evidence, our Advisors include:
Dr. Alison Mitzner: board-certified pediatrician, author, family wellness and fitness expert, Sr. Director at a major pharmaceutical company, and passionate supporter of moms feeling calm, confident, and healthy.
Dr. Anna Zimmermann: founder of Mighty Littles, Dr. Zimmerman is a neonatologist specializing in the treatment of premature and sick newborn infants. She has been practicing for over 10 years as an advocate for both babies and their families. She has been a featured speaker for coorporations and non-profits, and has been featured on local news programs advocating for infant health.
Dr. Media Esser PhD, NNP-BC, APNP, CWN: As a specialist in Neonatology, Media is a nurse scientist and neonatal nurse practitioner in practice in a high level NICU. Her research focus is on diaper dermatitis among the NICU population. She's also the Neonatal NP Program Director at Alverno College.
Kara Ann Waitzman OTR/L, NTMTC: In practice for 28 years, she served on the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetrics, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) Continuum of Care Advisory Board and currently serves on the March of Dimes Program Services board and the National Association of Neonatal Therapists Professional Collaborative. She is founder of the Neonatal Touch & Massage Certification, and Co-founder of Infant-Driven Feeding.
In partnership with DandleLion Medical, we offer free training to health professionals as well as in-hospital support and access to specialized skincare.
Working with over 300 hospitals in the US and Canada, we’ve already served over a million babies, and are determined to continue to spread the healing power of touch to so many more.
We support the medical community and patients in every way we can, which includes helping through our charity initiatives. BEB Organic provides free resources directly to families—educational eBooks, apps, and podcasts. We also make meaningful product and cash donations to support the efforts of our nonprofit partners, 2020 Mom and Hand-to-Hold.
2020 Mom works in California to drive institutional change in support of maternal mental health. Their policies and protocols are inspiring similar changes nationwide. Hand-to-Hold works in Texas to help families with a baby in the NICU—or who have lost an infant—by providing resources and one-on-one mentoring from someone who’s been there.
Both 2020 Mom and Hand-to-Hold are beacons of light and hope, leading the way for systematic changes nationwide. We are honored to support them and proud to help our customers support them by being part of our community. Together with our customers, we help give families a better opportunity to thrive.
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From the shimmering lights and carefully chosen colors of BEB Organic packaging to the product textures that are specifically designed to layer and press into skin, BEB Organic products deliver a comprehensively uplifting experience.
AS YOU BEGIN...
Take a moment to gently rock the bottle back and forth in the light, and watch it sparkle. Glistening light is uplifting and proven to calm the mind, like the sunrise. Do this as part of your routine each time you use the products to set your intentions.
SEE
Notice the colors on the packaging. Each was chosen using color theory to enhance the performance of the product by engaging whole body healing through our sense of sight.
SMELL
Inhale deeply and slowly as you open your products, knowing that the pure, clean smell comes from our organic and natural ingredients. The scent is specifically calming and uplifting with allergy testing and no synthetic fragrances or hormone disrupters.
TOUCH
During application, press your products into the skin, slowly layering one over the next without much rubbing. The specific texture of each product compliments the others and works beautifully with the softest caress. Our skin health is optimized when we embrace it with gentle pressure.
TRUST
Remember that these products are safely used on millions of babies in hospitals under the care of experts, and that over 20 years of research and development went into creating them. Our Phtocura complex provides ample micro and macro nutrients from fresh, superfood ingredients to support healthy skin development and offset damage from modern day irritants like air pollution.
KNOW
Take comfort in the fact that glass packaging is better for the planet, and that any plastic we use is offset via partnership with RePurpose. We remove twice as much plastic from the environment as we use. Plus 2% of all revenue is donated to support mental health for parents and children.
Finally, know that with your own vital touch, you are setting your child up for a lifetime of great health in more ways than one. Developed for newborn safety, BEB Organic products provide enhanced skincare performance to amplify the benefits of your touch.
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A - Introduction
B - Beyond Skincare... The World of BEB Organic
C - Product Effectiveness & Safety
D - Science of the Senses
E - Product Deep Dive
F - Treatment Recommendations & Protocols
F1 - Spa Services:
Signature Gua Sha Pregnancy Treatment
F2 - How to Care for Pregnancy Skin with BEB Organic Products:
F3 - How to Care for Baby Skin with BEB Organic Products:
G - Bonus Content
G1 - Details & Studies About Our Favorite Clean & Organic Ingredients
G2 - More to Learn
When we say “clean” we aren’t just talking about our products or the environment. We aim to participate in cleaning up the world in more ways than one. That’s why we make sure our sustainability initiatives have double impact. With every purchase of a BEB Organic product, we are joining forces to contribute to the creation of a clean era.
Alongside our use of traditionally clean practices for the beauty industry, like using organic ingredients, glass packaging, and forest safety certified papers, we also contribute 2% of all proceeds to help offset social injustices, especially those related to packaging. Packaging puts more plastic in the world than any other business sector.
Through our partnership with rePurpose Global, we work with Taka Taka in Nairobi, Kenya to remove twice the amount of plastic used in our operations, and support ethical wages for waste workers in a community that is disproportionally harmed by both social and climate injustice.
With Taka Taka, we safely and ethically collect 270 pounds of low-value plastic waste every year. Together we are able to recycle and compost over 95% of what is collected, preventing waste from filling oceans and landfills, and stopping the emission of harmful chemicals and greenhouse gases from polluting our shared world.
Also in an effort to eliminate harmful waste, BEB Organic products are packaged in glass bottles. Our chipboard and paper for secondary packaging and marketing collateral is FSC certified. We use minimal packaging when we ship you your products, relying heavily on sustainable honeycomb paper padding instead of plastic bubble wrap.
Because our ingredients are certified organic and non-GMO, we are not contributing to the use of pesticides and harmful toxins polluting our soil. Our formulas are EWG Verified, Good Face Project Approved and PETA certified Cruelty Free & Vegan.
Together we are sowing the seeds of change.
Sustainability Highlights:
– Glass Bottle Containers for primary packaging
– Partnership with rePurpose Global, removing twice as much plastic from nature than we use in our pumps and sample tubes
– FSC Certified Paper for packaging boxes and brochures
– Minimal Shipping Packaging: verified green honeycomb wrapping paper instead of bubble wrap
– EWG Verified Ingredients
– Good Face Project Verified Formulas
– Registered in the European Union (EU), Canada, Australia, and Japan under the strictest standards.
Free of Controversial Ingredients:
– No Synthetic Dyes or Fragrances
– No Mineral Oil or Petroleum
– No BPA
– No Phenoxyethanol
– No Soy, Palm Oil, Wheat, or Gluten
– No GMOs
Certifications/Awards:
– The Good Face Project Verified
– EWG Top Rated Ingredients
– Allergy Tested; Hypoallergenic
– Dermatologist Tested
– Ocular Tested; Eye Safe
– Made with Organic Ingredients
– Cruelty Free & Vegan, PETA Certified
This is the only source of accurate info about how and when you can get discount codes, coupon codes, loyalty offers, and promotional offers for BEB Organic Products.
You can save money when you buy BEB Organic products in lots of ways. We are a family run business, and as our customer, you are part of our family. That means we provide all kinds of options to save when you purchase (and especially when you repurchase) from the BEB Organic shop. Loyalty has big benefits.
10 WAYS TO SAVE:
1. Free Shipping & Free Returns - This is our standard. As long as you spend at least $25 with us, you'll get complimentary shipping within the US. No code needed.
2. Free Samples - You receive free samples in every order. We also offer an easy way to try all our products before you commit. With our Vital Touch Discovery Set you'll get a full trial/travel size of all BEB Organic products for just $18.00, along with a $15 gift card to apply to any full size product or set in a future purchase. If you haven’t already tried BEB Organic, get your Discovery Set now. No code needed.
3. Loyalty Benefits - We add special gift cards to orders for our loyal customers… because once you are part of our family, you get lasting benefits when we see you again. No code needed.
4. Delightful Surprises - Because we are family run and pay extra special attention to every one of our customers, we know when you come back to our shop again-and-again, and we are honored that you make that choice. From time-to-time we add a free product to your order, just because. Think of it like you stopped by our home for a visit and we couldn’t resist giving you a little gift because that’s just what friends do. No code needed.
5. Seasonal Promotions - From time to time we create limited-time discounts around days that are special to us, like NICU Awareness Day and Valentine’s day. Our seasonal promotions run for such a short time that the coupon collection sites very rarely find out about them. The best way to get the scoop on these promotions is to join our mailing list. The best way to get the scoop on these promotions is to sign up for our mailing list. GET ON THE LIST.
6. First Time Customer Promotions - Your trust is hard to earn. We know and respect that. We make it easier for you to make your first purchase by offering a discount to first time customers. You will get $10 off of your first purchase when you sign up for our email list. If the first thing you buy is our Discovery Set to get to know all the products, then you will only pay $8 for that set once you apply your $10 discount. SIGN UP NOW
7. NICU Support - If your family has a current or recent NICU experience, reach out to us on social or email for a special discount code. We understand the emotional and financial burden of a NICU experience, and the importance of maintaining peace, calm, and continuity when and where you can. We are here to help. DM or email us.
8. Professional Program - Licensed (or equivalent) wellness, medical, and beauty industry professionals (e.g., esthetician, MUA, RN, MD, LMT, etc) receive a pro-program discount. We are so appreciative of being the go-to choice in our industry and cannot thank you enough for the way you educate and inspire! Please email your professional credentials to connect@beborganic.com and we'll send you your exclusive code to use on our site, anytime on any products.
We are thankful for your loyalty to BEB Organic, and especially for the opportunity to provide you with education and products that help amplify the benefits of your vital touch.
Please know that we are the ultimate and best source of information about when and how coupon codes, discount codes, and promotions happen for BEB Organic products. If you have any questions at all, just email, call or DM us on social.
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All the love,
The BEB Organic Team
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Problems caused by excessive washing
Solutions to prevent problems that come from excessive hand washing
BEB Organic uses the medicinal power of ancient plant remedies, combined with modern scientific methods, to treat even the most sensitive skin. Originally formulated for premature infants and still used by hospital NICUs and birth centers today, there is nothing more powerfully soothing than the tried-and-true skincare formulas of BEB Organic. We make our products with artisanal ingredients sourced from the highest potency plants around the world, then carefully blend those into luxuriously healthy skincare formulas. Voila! Skincare with a vital touch.
NEWBORN, NICU & PREGNANCY SAFE
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Kim Walls is one of the nation’s foremost experts in the science, business, and culture behind the beauty industry. Beauty has always been Kim’s passion as the daughter of Robert Heiman, the founder of Epicuren, a pioneering brand in natural beauty and self-care.
Over the past several decades, she has made a significant impact in the industry as a master product formulator, award-winning products innovator, clean beauty pioneer, and social change advocate.
After graduating from the University of California Santa Barbara with honors, Kim joined a wellness tech startup as their skincare guru. She also spent the early part of her career studying organic and biochemistry as well as ethnobotany, which led to her broad expertise as a clinical skincare educator, esthetician, nutritionist, and award-winning serial entrepreneur in the natural skincare space. In addition to cultivating her own brands, she is often tapped as a public speaker and as an industry trailblazer to advise other global personal care and beauty companies.
Kim’s deep interest in the connection between optimal health and clean beauty has been the driving force throughout her many endeavors to advance the world of wellness through building cause-driven brands. In 2003, Kim founded Babytime! by Episencial, a line of safe, effective, and eco-friendly skincare products for children. In 2014, she launched a collaborative online and in-hospital resource to provide birth planning guidance and evidence-based parenting information, which grew into the creation of a specialized line of natural skincare products designed to amplify the benefits of touch for babies, BEB Organic.
Her most recent endeavors include Furtuna Skin, a luxury performance-driven skincare brand for men and women, launched in spring of 2020, Bambini Furtuna, a line of topical wellness products for children, and Kelsen Products, an organic grooming line.
As the CEO and Co-founder of Furtuna Skin, Kim leads development, from concept and formulation through storytelling for this luxury Italian skincare brand. She continues to raise the bar for clean beauty efficacy by debuting powerful new ingredients and processing methods, like the Soundbath extraction method, to deliver groundbreaking, transformative results.
Kim cares deeply about social change and actively advocates for safe beauty, family health, and human rights. At the forefront of the clean beauty movement, she is dedicated to galvanizing brands to remove unsafe ingredients and create more eco-friendly standards. Kim is currently collaborating with The Good Face Project (GFP) to create breakthroughs in brand accountability and authenticity. Kim and GFP Founder, Iva Teixeira, spearheaded a new way to harness the data from The Good Face App (and the tech that powers it) in innovative ways to perform consumer product testing.
Kim also works with doctors, nurses, and lab chemists to research and develop breakthrough clean beauty products that lead the industry forward. She was the first to use probiotics in children’s skincare products back in 2003, and continues to play an integral role in debuting powerful new ingredients and processing methods in the skincare industry.
Kim has served as leader of the Retail Advisory Committee for the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and on other non-profit boards such as 2020Mom, founded an NGO, and has been named a “Wonder Woman of the Natural Products Industry” by New Hope Media. Ken Cook, founder and President of EWG noted “Kim Walls has been a force of nature in her advisory role to EWG and we give a lot of credit to her for the success we've had in our sun safety work.”
Kim’s philanthropic focus is on charities that offset environmental challenges that are linked to social injustices and the mental health crisis. She also mentors other women on how to grow their business through the Female Founders Collective, CEW, and Hey Mama in NYC.
]]>Let’s start with the fact that our skin first began to take shape about 6 million years ago. The environment our skin is designed to thrive in is not the environment we live in today.
As parents and caregivers, we have a desire to avoid harsh and harmful chemicals, but we don't want to sacrifice performance. And... we don't have to.
During pregnancy and as baby skin develops from thriving in an amniotic fluid filled womb to thriving in air, it faces many challenges. Over 80% of unscheduled pediatric visits are due to a scary skin problem. Over 30% of babies develop acne in the first months of life. Nearly all parents deal with diaper dermatitis at one time or another.
Skin problems are getting worse as our climate changes and our exposure to environmental pollutants increases. From microplastics in the air to particulates from wild fires, skin is facing a new era... and it isn't equipped to do the job without outside support. That's where BEB Organic comes in with clinically proven, award winning products.
Today we have indoor and outdoor air pollution, contact with toxins absorbed from anything from cleaning supplies in a restaurant to the seats in our cars, nutrient deficiencies, and chlorinated drinking and bathing water... to name a few. We can minimize our exposure, but we can’t avoid it entirely.
Babies are even more vulnerable than adults because the surface area of their skin is so large compared to their overall size. Our bodies carry a shockingly high toxic load, even when we’re leading an organic lifestyle. Perhaps surprisingly, more toxins from air pollutants are absorbed into our body through the skin than are absorbed through breathing the air. Skin is our first line of defense against unavoidable assailants in the air, and it needs our help.
By boosting the skin with extra antioxidants from Phytocura, hydration from skin conditioners like hyaluronic acid, microflora from probiotics, and added barrier support from minerals and superfood organic oils, BEB Organic is improving our overall health now while also protecting our future.
If you haven't already, try the complete assortment of BEB Organic products today in our Vital Touch Sample Set.
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Gua sha is an ancient and treasured Chinese medicine massage done with a smooth, carved stone and a bit of oil. Inspired by ancient methods, we've adapted the original, heritage-rich techniques to use with babies and pregnancy.
“The pressure you would use on your own face is the pressure you use on your infant.” Patti Wolfrom, RN, LAc.
Our iteration on Gua sha, specifically for babies, is soothing—use it to help increase circulation, calm anxiety, improve health, promote sleep, and boost the immune system. It can help alleviate coughs and colds, inflammation, and tension.
Our gentle and baby-friendly version of gua sha is a wonderful health-promoting technique that our littles can benefit from, even if they’re feeling sick. To learn even more, we encourage you to talk with a licensed acupuncturist about all the wonderful ways you can use massaging stones to enhance health and boding within your family.
As we begin, let’s address a tiny elephant in the room about the difference between baby gua sha massage and the classical Chinese Medicine practice of gua sha for adults: the “gua” in gua sha means “scraping,” but you will not scrape your baby. Unlike typical body massage, the goal isn’t to apply pressure and evoke redness, it’s about soothing and connecting.
Though you’re using a specially carved, smooth stone, the edges are softly curved, not a sharp edge that could press in too deeply or hurt the skin. The light pressure you give helps relax, not challenge, your baby.
Our BEB Organic heart-shaped rose quartz stone mimics the shape of pregnant belly & breasts. Its various curves allow you to use it around bones and joints. And, it’s cooling or warming—if your baby has a fever, it can help relieve the heat by using the cool stone on their forehead. If your baby needs soothing from stress, warm the stone between your hands before putting it on your baby.
After a bath when your baby is calm is the perfect time for gua sha, but like any soothing touch, it can help ease emotions whenever baby needs it.
Many children are experiencing increased anxiety, and even newborns can feel depressed and anxious. Babies can also carry muscle tension, stress, or trauma from their birth.
As a parent, you can help ease challenging emotional states by first doing these relaxing techniques with your baby when they’re little, then later showing your older child how to use soothing self-care like gua sha. With self-care as a normal part of your older child’s health regime, they have calming, healing tools for everything life throws their way.
Most kids love how gua sha feels and will gladly sit quietly while you gently pull the stone over their oiled skin.
Gua sha gives you another way to touch and bond with your baby, and our BEB Organic Soothing & Nurturing Gua Sha Set gives you everything you need.
At BEB Organic, our mission is to promote health, touch, and bonding because these are the foundation of a better world for all of us.
We hope to help you create a better world, too, through loving touch and connection with your family and community.
Most of all, we love the way babies love it. Perhaps you’ve heard of facial gua sha using only soft, smooth pressure that’s deliciously soothing, uplifting, and toning. That comforting pressure is what you give your baby, too.
Babies who seem to not have a care in the world beyond food, sleep, and snuggles can carry tension, trauma, or stress from their prenatal growth or from birth6. Mothers who experienced significant stressful life events during pregnancy can have low-birthweight babies who are more vulnerable to issues1 in both childhood and adulthood.
But relieving a baby’s stress and tension through massage helps them grow better and stronger8—it improves weight gain, aids digestion, improves circulation, and increases immune strength.
Every loving touch tells your baby they’re safe, included, and supported, helping them learn to cope better with life.
The beauty of gua sha massage for babies is that it can provide the same physical and psychological9 benefits as it does for adults—stress reduction, increased sleep, lower blood pressure, and slower breathing10.
Gua sha helps lower our fight-or-flight response (sympathetic nervous response) and ups our rest-and-digest response to life11 (parasympathetic response)12.
Your baby’s skin is their first defense against the impacts of temperature, toxins, and bacteria. Gua sha helps stimulate the skin’s own immune function13, helping it work as the powerful barrier it’s designed to be.
This ancient massage technique increases the microcirculation that moves lymph and detoxifies your baby’s body of environmental contaminants like air pollution and chlorine in water.
And let’s not ignore another benefit from gua sha: giving this soft, smooth treatment to your baby helps lower your stress14 too, as you enjoy another way to bond together and more deeply.
Gua sha massage requires three or four things:
Rose quartz embodies loving energy and brings another layer of soothing energy to your massage. It helps build trust and harmony, provides comfort and calm, and promotes close connections15. Using it can activate specific regions in the brain and trigger the release of feel-good hormones like endorphins, dopamine, and natural painkillers16.
We wish every baby could have the comfort and pleasure of gua sha massage. You supply the sweet baby and our Gua Sha Set supplies the tools for pleasure, bonding, relaxing, and healing.
Parent by parent and massage by massage, our love for babies travels out to the world through every Gua Sha Set, helping create a world of health, peace, and joy.
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Gua sha is “used to treat conditions that have features of blood stasis, pain, and/or inflammation.”15 It helps improve the immune functions of the skin and boosts the immune system’s response16. Inspired by ancient methods, we've adapted the original, heritage-rich techniques to use with babies and pregnancy.
By stimulating microcirculation in the fascia right beneath the skin, gua sha fuels and strengthens your immune system to produce an antioxidant that helps lower inflammation. When that superficial fascia releases, it then transmits relaxation and increased circulation to deeper levels of fascia that also connect to your muscles and organs.
This cascade effect is why gua sha’s simple technique is so effective17.
Greater relaxation and increased circulation move toxins, inflammation, pain, and stress, up and out.
IS GUA SHA SAFE DURING PREGNANCY?
A question we often encounter is, "Is Gua Sha safe during pregnancy?" The short answer is yes, when used appropriately and with careful consideration for a woman's specific health needs. Gua Sha, while powerful, is fundamentally a gentle, non-invasive technique designed to promote healing and well-being.
During pregnancy, a woman's body undergoes significant changes and unique stressors, and Gua Sha can be an effective tool to alleviate some common pregnancy discomforts, like back pain or headaches. However, certain areas, especially around the abdomen, should be avoided during pregnancy as a precaution.
It's essential to remember that every woman's pregnancy is unique, and what may be suitable for one may not be for another. As always, it's recommended to consult with a healthcare provider or a trained Gua Sha practitioner before incorporating Gua Sha into your pregnancy wellness routine. They can provide personalized advice based on your health history and pregnancy's progression.
So, to all the expectant mothers exploring holistic and nurturing care options – rest assured. Gua Sha, when practiced correctly and under professional guidance, can safely be a part of your journey to motherhood, offering a wealth of benefits for both your physical and emotional well-being.
AT HOME PREGNANCY MASSAGE - HOW TO...
Apply Nurturing Oil and use our gua sha tool to gently feel your way around the muscles in your belly. Try closing your eyes when you do this so you can really tune into the inner-workings of your body.
Hold the tool at a 15% angle, almost flat against the skin. Use light pressure to soothe and relax your stretching muscles as you massage in the oil and gently glide the gua sha tool over your belly, thighs, and other areas where stretch marks might appear. Expect the skin to blush, but if it reddens or feels irritated, use less pressure.
You can also use our specially designed tool on your face and all over the rest of your body for an extra soothing treatment.
Gua sha is increasingly researched and used because it works not just on the site where you use it, but even areas far from that. It works not only for new pain but for old ones, for musculoskeletal issues or digestive ones, and almost anything18.
Licensed acupuncturists will give you, as an adult, a much deeper treatment than you will give your baby or yourself at home.
Gua sha uses a hydrating serum, oil and a specially carved stone that allows you to apply gentle pressure to bone areas like your jaw or elbow or neck. Chinese medicine places great value in the energy of different stones from which the gua sha tools are carved; jade, rose quartz, and amethyst stones tend to be the most popular. Each stone carries its own healing characteristics and is used for certain issues.
Though the stones are the most popular tool, you can also use a Chinese ceramic spoon, a coin, or even the metal lid from a canning jar.
Gua sha is all the rage these days because it’s a simple, gentle, and effective home treatment for facial care, and can now be used all over for babies and moms.
Once you get past the “I can’t do anything except sleep and care for my baby” stage of being a new mom, gua sha is a soothing, relaxing treatment for both of you.
Babies can harbor muscle tension, pain, and stress just from being born, and gentle gua sha can help release it. Because the stone can be warm or cool, it helps soothe tension or fever.
Especially when your child is recovering from illness, gua sha massage is soft and soothing, and can create a gentle flush on the skin.
For new moms and women of all ages19, it helps with c-section scars20, engorged breasts21, muscle aches and pains, insomnia, fatigue22, sweating23, cellulite, and facial lines24.
And all you need for all these benefits is good skincare + the right tool.
Our BEB Organic Soothing & Nurturing Gua Sha Set gives you everything you need. Our stone is a heart-shaped rose quartz (the “love” stone that builds trust, harmony, and self-worth25) that fits comfortably in your hand and mimics the curves of your breasts and body. Our Soothing Serum and Nurturing Oil are 100% free of toxins and 101% full of love and ingredients to feed your baby’s skin from the outside in.
Whether it’s you or your baby who needs a little soothing and a lot of relaxation, gua sha could be the massage that does so much with so little.
But let’s remember that every time you massage your little one, that bonding, relaxation, and health become part of you, too—your stress lowers, your immune system is boosted, and your connection with your baby is deepened.
Who could ask for more?
]]>Kate: I’m so excited to get to ask you all about Gua Sha for babies and pregnancy today, and about why you love the BEB Organic Nurturing Gua Sha Set. Thank you for being here!
Emma: You’re most welcome. I’m delighted to be here.
Kate: Before we begin, I’d love to hear more about your perspective. Would you mind telling us a little bit about yourself?
Emma: I’d be happy to! My name is Emma Goodman and I am a holistic esthetician and energy healer. I'm also a trained doula and I've done massage therapy, cranial sacral therapy. I practice a lot of different healing modalities, and then incorporate them all into one treatment, which is my signature facial. I call it the Skin Sourcery Facial, and work with Gua Sha tools for lymphatic drainage and helping to open up connective tissue, and really promote relaxation from the inside out. I’m based in Los Angeles, California, and I've been doing this for about 20 years. I’m just obsessed with skin and all things nerdy when it comes to holistic care for the body, the mind, the spirit, and for connection and bonding.
Kate: Amazing. Thank you. And you have a special love for Gua Sha. I found you on Instagram when I was on my own journey, trying to really understand Gua Sha. You stood out in such a big way. What is it about Gua Sha that you love so much?
Emma: When I first learned about Gua Sha it was because I had Gua Sha healing work done on my body, which is very different from facial Gua Sha. With body work you really rub the skin in a more rigorous way. It helps to create a lot of blood flow and circulation, which is super helpful for muscle pain and tension and for overall stress. And then I became really interested in Gua Sha for the face - in Gua Sha facials - because I received a facial from an esthetician that incorporated a rose quartz Gua Sha stone into my facial. And it felt so amazing. I just knew that it was the next thing I needed to learn. That was almost 10 years ago now.
Kate: How does Gua Sha change the way you feel in a massage? What's different about a Gua Sha massage versus a more typical type of massage or facial?
Emma: Gua Sha has a very different frequency because of the use of the stone. So it depends on the use of the stone and what you're trying to achieve. All stones are not created equal energetically. Rose quartz is loved for its healing, calming, and soothing benefits. It's known as the love stone. It helps to connect with the heart space, the heart chakra, opening up the heart, helping to release grief and any repressed emotions within the heart and circulatory system. It's very naturally cooling, so you don't even have to necessarily put it in the refrigerator to have the cooling effect of it. Rose quartz is really great for people who are very sensitive, like in most cities, people are very sensitive and their skin flairs up red, and it becomes even more sensitive when they’re exposed to pollution or to too many harsh chemical skincare products.
Kate: The BEB Organic Gua Sha Stone is made of rose quartz. Why do you love that for babies and mamas?
Emma: The Rose Quartz stone is known for trust, love and harmony. That is really an ideal energetic fit between parent and child. It can really connect the parent and child in a deeper bonding experience because there's an intention behind doing the massage. So as you use the products that you're using, and you start to massage your baby with the Gua Sha stone, it helps create the space for a deeper level of connection because of the energetics of the stone.
Kate: Wow. That sounds amazing.
Emma: So the heart shaped Rose quartz, the love stone, it builds trust, harmony connection and bonding. And I love the use of the stone during the BEB Organic Gua Sha massage for the baby, because you're really setting the intention of building that bonding experience. Usually you massage your baby before bed. So you're putting on all the products and really preparing the baby before the massage and then connecting with your baby, looking into their eyes and asking them for permission before you massage and, and then really tuning in to the energetics of the stone, and setting your intention - guiding the energy in a very, very subtle and gentle way to create a deeper type of bonding experience as opposed to just a normal baby massage.
Kate: That makes so much sense. The power of intention is so strong. You mentioned products. What products do you recommend to get the most out of a BEB Gua Sha treatment for babies or pregnancy?
Emma: The BEB Organic Gua Sha method for babies and pregnancy begins with the Soothing Serum to balance and clear followed by the Nurturing Oil to calm and smooth, and then you pair that with the BEB Organic heart shaped stone. It is the perfect combination because you thoroughly hydrate the skin with the Soothing Serum and then lock that moisture in with the oil. And Nurturing Oil provides the perfect glide to make the stone work at its best.
Kate: BEB Organic developed their own method of Gua Sha for babies and pregnancy because it hadn’t been done before. What is special and different about the BEB Gua Sha method?
Emma: What makes the BEB Organic Gua Sha method so special is that we're really slowing things down. So you're not using the Gua Sha tool as you normally would on the body for an adult, you're making it so that you're helping to open up the lymphatic system, help with drainage, help with circulation, promote the digestive system and healing. It's really wonderful for babies or pregnancy, and even up until your little ones are seven, eight, nine year olds. Hopefully by then they will be learning to use self-care and healing methods on themselves to cope with the stressors of life, but really, no one is too young or too old to love getting a Gua Sha massage.
Emma: The specific BEB Gua Sha method was designed to work at three different phases - prenatal, postnatal, and then also for your baby. When you use the BEB method for prenatal treatments it can help with stretch mark prevention, muscle stretching, help reduce labor discomfort and swelling. It increases circulation to support lymph drainage that removes toxins and helps with relaxation. And then when you use it on the face, it can really increase that pregnancy glow since it helps get more circulation to your skin.
Emma: When you're using the BEB Gua Sha method for prenatal, this will help with stretch mark prevention, lymphatic drainage, draining toxins from the body, muscle stretching. Regular massage has even been proven to shorten labor and improve the health outcomes of babies.
Emma: The BEB Organic Gua Sha method for postnatal can help with scar healing, mastitis, stretch marks, and this can reduce a lot of stress and tension within the body.
Kate: Wow. It really sounds like the BEB Organic Gua Sha massage method can do so much to help us! How is the BEB Organic Gua Sha method for babies different from regular infant massage?
Emma: Gua Sha massage for babies is different than regular infant massage in that it slows everything down just a little bit. The stone, the feel of the stone is very cooling and calming. It helps to reduce stress tension. It can also help with circulation underneath the skin. It helps with lymphatic drainage for the baby. It also helps with digestive support from colic. It just feels different and it's not that one type of massage is really necessarily better than the other. It's not that one should be used exclusively over the other. Gua Sha is a new, different and fun way to engage in that connection and that relationship that adds an entirely new element. When you have that whole wide surface from the stone to work with, it gives a different feeling and experience than what fingers can do. The benefits are different.
Kate: So the BEB Gua Sha massage for babies is different from regular infant massage in that you get to have a tool in your hand that can amplify the benefits of an infant massage. So there's more intention there. It feels different.
Emma: Yes. And from my experience with working with babies, this feels really good for them. It's very cooling and calming, really relaxing, and it uses a different sensation than your fingers do.
Kate: That definitely reflects my experience doing the BEB Organic Gua Sha method with my babies. And what about for pregnancy? How is pregnancy Gua Sha different from other types of Gua Sha, massage?
Emma: The BEB pregnancy Gua Sha is different from other types of Gua Sha massage in that it is very relaxing. So usually people who have had regular Gua Sha body massage have experienced more of a rigorous sensation and movement with a tool where you're bringing up blood flow. That's very similar to cupping in that it brings that blood flow to the surface and you see those hickey-like marks on the body.
This is very, very different. The BEB Organic Gua Sha pregnancy method is very slow and methodical. It's helping to drain lymphatics, open up fascia and connective tissue. And you're creating broad strokes with the side of the tool, which is very cooling and calming, but it is very effective in increasing circulation. So even though we're slowing down the pace of the massage, you're still able to get amazing results.
Kate: It sounds like Gua Sha for baby and pregnancy is very different from the traditional Gua Sha with rigorous rubbing, but it's not that different from facial Gua Sha. It sounds like we’ve figured out a way to get all those benefits that we've come to know and love from facial Gua Sha for prenatal, pregnancy and baby care. BEB Organic has essentially created a new method - the baby and pregnancy Gua Sha method - that translates those benefits that we know and love from facial gua sha to babies and pregnancy. Is that right?
Emma: The BEB Gua Sha method for baby and pregnancy is a little bit different than the Gua Sha method for the face, but not entirely. It does have that really slow, methodical pace to it, which also has amazing healing benefits - increasing blood flow and circulation, helping move toxins and stagnant lymph into the nodes for detoxification. It helps with lifting, firming and tightening by decreasing puffiness.
Kate: When you teach a new mom how to do the BEB Organic Gua Sha method with their baby, what do they really need to know to get started?
Emma: When I'm teaching my clients about how to Gua Sha for babies or when they are handling pre and post natal challenges, there are a few things that they need to know.
First are your tools. I want them to have the BEB Organic Soothing Serum, which is a water based serum that you’ll apply all over the baby. Second you need the Nurturing Oil. This has a pure oil base, which gives you a nice glide. Third, your heart shaped Rose quartz tool. You'll also need a cozy space. And the big points to know are really just the angle of the tool of how you're using it. The direction that you’ll draw the stone up and down the skin is really up to you. There's not a specific direction that you need to flow in, except when it comes down to the belly. You want to definitely massage in the area of digestion when it comes to the belly - wrapping around the rib cage and underneath the belly, underneath the belly button. When you massage the tummy, you should always move in a clockwise direction.
Emma: Then there’s the angle of the tool. You want to keep it at about a 15 degree angle. You want to have only enough space underneath the tool that your forefingers fit between the tool and your baby’s skin… or the skin of your belly or thighs. Then you're going to run the tool along the baby's skin or your own skin, depending on what you're using it for. And you're gently gliding it very, very, very slowly. So we're not trying to invoke any kind of quick circulation or redness. You're just doing it extremely slowly so that the connective tissue can slowly open up, and the fascia can release.
Kate: This all sounds great, but now I’m just full of questions. How should I position my baby? Should I lay my baby down? Are we going to sit in bed? When is the right age to start? What should I know about getting them ready? What is the best way to set intention and ask permission like you mentioned before?
Emma: So to prepare your baby, you want a nice cozy space. You want a little soft blanket on top of them. A great time for infant massage is after they get out of the bathtub and before bedtime. As for ages, it can be from newborn all the way up to an adult. There’s really no time too early or too late to start with Gua Sha as long as there are no underlying health conditions that prohibit massage of any type.
Emma: Before you start, figure out where that nice cozy space will be. You’ll lay your baby on their back and begin with just touching very gently and looking into your baby's eyes and asking permission. If it's okay for you to massage them, they will give you cues. Sometimes they're going to be fussy and they don't want to really do it at that time. So then you can just set it aside for another time, but if your baby is responsive and ready, and looking at you in the eye making eye contact, then it's safe to say that you can start. You begin by placing a couple of pumps of Soothing Serum in your hands, and just gently make sure that your hands are nice and warm before you directly apply the product onto your baby's skin.
Emma: I like to begin with the belly first and just gently using small strokes in a clockwise direction, and then applying it along the chest and out towards the arms and into the hands and that area, you can just kind of like rock them with your hands and smile and make cooing noises. And then you're going to go ahead and apply the Soothing Serum on each leg. So I begin at the very top of the trunk of the thigh and then go directly down towards the feet and end with the toes. Then you can flip them over and then you can apply your products on their back. And then also along the backs of the thighs and the calves and feet.
Kate: And what about the arms?
Emma: For the arms you can place your baby with their back against you. Just sit them in your lap so they're in an upright position. That way you have a better angle while you’re holding onto them and also massaging the left side of the arm, and then the right side of the arm.
Kate: And what if they are enjoying the massage and they want it, but they don't want to lay on their tummy. Can you give them a Gua Sha massage while they're sitting up or in any other positions?
Emma: You can have them setting up the whole time while you do the Gua Sha if that’s what they seem to like best. So if they're very wriggly and they don't want to be on their bellies at all, then you are able to do it with maybe a toy sitting in front of them. That can grab their attention, a toy sitting in front of them, so then you can slowly do your Gua Sha on your baby’s back.
Kate: That was a really thorough explanation. Thank you! What about the skull? Can you use the Gua Sha tool to help work out cradle cap with the oil?
Emma: You can definitely use Gua Sha to help with cradle cap. I would start with the Nurturing Oil and gently massage all over the scalp in a really, really gentle way. You can use your Gua Sha tool as well, just in a very slow rhythmic motion from the very top of the scalp and gently working your way to the back of the scalp. And remember that you're keeping the tool at that 15 degree angle. Babies also really tend to like Gua Sha on the face. You can first apply the Nurturing Oil along the face and scalp, and then you can gently rub with your fingers or the Gua Sha tool. Go from the middle line of the face, towards the ears and gently massage the ears every time you reach back toward the ears. And then you can gently use your Gua Sha tool in the same direction.
Kate: Safety is always a big question on parents' minds. Do you think Gua Sha is safe for babies and during pregnancy?
Emma: As soon as you are able to do infant massage for your baby, you can also incorporate Gua Sha. Most healthcare providers do recommend newborn massage as well as pregnancy massage starting in the second trimester. When your baby is old enough for massage, they're old enough for Gua Sha. But as with anything when it comes to babies and pregnancy, it is always a good idea to check with your healthcare provider.
Kate: That makes sense. Can you please tell us a bit more about how you hold the Gua Sha tool, and how much pressure to use?
Emma: For sure! The way you hold the heart shaped Gua Sha tool is from the very top of the heart. Use three or four fingers over the top and pointing down toward the bottom of the heart. Then slide it along the skin, always keeping it at about a 15 degree angle so your thumb fits comfortably between the stone and the skin.
Remember that when we're doing the Gua Sha method for babies and pregnancy, the pressure is very light. You're essentially only using the weight of the tool to gently glide across the baby's skin. So you're not putting any pressure from your hand onto it. With this slow and light pressure, you won’t see any blushing in the skin for babies. If you do see the skin blush, you will want to apply less pressure. The pressure that we're talking about is very, very gentle. So you won't be seeing any kind of redness coming to the surface. When you’re working on stretch marks or a c-section scar, it is okay to use more pressure to really amplify the microcirculation. For babies, the focus needs to be on relaxation and tension release in the muscles.
Kate: For how long and how often do you recommend doing Gua Sha with your baby?
Emma: My recommendation for baby Gua Sha would be at least five minutes per day. You can do this every day and when it's most convenient for you, but preferably in the evening after you've given them a bath and prepared them and made a comfy little area. It is good to lower the lights or put on soft music. Usually the time that you generally do your infant massage is when you can add in the BEB Gua Sha technique. If your baby is feeling fussy and not ready for the massage, then you can just do it at a different time or skip it for the day.
Kate: Let’s go back to pregnancy for a minute. Are there any areas of your body to avoid during pregnancy?
Emma: Yes. As with any type of massage during pregnancy, the places you would like to avoid using any type of reflexology would be your ankles, the wrists, and the top of your shoulders. You can really focus in on areas where you want to relieve muscle tension or prevent skin stretching that might contribute to stretch marks like on the belly, breasts and thighs.
Emma: So during pregnancy you can do your belly, you can do your breasts, you can do the backs of your thighs, the top of your neck for relieving tension around the glutes area, where you tend to get a nerve tension or nerve blockage.
Kate: And this sounds like it can be a really great way to bond with your partner as well. Just hand over the tool and let them get to work.
Emma: Definitely!
Kate: Something people really love about the BEB pregnancy massage is that it helps prevent and treat stretch marks. And that it helps with C-section and other kinds of scars.
Emma: Yes, it also helps with the same issues postnatally, and can help with breast engorgement too.
Kate: Oh, so let's talk about Gua Sha and the breast for a minute. Do you use products over the nipple area? Would you Gua Sha over the nipple or around it? Like if you're working on engorgement? How?
Emma: It's kind of like you're giving yourself a breast exam. So what you do is go in little circles. You can go all the way around the areola and put products on the nipple as well. The coolness of the stone helps with the heat of inflammation. The BEB Gua Sha method is really good to soothe breast engorgement because it encourages lymphatic drainage. When it comes to mastitis, you can use the Nurturing Oil because it is packed with antioxidants from Phytocura that can help prevent infection. Nurturing Oil is food grade, so you can use it all over the breast area - it is fine for breastfeeding and won’t interfere with your baby latching on.
Kate: So, how often should I do a Gua Sha on myself when I'm pregnant and for how long? And can I use it on my face too?
Emma: You can use the Gua Sha tool for your whole body, including your face. You can use it to amplify that beautiful glow for the face when you increase blood flow and circulation. It will lift and tighten the skin. Ideally you’ll Gua Sha for at least 5 minutes, and up to 20 minutes per day. Self care is so important.
Kate: Got it. So how does it work to help prevent and treat stretch marks? What's going on with stretch marks anyway?
Emma: Well, stretch marks are essentially micro-tears in the skin. Using the BEB Gua Sha method, along with the BEB Soothing Serum and Nurturing Oil, can really help prevent and also speed up the recovery of micro-tears. So the benefits of Gua Sha for stretch marks is that when you're using the products, along with the tool, you're helping to really nourish and speed the healing by actively increasing that microcirculation… and giving your skin that overall beautiful glow.
Emma: The bottom line for Gua Sha is that whether you are using it for yourself pre or postnatally, or for your baby, it is really good for overall circulation and blood flow, for detoxification and releasing tension.
Kate: And those are the exact benefits that we need to handle some of the toughest things about pregnancy.
Emma: Exactly!
Kate: Emma, thank you so much for answering all my questions! I know I had a million of them. You’re so knowledgable. I really appreciate your time!
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Gua sha helps lower our fight-or-flight response (sympathetic nervous response) and ups our rest-and-digest response to life (parasympathetic response).
This ancient technique is increasingly researched and applied in many modern circumstances because it works not just on the site where you use it, but even areas far from that. It works not only for new pain but for old ones, for musculoskeletal issues or digestive ones, and almost anything.
But first, let’s make sure everyone understands how this massage for tiny people is different from what adults have come to know and love: the “gua” in gua sha means “scraping,” but you will not scrape your baby!
Instead, you use a light, steady, smooth pressure that soothes.
Adult gua sha for the body and baby gua sha for the body are very different from each other. Baby gua sha is much more like facial gua sha.
If your acupuncturist has given you a gua sha treatment, the goal was to create the redness that indicates they have loosened adhesions and stimulated both circulation and relaxation. Research shows that this technique helps adults in so many ways:
But babies are tender and need a light touch with steady pressure.
Unlike the stroking type of massage or an adult gua sha treatment, the goal for your baby isn’t to apply pressure and evoke redness, it’s all about soothing and connecting.
Gua sha is a wonderful health-promoting technique that babies can benefit from, even if they’re feeling sick.
Whether they’re born through an easy homebirth or a surprise cesarean section, babies can carry stress, muscle tension, or injuries.
The light pressure you give helps relax—not challenge—your baby.
Gua sha massage for babies provides the same physical and psychological benefits15 it does for adults:
Your baby’s skin is their first defense against the impacts of temperature, toxins, and bacteria.
Gua sha helps support the skin’s immune function17, so it can work best as the mighty protective barrier it’s designed to be.
Our BEB Organic Soothing & Nurturing Gua Sha Set gives you both the best oil and a perfectly shaped stone.
Our stone is a heart-shaped rose quartz (the “love” stone that builds trust, harmony, and self-worth18) that fits comfortably in your hand and mimics the curves of your breasts and body.
Each of the stone’s curves and gullies are designed to fit different parts of little bodies. And because the stone can be warm or cool, it helps soothe tension and fever.
When you use nutritious, toxin-free serum and oil like our BEB Organic Soothing Serum (formerly named Healing Gel) or Nurturing Oil, you are also feeding your baby with every loving stroke.
Soothing Serum is pH balancing for the skin and provides healthy microflora for a thriving and protective microbiome.
Nurturing Oil combines over 6,000 bioactive compounds to help strengthen your baby’s skin and support healthy development of every part of their growing body.
Gua sha baby massage helps relieve discomfort and boosts relaxation, allowing your baby to use all their energy to grow well.
And let’s remember that every time you massage your little one, that bonding, relaxation, and health become part of you, too—your stress lowers, your immune system is boosted, and your connection with your baby is deepened.
]]>Whether your birth was vaginal or cesarean, your body went through a lot, and now arnica is ready to soothe pain and restore damaged tissue. It’s gentle enough for most bruises or wounds—even for preemies (once their skin is strong enough).
At BEB Organic, we love arnica—it’s a vital ingredient in our Soothing Serum (formerly named Healing Gel), designed with newborn safety in mind.
Our Soothing Serum contains not only arnica, but cypress to help reduce scars, elderberry to help fight the effects of toxins, microbiota for wound healing and skin hydration, myrrh to promote skin strength, and probiotics to maintain a healthy balance of skin flora.
We use wild-foraged arnica from the Swiss Alps because this flower, which looks-like-a-daisy, both speeds healing time[1], and increases the skin’s ability to absorb[2] medicinal salves. Greater absorption means more soothing in less time—more pain relief, less swelling, faster tissue repair[3].
Arnica montana grows in the temperate climates of North America, Europe, and Siberia. Its flowers are fundamental to homeopathic and traditional healing—not just for soothing, but because research shows it can act as an antibiotic after injurious events like
Research shows that arnica can be as effective as NSAIDs—like ibuprofen—but without the side effects[16].
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) says homeopathic arnica is safe for breastfeeding mothers and their babies[18].
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says, “Arnica is ‘generally recognized as safe.’"
Name me one person who doesn’t have a belly button!
Every birth results in the same wound—the umbilical cord stump. It may not be a gash or puncture, but the umbilical cord stump needs special attention until it dries up and falls off. Poor umbilical stump care can cause reddening, bleeding, infection, swelling, or even progress into sepsis—an over-reaction of the body that can cause organ failure [19].
Using a simple, effective healing treatment is important for any baby, and is especially for preemies who are still developing their immune system.
That's why the huge arnica echinacea powder study was so thrilling!
In 2012, an arnica–echinacea combination was used on the umbilical cord stumps of 6,000 newborns. The powder was applied twice a day, beginning on day one in the hospital then continued at home.
Normally, the umbilical stump takes one to two weeks to dry up and fall off,[20] but in the 2012 study, most (89%) had fallen off within four days, and almost all (96%) were gone within six days[21].
Arnica echinacea powder cut healing time almost in half.
Everyone benefits from such fast, economical results. The arnica echinacea powder was so easy to use, parents and medical staff loved it. Babies healed quicker and more easily. It was inexpensive for parents and hospitals.
What’s not to love about saving your baby some discomfort and saving money at the same time?[22]
Just like in our Soothing Serum, arnica is an important ingredient in powders, salves, tinctures, tea, or homeopathic remedies.
But each of us has our individual genetic makeup, lifestyle, or extenuating circumstances. Like any therapeutic treatment, your personal reaction—or your baby’s—could be the same or different than studies show. Always check with your doctor if you have questions.
Use the right form of arnica—sometimes salves are better, sometimes homeopathic remedies are better, sometimes tinctures are better. But none work all the time, for every need, so follow these guidelines:
What’s better for you and your little baby than healing, soothing, and pain relief all wrapped up in in a bottle of nourishing ingredients that also promote skin vitality?
Because our BEB Organic skincare products are so gentle and filled with health-building ingredients, they are hospital-approved for pregnancy and for all babies—preemies and full-term.
At the hospital or birth center when your healthcare team says it’s A-OK to bring in your own toxin-free skincare, using BEB Organic products for diaper changes, bath time, or skin nourishing, assures you’re giving only growth-promoting nutrients with every touch of your loving hand.
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22809174
[2] https://bmccomplementalternmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-6882-12-100
[3] https://bmccomplementalternmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-6882-12-100
[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25171757
[5] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21944657/
[6] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2133.2010.09813.x
[7] https://www.health24.com/Medical/Eye/Overview/Retinopathy-20120721
[8] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4105203/
[9] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3833497/
[10] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23947690
[11] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3085232/
[12]https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6691441_Homeopathic_arnica_therapy_in_patients_receiving_knee_surgery_Results_of_three_randomised_double-blind_trials
[13] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5986265/
[14] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK501828/
[15] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK501828/
[16] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17318618
[17] https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-721/arnica
[18] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK501828/
[19] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21923308
[20] https://americanpregnancy.org/first-year-of-life/umbilical-cord/
[21] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21923308
[22] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21923308
[23] https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-721/arnica
[24] https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-721/arnica
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Babies come from a world of constant touch. They come from the womb. They have grown for nearly 10 months from a single cell to a full-blown human all in the space of constant touch. Every opportunity we have to restore touch to our lives and theirs is an opportunity for greater love and longevity of closeness. The planning you do around products will play a role in how much time you will spend touching your new baby. Some distance is necessary, of course. The goal is to think through your options with awareness. Cribs and strollers create distance. Baby wraps and co-sleepers create opportunities for touch.
Touch amplifies emotional connection. The electrical charge that pulses through our bodies is magnified and changed through touch. When we stroke our new baby’s cheek, hold them to our chest, or grasp their little fingers, we are changed. They are changed. Physically, our bodies release oxytocin during sustained touch. It only takes 6 seconds of continuous touch to experience heightened levels of oxytocin. That is the feel-good hormone that triggers feelings of love.
But there is a catch. Touch is most effective when it is direct skin-to-skin contact for the full release of oxytocin. In your gear planning, remember to balance the distancing gear (like a stroller) with the touching gear (like a baby wrap). Both types of gear are very important.
There are so many ways to touch, skin-to-skin, and yet so many new parents are afraid to do just that. By planning ahead for engaging with baby in that way, you can increase your confidence to jump into touch. Here are a few reminders of ways to bond through touch, and heighten those feelings of connection.
Bathtime
The first bath, and every bath thereafter (until they kick us out of the bathroom) is an opportunity to connect and show love through touch. Embrace the experience. Scrub their hair, tickle their prune-wrinkled feet, and gently pick away at that stubborn bit of grime even after it is gone.
Baby Massage
Touch through baby massage has countless benefits, from helping us better understand each other’s queues to inspiring our babies' bodies to grow. Generally, a baby massage can last for 15 minutes. You’ll know when it is time to stop if they start wriggling a bit too much or start to cry. As you plan your birth and education, consider a class in baby massage.
Feeding
No matter how you feed, try to make sure your skin is touching baby’s. Baby is getting more than nutrient nourishment from food. Your touch during feeding is a critical component of growth, health, and bonding. As you think through gear in your birth planning process, learn about how to properly use pillows and tools to support touch.
Diaper Changes
The best diaper changes can last a solid 30 minutes. They have your full attention. After all, we can’t leave baby, even for a moment, alone on the changing table. You get to peel away their layers of clothes, notice every bit of their skin, laugh, play, and fully engage. Cleaning up a mess may only take a few minutes, but the connections that can be shared during a diaper change can last a lifetime.
Morning Hugs
Now that my boys are teenagers, we don’t have nearly as much time to touch as we once did, but we still have our morning hugs. We wrap up in each other’s arms and I silently count for 6 seconds, knowing that a regular dose of oxytocin every morning will contribute to a better day for everyone. It is never too early to start the ritual of morning hugs.
Together, largely through touch, we form the bonds that will hopefully carry us through all the hard things that happen in life – theirs and ours. By truly connecting, we develop empathy to experience each other’s reality with a depth that allows us to cry when they cry and do a happy dance when they are happy. From the first moments of planning your birth, remember the importance of touch. When we feel what they feel, they know. They feel appreciated. They feel loved. We feel loved.
]]>PHYTOCURA is the nutrient-rich complex that vitalizes all BEB Organic products to replenish sensitive skin with powerfully healing, bioactive nutrients. Our proprietary blend of phytonutrients brings together over 6000 bioactive compounds and an entire spectrum of micro and macronutrients in a delivery system that’s optimized to ensure health & healing for the most sensitive skin.
HEALING COMES HOME
After decades of research and years of clinical testing with a focus on skincare for babies born early, BEB Organic products with our special PHYTOCURA™ complex launched into the top-tier hospitals in 2014. To our delight, they quickly became the skincare of choice. Today, BEB Organic offers 5 uniquely formulated products, all enriched with PHYTOCURA, and all specially designed to nourish sensitive or fragile skin.
DECADES DEVOTED TO DEVELOPMENT
Our founder, Kim Walls, created PHYTOCURA after nearly 20 years of researching how to treat preemie baby skin problems such as severe dehydration, wounds and abrasions, environmental assaults and nutrient imbalances. Her preemie journey started when she was just 20 years old, practicing touch therapy with a little boy named Jarred.
MIRACLES IN BLOOM
Over the years, Kim discovered that certain bioactive elements from therapeutic plants like rose, cranberry, myrrh, and elderberry encourage miraculous healing and resilience for healthy-looking skin. She also learned that these medically revered wonder plants become even more potent when carefully sourced and blended together in very specific ways.
THE PURSUIT OF PERFECTION
Kim collaborated with leading chemists, nurses and doctors to develop the BEB Organic signature PHYTOCURA complex, combining an eye for safety data specific to preemie skin with an ear for the age-old wisdom of generations and cultures that came before. She worked closely with her father, the renowned founder of Epicuren, spending years experimenting with different ingredient combinations until they achieved perfection for each BEB formulation.
HOW PHYTOCURA WORKS
1) TARGETED
Certain building blocks of healthy skin cells - like proteins, vitamins, and micronutrients- are curated and selected from organic plant sources to support the successful propagation and proliferation of our body's own stem cells.
2) PROTECTIVE
The targeted nutrient building blocks are combined in a proprietary formula with the exact right balance to cultivate a micro-environment on the skin that facilitates the survival and longevity of our body's own stem cells.
3) ACTIVATING
Our phytochemical broth is then meticulously mixed into customized skincare bases that uniquely allow the skin cells to harness, utilize and maximize the targeted nutrients that have been provided to activate the innate and adaptive immunity that is part of the body's own cellular wisdom.
HEALING STARTS HERE
Our hero product is the BEB Organic Soothing Serum (formerly named Healing Gel) a miraculous, skin-perfecting probiotic serum. Like all BEB Organic skincare, it is densely packed with PHYTOCURA.
]]>Let’s start by setting expectations: There is no known cure for eczema. What we offer is a method to successfully manage your baby’s or family’s eczema. The goal is to keep it at bay as much as possible using an integrated approach that combines a natural lifestyle philosophy with evidence-based science.
Delicate and thin preemie skin especially needs non-toxic, health promotion by nurturing this first line of defense until it has grown and thickened. It’s East-meets-West, and Nature-meets-Nurture.
]]>Delicate and thin skin especially needs non-toxic, health promotion by nurturing this first line of defense until it has grown and thickened. It’s East-meets-West, and Nature-meets-Nurture.
Our hero to support eczema prone skin is our Soothing Serum because it has stellar proven results.
When we put the formula to this formula to the test in a third-party consumer study, 98% of users agreed that Soothing Serum balances and clears the skin. These study results were obtained following self-assessment of 73 participants using the product at home. Result times varied. Many saw instant results, many more after a few days. After the study was completed, 98% of users confirmed they loved the product and would recommend Soothing Serum to friends and family.
Here's our recommended routine for eczema-prone skin:BEB Organic Bubbly Wash, Silky Cream, and Soothing Serum (formerly named Healing Gel)
BEB Organic Bubbly Wash, Silky Cream, and Nurturing Oil
NOTE: Care for eczema-prone skin differs from care for baby skin with active flare-ups. Read on to learn more.
Here are some of our favorites:
Our BEB Organic 3-Step skin care routines, specially designed for eczema and eczema-prone skin, provide extra gentle cleansing, nourishment, and protection for baby’s skin.
To help prevent eczema-prone skin from flaring up, it is important to keep it from drying out. This can be challenging since your newborn’s sebaceous (oil-producing) glands are not yet fully developed.
Here’s your key to success—the BEB Organic Simple System:
Step 1: Bathe every other day, cleansing the skin with BEB Organic Bubbly Wash for hair and body. Babies don’t get very dirty, but if you can’t resist dipping your darling in the bath, a daily bath is fine, just keep it very short. Pat baby dry gently.
Step 2: Apply Nurturing Oil to face and body to help restore the skin’s moisture balance while supplying active levels of nutrients to support and strengthen skin health. Wait a moment for the oil to soak in. If you want an extra dose of prevention, use the Soothing Serum and/or Silky Cream before the Nurturing Oil. BEB Organic Soothing Serum (formerly named Healing Gel) and Silky Cream help naturally balance the skin’s moisture and flora to reduce the population of potentially harmful bacteria on the skin’s surface. So even if there is an eczema flare-up, chances of infection are minimized.
Note: Do not apply over-the-counter creams and lotions to open wounds or active eczema flares. Many contain harsh chemicals in them that can dry out and irritate baby’s skin rather than restore moisture to it.
Step 3: Now it’s time to block out moisture for the diaper area. Choose a thicker balm with strengthening skin healers like rosehip oil and ceramides to restore skin texture and maintain balance. Our 22% zinc base will help battle bacteria and seal out wetness. BEB Organic Diaper Balm gives velvety thick protection while imbuing tender skin with ingredients that accelerate healing, prevent infection, and manage painful inflammation.
Active Eczema Flair-upsIf your baby’s skin has active eczema flair-ups, you can avoid the risk of irritating or aggravating it by eliminating typical baby soaps loaded with toxins and chemicals that can just perpetuate the problem.
Step 1: A countertop water filter will give you chlorine-free water that prevents dousing your baby with chemicals at a time when their pores are most open. Give baby a quick bath (about 6 or 7 minutes) to keep them clean and provide water to the skin. BEB Organic Bubbly Wash not only rinses off easily and moisturizes, it softens skin and leaves it smelling mandarin-rose fresh without synthetic fragrances. Carefully pat them dry without rubbing their skin.
Step 2: If your doctor has recommended a steroid treatment cream, apply it immediately after our probiotic-enriched Soothing Serum (formerly named Healing Gel). Using Soothing Serum over the inflamed areas (and whole body) nourishes while it helps heal tender skin.
Step 3: Gently coat your baby’s body with ample amounts of Silky Cream and Nurturing Oil, but avoid disturbing the steroid cream or moving it around the body. If you aren't using steroid cream, then coat active flare-ups with BEB Organic Diaper Balm to allow for rapid healing while insulating the skin from infection-causing bacteria and irritating air pollution. Try Diaper Balm before using steroid creams if you can. It is always better to avoid steroids if they aren't absolutely necessary.
Please keep in mind that proper baby skin care for eczema is not the same as a medical treatment. Natural and organic baby skin care does not take the place of necessary drugs.
However, natural baby skincare may help reduce the need for steroids and other more aggressive medical treatments.
Skin care products and pharmaceutical products can work in tandem to help manage distressing baby skin problems like eczema.
Eczema can be both intimidating and frustrating. The support and guidance of a good doctor can be crucial to your success in the battle against baby eczema.
For flare-ups, using pharmaceutical steroid creams or other prescription medications may be necessary. They play an important role, but aren’t without side effects.
But a good doctor’s goal will most certainly be to keep eczema at bay without unnecessarily introducing steroids and their risk of side effects, like thinning skin and reduced skin immune function.
Your doctor will likely help you identify baby eczema triggers by listening to your story, asking good questions and maybe doing a patch test to identify allergies.
She may recommend steroid creams and will hopefully also give you lists of typical triggers to investigate—like the nickel-plating on most onesie snaps, dust mites in the bedroom, and pollen at the park.
She’ll tell you that a petroleum-free barrier balm (Diaper Balm) is absolutely essential to apply right after bath because it seals in moisture and helps calm or prevent an eczema flare-up.
Creating a plan of action with your doctor, following through with the approach you design together, and complying with follow-up visits are an important part of successfully managing baby eczema.
As is true of most health challenges, stress can aggravate baby eczema.
Preemies who are already dealing with the intense stress of just being in an air world they weren’t quite ready for—with skin that’s vulnerable and not ready to protect them—need as much soothing and support as they can get.
Key stressors in baby’s life are separation from mom, overstimulation, lack of attention, pain, hunger, lack of sleep, and picking up on the stress of others around them.
Understanding your baby’s cues will make you better equipped to reduce stress and fight the good fight against eczema.
Knowing how to interpret your baby’s cues helps build a parent’s confidence and satisfaction. And knowing you’re giving your baby the purest products to soothe worry, ease pain, and heal skin issues can relieve your stress as well as your baby’s.
Some eczema or stress triggers in the environment can’t be controlled, but many can. Triggers range from allergies to changes in the weather.
Because they can affect baby through their skin, lungs, and digestive system, key areas of concern are air quality, toiletries, fabrics, water, and food.
Many times, simple changes can help your baby thrive. Here’s a short list of questions to ask about potential triggers in your home:
The answers to these questions help you create a healthy environment.
Using natural products like fragrance-free laundry detergent, non-toxic floor cleaner and health-promoting skincare products like BEB Organic Bubbly Wash or Diaper Balm help prevent exposure to environmental contaminants.
Your baby's body must either store these contaminants in their tissues or eliminate them through sweat and other body systems.
Either way, the contaminants can trigger eczema. That is the single best reason to avoid gluten, fragrances, and harsh synthetic chemicals in baby’s wash, lotions and balms.
Gluten can be tricky to avoid as some big makers of skincare products actually use ‘Aveena Sativa’ (oats) as their active ingredient for baby eczema creams. While oats don’t inherently have gluten, there is a very, very high probability that the oats in those creams contain gluten from cross-contamination in crops and manufacturing facilities.
Remember to check the label to avoid baby creams and products with Aveena Sativa or other gluten-containing ingredients.
Symptoms of eczema will ebb and flow, and the trick to beating your baby’s eczema is to stay in the game.
Do the work to figure out what the most common triggers are for them and avoid it, even when there isn’t an active flare up. Triggers could change from time to time, so stay aware, be flexible and patient, and simply keep trying.
While more than 10%[1] of babies will experience eczema in their first 5 years, 50% of those cases will clear up as the baby ages, never to return again. The first 5 years are the most critical period for careful, thoughtful management of your baby’s eczema.
When something that once worked stops working, try something else. When something stops working, don’t hesitate to go back to the things that worked before.
[1] http://www.askdrsears.com/topics/health-concerns/skin-care/eczema
]]>Our powerful PHYTOCURA™ complex, which is at the heart of all BEB formulas, is concentrated with targeted nutrients and protein building blocks, combined in precise ratios to activate the body’s own healing processes.
Just as we teach the healing power of touch, PHYTOCURA™ teaches skin cells how to behave in a way that optimizes skin health with proper hydration, nutrition, and barrier protection.
PHYTOCURA™ works by activating the innate immunity that is part of our body’s natural healing process. Our findings led to a skincare methodology based on 4 fundamental actions - Curate, Activate, Regenerate, Educate. (C.A.R.E.)
With our unique C.A.R.E system, BEB Organic encourages the creation of developmental cells and unlocks skin’s extraordinary ability to heal and restore itself.
CURATE the right nutrients, vitamins and proteins, targeting powerful natural ingredients that help our bodies make their own developmental cells.
ACTIVATE efficacy by strategically combining nutrient and protein building blocks in precisely balanced ratios that create nourishing conditions for skin to heal and thrive.
REGENERATE skin cells by mixing the ingredients into customized skincare bases and delivery systems that encourage skin’s natural processes to operate at their highest capacity.
EDUCATE on the power of touch to amplify healing benefits, working with PHYTOCURA™ to activate our innate immunity.
Skin is a soft tissue that makes up approximately 8-16% of our total body. It covers the whole surface area of the body and is a self-repairing, self-renewing organ that forms an important barrier, separating the outer environment from our internal organs.
The various parts of the skin (the dermis, epidermis, proteins and fatty acids) form a well-organized and sophisticated environment. Different cell types continuously interact with each other, repairing and regenerating the skin, creating a normal balance and effective recovery from skin injuries.
Many distinct populations of healing cells are found within our skin. They make up a plentiful array of cell types that have the potential to strengthen the skin's developmental process.
Phytocura supports skin by enriching those cell populations and cultivating a microenvironment that facilitates the health of those cells.
Because the skin regenerates approximately every 27 days, it is in a continuous state of renewal – constantly recovering from an often challenging environment from pollutants in the air, UV and blue light exposure, adhesives from bandages and simple pricks from a splinter or needle.
The skin is in a constant state of "wound healing" that comes from within and is generated from our bodies' very own developmental cells.
Skin that is in a "wounded" state has a damaged barrier and immune function and alters how the body perceives pain, temperature, and touch. The nervous system –responsible for our sense of touch – plays an important role in keeping the skin in balance ("homeostasis") and in maintaining the skin's ability to consistently regenerate ("wound healing").
Healthy sensory cells that respond appropriately to touch are an important sign of healthy body development.
Protecting and enhancing our body's healing cell creation is part-and-parcel of supporting touch and immunity.
That's what Phytocura does—it promotes the healthy development of skin by providing the exactly right combination of micro- and macronutrients from carefully sourced ingredients.
HOW PHYTOCURA WORKS
1) TARGETED
We've curated and selected certain building blocks of healthy skin cells (like specific proteins, vitamins, and micronutrients) from organic plant sources to support the successful propagation and proliferation of our body's own developmental cells.
We work hard to source the ideal plants that provide micro and macronutrients to form the building blocks for our bodies' own developmental cells. Where and how any plant is harvested makes a big difference in how much nutritional value it can provide in a skincare formula.
Wild-harvested plants from specific farms have far more nutrient value than others. We take great care to carefully process and test them to validate their value.
2) PROTECTIVE
Our targeted nutrient building blocks are combined in a proprietary formula with the perfect balance to cultivate a microenvironment on the skin surface. This facilitates the longevity of our body's own developmental cells by creating a well-nourished, well-hydrated, and balanced skin surface.
For optimal nutrient extraction and usability in your body, BEB Organic plant ingredients are cold-processed and manufactured in small batches.
To achieve the ultimate supportive results at the cellular level, we use exacting scientific standards to ensure that precisely the right amount of each micro- and macronutrient is properly blended into the Phytocura Complex.
It is important to use just the right amount of each ingredient (like rosehip and cranberry oils) to create the perfect balance.
Think of it like a gourmet meal where too much of this or that ingredient can completely ruin the experience!
3) ACTIVATING
Our unique phytochemical broth is meticulously mixed into customized skincare bases. These allow skin cells to harness, utilize and maximize targeted nutrients to activate the innate and adaptive immunity that is part of a body's own cellular wisdom.
With a clinical focus on cutaneous immunity in the ever-growing field of stem cell research, we've developed Phytocura Complex to target, protect and activate the ancient healing wisdom of our own bodies by leveraging the strength from within.
]]>While your little one grows in her NICU incubator or bassinet, and then once she comes home to you, one of her anchors will always be your presence and touch.
Delicate preemie babies—those born before 37 weeks gestation—need as much help as possible to survive and catch up. Tender touch and skincare helps your preemie become her strongest.
]]>Delicate preemie babies—those born before 37 weeks gestation—need as much help as possible to survive and catch up.
Suddenly becoming the parent of a preemie means you have to rally your resilience, your partner and family bond, and your own self-care to manage this intense new situation.
You may feel everything from relief to despair to hope...and every one of those powerful emotions are normal, natural, and expected.
For many parents, the long-awaited birth was probably not the one you imagined, and even less the one you planned for. Your baby may have been whisked away to NICU before you even got to look into their eyes.
So when you get to their incubator in the NICU, your first sight of your child could be of them hooked up, with needles and tubes all over the place, maybe with their eyes shielded from the light...and the sight of you.
Depending on how premature they were, this tiny person you're waiting to take home may be far from the image of the pink newborns you expected.
Preemies are undeveloped, so even though they're now in an earthly air environment, they can look like an other-world being: their skin can be dark and wrinkled; they're covered with lanugo—a fine downy hair that protects in water; they're so tiny; they probably don't interact.
You can feel both scared and excited—excited to be with your baby, but scared to hurt them by passing on infection or interfering with their care.
And your partner,—who may have felt powerless during the sudden birth drama—can feel the same as well as wonder what their role is or whether they have a place in care or decision-making.
And each of you may deal with all of this differently.
What preemies need most is time and mom. Depending on how early your baby was born, even your voice may be overstimulating. They may not be able to be touched at first because their skin is so thin it can be damaged.
But your presence and your scent can reassure them.
When their skin is thick enough, you can touch their feet, back, hand, or head. By now they're strong enough to deal with stimulation from talking.
Now is the time every parent has a role in bonding, strengthening, and healing.
Touch connects you to baby, and baby to you. Now that they're capable, they will long for your gentle touch. Research shows that a parent's loving touch helps a preemie
Even in tests done 6-12 months later, such positive results from caring touch showed these premature infants still measured above their peers who were not frequently touched.
Every nurse, doctor, and attendant wants their babies in NICU to go home as soon as possible. But the skincare products commonly used are often full of chemicals that help absorption, give a nice scent, or preserve the product's stability.
That's fine for strong adults, but these chemicals can be toxic to the still-developing biology of vulnerable babies.
Manufacturers don’t have to claim everything they put in these products—including and especially, artificial fragrances— so we cannot know for sure how safe they are.
Chemicals that make your baby smell sweet as bubblegum easily pass through their thin skin and can disrupt their still-developing
Knowing what you can do to uplift and protect your little one helps increase your confidence as a parent in supporting your baby’s health.
Using organic-based skincare products not only nurtures through your touch as you apply them, they can help increase your preemie’s health with each pat or stroke of your hand.
Products like BEB Organics made with pure essential oils help avoid negative effects from chemicals.
Such products not only clean, calm, and soothe in the gentlest and healthiest of ways, their ingredients can also help manage infection, inflammation, or dryness.
Amidst the noise of machines and attendants, your voice is the one that calms your wee one. Your scent is the one they know. Your touch is what they long for most.
You and the NICU nurses are a team. The rule of thumb is: ALWAYS ASK. The other rule of thumb is: YOUR INTUITION MATTERS.
Ask them when your little one is ready for you to bring in your own skincare products. Then you can:
Let's remember, too, that studies show mothers can identify their baby by smell within a couple of days after birth.
And babies respond to their mother's scent. Mom’s scent on her clothing has shown to calm a crying baby—some hospitals allow a piece of mom’s clothing in preemie incubators or bassinets for just this reason.
Scents matter, so use ones made from pure ingredients that also help soothe and calm. A small drop of soothing essential oil (orange, chamomile, rose) on your wrist or hands combines your personal scent with one that helps the stress reduction that helps your preemie's growth and development.
When you use fragrance-free skincare for yourself – like our BEB Organic products – the smell won’t interfere with the calming scent of your own body. Certain ingredients, like pure organic rose oil, may leave a light smell that mingles with your own, helping reduce stress and increase relaxation.
But, be careful! Even the healthiest smells aren’t helpful if you introduce too many, too soon.
Delicate preemies often need to grow a lot more before they can tolerate scents.
An organic baby wash will prevent chemicals from soaking into your baby’s porous skin, but still keep them smelling “fresh as a baby.”
Soothing scents, gentle cleansing, and pH-balanced organic washes protect their largest organ—the skin. Vibrant skin–even while it’s still developing—protects baby from outside toxins while it works to control their internal body temperature.
As you sit with your baby, try to remember to breathe in hope with each inhale, and breathe out fear on the exhale.
Each time you apply healthy products on your baby, you’re also applying them to yourself and supporting your own healing from birth.
The encouraging words you whisper into the incubator are also going into your brain…let them soothe you.
And healing takes time.
Despite the need to be with your baby in the hospital, you must get rest and nutrition.
Your partner is trying to recover from a difficult birth where they may have felt helpless, and now have the added responsibilities of caring for the family.
Your entire family needs some rest, peace, food, and laughter to lighten the burden and increase personal fortitude, and every family can decide how they do that best.
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Ah, rose (the flower, not my neighbor next door) has been one of my favorite scents since I started mixing skincare ingredients with my father when I was five years old. Maybe it’s the scent that made me feel good in Dad’s lab – a scent the ancients knew could calm the queen. Though a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, its unique properties have been a favorite of healers and helpers for millennia. That’s one big reason why we love rose.
And that’s why at BEB Organic, Rosa canina is one of our must-have ingredients.
]]>Though a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, its unique properties have been a favorite of healers and helpers for millennia, and a big reason why we love rose.
At BEB Organic, Rosa canina is one of our must-have ingredients.
We want to help relieve concerns and stress during pregnancy and parenting with specialized skincare that not only supports delicate new skin, it also lifts the spirits.
BEB Organic products are so full of healthy ingredients, they feed your and your baby’s skin with every application.
We all need all the health-promoting advantages we can get so we not only grow but thrive. But our skin is often extremely thin and delicate; it dries out easily – especially under stress.
Because rose heals, strengthens, and calms, we use it in our products to give parents and babies nutrients and comfort from the outside in.
Rose’s benefits have been studied far and wide, by the ancients and by modern science.
Rose fossils discovered in America are 30 million years old. This plant’s beauty with its dense cluster of petals descends from the prized plants that medicine used over 3,000 years ago. And we know that distillation of roses to extract its oil originated in the late 7th century AD. Today, 200 rose species and more than 18,000 cultivars/varieties have been identified. That’s a big community!
Every R. canina blossom contains so little oil, it is a precious commodity. And it takes three years gestation for a plant to produce enough flowers to be economically viable. Aren’t you glad your baby wasn’t a rose?
Because it takes tens of thousands of rose blossoms carefully plucked at dawn to make one ounce of oil, it is one of the most expensive plant oils.
Here’s another head-spinning fact: To get one part oil you need 3,000 parts of flowers! Fortunately, you only need a few drops to receive rose’s laundry list of benefits.
But the oil is not only expensive it’s delicate. Rose oil must be carefully stored and packaged or it can spoil and lose its valuable properties.
But it’s worth every penny to us as we blend it into our BEB Organic Bubbly Wash, Silky Cream, Nurturing Oil, Soothing Serum (formerly named Healing Gel) and Diaper Balm. Why? Because we want pregnant bellies and babies to be happy and grow well because they’re healthy and feel good.
Because of its powerful benefits, we use rose at every opportunity in our healing skincare products. Even our basic preservative system – phenethyl alcohol – is a derivative of rose. Allow me to gush about why we love rose so you can fall in love with R. canina, too.
Rose oil (also called rose otto, attar of rose, attar of roses or rose essence) is pale, yellow, and semisolid, extracted from the blossom, and claims the high market price. No wonder rose is called the King of Flowers.
Rose hydrosol (also known as rosewater, rose floral water, or rose distillate) and absolute oil are less expensive and derive from steaming rose buds in copper vats to release the oil into water. That oil is carefully removed, leaving a therapeutic liquid full of micromolecules. That rose water is captured, one drop at a time…
Rose water has deep symbolic significance as a symbol of love and purity. It’s used at wedding ceremonies both on the skin and in food to ensure a happy marriage. Rose water’s calming, uplifting effects are also used to facilitate meditation and prayer.
Rose hip is the fruit of the blossom that forms after the blossom has been removed or fallen off. They overflow with oil, sweetness, and health-promoting benefits. Rosehip seed oil (Rosa canina) soaks easily into skin, helping keep skin moisturized and soft.
Rose flowers are dried and used for scent. The dried petals are often used in food because they help digestion.
Put all these parts together and you have a litany of goodness that’s even safe for tender preemies:
Rose is rich with phenolics - chemical compounds plants produce to fight their own stress, and which support us, too. Phenolics help against:
With our rose-infused skincare products, we want to help you help your baby and yourself.
We know that as a new parent you are balancing a whole new universe and that you, your family and your baby are all experiencing stress – maybe even full blown anxiety. When it comes to skin, that stress plays out in so many ways – in particular as rash, baby acne and blotchy skin.
These are not only uncomfortable they leave your baby open to infection. Strong skin is our first defense, but irritated and weakened skin creates a fertile environment for bacteria.
A newborn baby has trouble building skin, especially if they come early, maintaining body temperature, and defending against environmental impact. For preemie skin, in particular, we must remember that it is thinner than a full-term newborn’s and is working overtime to become the powerful and effective defense it will be when it matures and thickens.
All baby skin easily dehydrates, and preemie skin does it faster than normal. Dehydration leads to rashes that can lead to infection. Dehydration is uncomfortable and creates stress. Dehydrated preemie skin can carry scars from needles or irritation from tape. None of that is fun.
Reducing stress and increasing a sense of wellbeing is crucial for your baby's growth.
Because it’s thin and porous, baby skin easily sucks in anything that’s applied to it. Many skincare products for pregnancy and babies are filled with toxins and chemicals that help those products smell good or preserve them for who-knows-how-long. One of the major (and common) toxic players is the ubiquitous “fragrance” in nearly every skincare ingredient list.
But these chemicals can have a heavy impact on your and your baby's developing body – many are known to disrupt hormones, breathing, digestion, brain/nerves and can cause cancer.
You can see how using skincare products that are pure, plant-derived, and 98% organic support your baby’s health instead of challenge or distort it. For preemies, this support is crucial.
BEB Organic never uses anything that can hurt. We have spent decades finding just the right formulas that give your little baby a dose of nutrients with the loving stroke of your hand.
We only use the highest quality ingredients, including the rose oil in our skincare line. Our water-based products help balance skin, and even our Diaper Balm, which contains no water has amplified healing properties because of its zinc with rosehip seed oil.
A LOT goes into creating high-quality healing oil. A good brand should follow these guidelines:
BEB Organic meets every one of these criteria. We research, question, test, and approve each of our ingredients to assure we’re giving your baby the highest quality and densest nutrition.
When it comes to the NICU experience, you and your baby are both under stress – oftentimes, scary, overwhelming, contracting stress of getting through this time, if your baby will grow enough to come home, and how to manage your family/work under these conditions.
Stress can have a big effect on skin vitality and function by increasing water loss (dehydration) and increasing cortisol (fight-or-flight) levels that affect blood pressure, inflammation, and sleep. We’re talking about for your baby and you.
Anything that lowers stress for your preemie means it’s promoting her growth. And research shows that rose is a “green odor” that lowers stress.
Your baby in the NICU needs your presence and your touch to feel safe, secure, and relaxed so she can use her energy to grow, heal, and strengthen. When she can bear touch, your hand on her skin lowers her stress. When she’s strong enough to have skin-to-skin time with you, your smell, heartbeat and voice are soothing, calming, and vitalizing.
You can tell the NICU staff (who work hard to support your needs and desires) that you want to only use healthy skincare products on your baby. From Bubbly Wash to Diaper Balm, your NICU hospital bag can contain everything you need to wash and nurture your preemie’s skin and hair.
Let’s not forget what this means to you. Yes, it feels good to help your child. But everything you give to her you’re giving to yourself. When you use our rose oil products, they help lower your stress, too. They sink into your skin and nurture it, too. They keep your skin hydrated, too. They help make you feel better.
Maybe right now you can only watch and talk to your little munchkin in the NICU incubator. Apply luscious drops of Silky Cream or Nurturing Oil to your hands, rub briskly to release the scent, and hold your hands to your own face. Breathe deeply. Ahhh….
Check with NICU staff then do the same thing but this time hold your hands to the incubator’s opening, letting rose’s relaxing, organically natural scent gently float in the air. Or if your preemie is ready for your hand on bare skin, let the scent come from the heat generated between your hand and her back, leg, arm, or head.
BEB Organic wants to help. We want to encourage touch between parents and babies. Touch helps so much, and the list of benefits for preemies is long. When your touch imparts nutrition along with love, you’ve found the magic combination. BEB Organic skincare helps with both.
Babies are born to be perfect. BEB Organic creates joy.
]]>BEB Organic product formulations are truly different - from how we source our ingredients to our transparent communication. Before any product ever touches your baby’s skin, it must pass through our 5-level safety assurance program, which we call our "5-Heart Safety System"
]]>Founded in Los Angeles, we collaborate exclusively with partners who share our core values, paying fair wages, engaging in fair trade, sourcing organic, natural, safe and cruelty-free materials. We don't test products or ingredients on animals, and we don’t ask others to do so. Whether we are getting eco-friendly labels made or sourcing raw materials, we partner first with the people we know, love and trust.
The majority of ingredients we work with are certified organic. Those that aren’t organic (which is an agricultural designation) are either entirely natural (like purified water or zinc mineral) or derived from non-GMO plant sources (like our extra-gentle Bubbly Wash surfactants). We do more than boasting about the benefits of individual organic ingredients. We analyze all available safety data and engage in our own clinical safety trials as well. Since the US doesn’t sufficiently ban damaging chemicals that are commonly used in personal care products, we formulate to the highest standards worldwide.
After carefully choosing individual ingredients, we then create a finished formulation – like Diaper Balm or Silky Cream. Before ever becoming available to buy, our products are clinically tested for skin irritation, allergic reaction, and the presence of gluten. Further, we test for efficacy – making sure the products really do what they say they will do. Throughout the entire product development process, we test diligently to make sure our ingredients are safe, work together as a formula and are well-tolerated by baby skin.
Especially in the context of rigorous screening and thorough clinical evaluations, there is always more to learn. Safety requires vigilance. As new data becomes available and new solutions for common skin problems become known– from diaper rash to baby acne – we continue to study, test and develop new formulas to support your baby’s health and safety. Our panel of experts – including doctors, nurses, midwives and clinical researchers – regularly monitor new scientific data to help ensure your family’s safety.
Health and safety are the most important factors when it comes to choosing products for your baby’s skin. To help you make the safest choices, we provide education – both at home and in the clinical setting – as well as share our ingredient details openly for every product. From sourcing to safety ratings, you'll find honest and authentic information on our own site and in EWG’s Skin Deep database.
With BEB Organic, you and your baby are in safe, loving hands.
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When we’re sad, a hug helps. When we’re frightened, holding hands boosts our courage. When we want a quick celebration, we give a high five.
Humans live for touch and our skin is our first means of communication. Modern research has discovered what ancient healers have known forever: touch heals, supports, and strengthens us.
Touch is so powerful, we need it to grow well, healthy, confident, and compassionate. BEB Organic exists to promote positive touch, and here are 10 reasons why it can create a better world.
]]>Humans live for touch and our skin is our first means of communication. Modern research has discovered what ancient healers have known forever: touch heals, supports, and strengthens us.
Let us count the ways:
When a baby is born, their first experience is through touch. Many birthing parents and their caregivers strive to make that first experience a loving, tender one that gives soothing and comfort. When a widow is grieving, our hand on her shoulder tells her we care. When a young adult is upset, a hug or pat on the back says, "I hear you." Touches communicates, “You are safe.” and “You are not alone.”[1]
Babies learn first through touch[2]. Studies from the 1800s demonstrated that babies who were not cuddled beyond their basic needs were more likely to die of fetal failure to thrive. They just didn’t grow. Touch affects the right side of our brains and stimulates the central switchboard of our emotions—it’s one reason why skin-to-skin contact for newborns and preemies produces such a long list of benefits. Chief among those benefits is that touch fosters bonding—the foundation on which relationships are built throughout the rest of life. Good touch promotes the development of attachment. Bad touch does the opposite[3].
Touch offers no vitamins or calories, yet it’s essential to sustaining life[4]. Sharing hugs provides a stress buffer that has a protective effect against respiratory infections[5]. Touch lowers blood pressure, cortisol level, and heart rate. And it increases immune system function, wound healing, and positive outlook.[6] No matter if we’re adults or babies, positive touch is good for our health.
Soothing aches and pains through touch is not only ancient healing, it’s modern science. Research shows that touch can diminish the experience of pain[7]. Massage therapy[8]—one of the most effective forms of touch[9]—is well-known for increasing circulation, reducing swelling, stimulating attentiveness, decreasing depression, and strengthening our immune system. Massage therapy’s soothing effect has relieved prenatal depression in women and their partners[10]. And many children with autism (who we believe don’t want touch) actually love being massaged by a parent or therapist[11].
Over 7 million people in the US live with PTSD[12] and the anxiety that goes with it. When anxiety levels are high, it’s harder for the body to heal[13]. Pets—especially trained touch-therapy pets—offer a constant opportunity for soothing the mind through gentle touch[14] and bonding. Touching patients with Alzheimer’s disease can greatly affect their ability to relax, make emotional connections with others, and reduce symptoms of depression[16].
6. Teaching / Learning
Touch communicates emotions and influences our social behavior[17]. It teaches us how to be members of our group. Good touch stimulates the brain region associated with learning and decision-making, as well as emotional and social behaviors[18]. Loving, positive touch teaches us that compassion is safe and we can approach life with curiosity, joy, and gentleness because our group supports us.
"In a few decades scientists have gone from a conviction that there is no such thing as energy fields in and around the human body to an absolute certainty that they exist."[19] Therapeutic Touch[20] or Healing Touch[21] are effective, non-invasive therapies that speed healing by supporting physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health. Energy medicine has reduced chemotherapy side effects and eased the dying process. Because energetic healing can help lessen the anxiety of people with PTSD, growing numbers of hospitals use these non-toxic, economical therapies. Energetic touch helps patients in ways high-tech medicine can’t. No wonder increasing numbers of nurses rely on it[22].
There is great precision in touch, and social rules for it are highly refined. We touch certain people in certain ways. The difference between good touch and bad touch is timing, place of touch, context, and purpose[23]. When touch boundaries are well-defined, recognized, and upheld, we can relax as we exchange appropriate touch with others.
It’s harder to face a scary situation (like confronting adversary) or an intense situation (like childbirth) alone[24]. Receiving supportive touch increases our sense of capability and can lower pain in the process. Research shows that holding a doula’s hand during labor and childbirth helps women feel stronger and more capable, lowers pain and pain medication needs, reduces Cesarean section rates, and results in positive birth experiences that can stave off postpartum depression. All of which adds up to the economics of touch: more touch is cheaper than more drugs.
People feel better in families that are rich with positive touching[25]. Promoting touch empowers family members to become more involved in their child’s or sibling’s care. Touching promotes empathy for struggles the others may be going through[26]. And during the inevitable conflicts families have, positive touch can create a closeness that bridges the difficulties. Families that touch through romance, play, or snuggles also tend to talk to each other more, which helps each person feel included and informed, and increases their sense of well-being.
Touch is one of the most fundamental and effective ways to create a sense of connection and community with your fellow humans and create a better world[27].
[1] https://ct.counseling.org/2017/03/healing-language-appropriate-touch/
[2] https://www.prospectivedoctor.com/healing-power-of-touch/
[3] https://ct.counseling.org/2017/03/healing-language-appropriate-touch/
[4] http://theconversation.com/touch-creates-a-healing-bond-in-health-care-59637
[5] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323143.php
[6] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273229711000025
[7] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323143.php
[8] https://www.health.harvard.edu/alternative-and-complementary-medicine/the-healing-power-of-touch
[9] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273229711000025
[10] https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/hands_on_research
[11] https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/hands_on_research
[12] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319824.php
[13] https://www.nicabm.com/therapeutic-touch-effectiveness-treating-anxiety/
[14] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319824.php
[15] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3805974/
[16] https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/hands_on_research
[17] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18992276/
[18] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323143.php
[19] James Oschman Ph.D. Energy Medicine, The Scientific Basis, 2000.
[20] https://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/therapeutic-touch
[21] https://www.healingtouchprogram.com/about/what-is-healing-touch#experts
[22] https://experiencelife.com/article/the-touch-that-heals/
[23] https://ct.counseling.org/2017/03/healing-language-appropriate-touch/
[24] http://theconversation.com/touch-creates-a-healing-bond-in-health-care-59637
[25] http://theconversation.com/touch-creates-a-healing-bond-in-health-care-59637
[26] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-03627-7#ref-CR22
[27] https://experiencelife.com/article/the-touch-that-heals/
]]>The silkiness of our BEB Organic Silky Cream owes a lot to the rich effects of its organic flaxseed oil. Flaxseed oil is—among other things—the best plant-based source of tumor-reducing omega-3s[1].
Our nutritious skincare products feed your baby from the skin in.
We want your baby to get the many benefits of organic flaxseed oil from Saskatchewan, Canada, loaded with heart-healthy alpha-linolenic acid ALA (omega-3)[2].
Your baby’s body can’t produce this vital omega and must get it from their food (and in their skincare).
Omega-3 fatty acids help reduce inflammation, improve heart heath by keeping arteries elastic, and protect the brain[3].
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Our organic flaxseed oil from Saskatchewan, Canada is loaded with heart-healthy alpha-linolenic acid ALA (omega-3)[2].
Your baby’s body can’t produce this vital omega and must get it from their food.
Omega-3 fatty acids help reduce inflammation, improve heart heath by keeping arteries elastic, and protect the brain[3].
Our nutritious skincare products feed your baby from the skin in, and that’s why we want your baby to get the many benefits of organic flaxseed oil’s omegas.
Fortunately, flax helps both constipation and diarrhea[4].
And it helps reduce the growth of cancer cells[5].
As if all those benefits weren’t enough, here's another—flaxseed oil helps hydrate tender skin and increase its smoothness while decreasing roughness.
At the same time, our organic flaxseed oil helps reduce skin sensitivity to irritation.
We love the organic flaxseed oil in our Silky Cream because it increases skin moisture and helps ease the inflammation caused by tape, needle pricks, and medical procedures.
Flaxseed oil’s many benefits help feed your little one from the skin in, promoting their health and their growth.
Every time you smooth Silky Cream on your baby, you’re giving them a bit of the omega-3s (among other nutritional benefits) they need for growing a healthy, strong body.
At BEB Organic, we want our skincare products to not only soothe and uplift your baby, but to feed and strengthen them with every stroke of your loving hand.
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5808339/
[2] https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/benefits-of-flaxseeds
[3] https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/flaxseed-oil-benefits#section1
[4] https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/flaxseed-oil-benefits#section1
[5] https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/flaxseed-oil-benefits
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When I did my research, I found that despite my doctor telling me not to worry about it, there was a lot I could do to stop the baby acne from spreading and to prevent infection. Whew, baby acne solved at last!
My little one wasn’t even sleeping through the night when he started getting the acne I thought wouldn’t appear until puberty. I wondered if it was my diet that was putting irritants into my milk, or if he was catching something that would spread and hurt him.
We set to work right away to create Soothing Serum to support and solve this common but troubling problem.
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Whew, baby acne solved at last!
We set to work right away to create Soothing Serum to care for and heal this common but troubling problem.
When we put the formula to the test, the results were stellar! In third-party consumer studies: 98% of users agreed that Soothing Serum balances and clears the skin. These study results were obtained following self-assessment of 73 participants using the product at home. Result times varied. Many saw instant results, many more after a few days. After the study was completed, 98% of users confirmed they loved the product and would recommend Soothing Serum to friends and family.
This acne-prone stage is a little-known, but normal, phase of skin development that affects over 20% of babies in the first 6 weeks of life. It occurs as your baby’s skin adjusts from the aquatic environment in mom’s belly to the air environment after delivery and to the rush of hormones your baby received from you shortly before birth.
Your baby could have red or white pimples from birth or they could appear after the first few weeks, usually just on the cheeks but sometimes they reach up to their forehead and down to the chin. Though they can irritate and turn a model child into a mottled child, they will disappear with time. The best thing you can do is stop the acne from getting worse to prevent infection and scarring.
Baby acne is caused by one or a combination of 6 primary triggers on the skin surface:
1) hormonal imbalance
2) pH imbalance
3) vitamin/mineral imbalance
4) protective vs pathogenic bacterial imbalance
5) dehydration (also known as trans-epidermal water loss)
6) excess of a certain yeast called Malassezia
Though it was previously considered either untreatable or not worth treating by doctors, recent scientific advancements and a deeper understanding of skin have resulted in a protocol update by pediatric dermatologists.
Because 80% of people with a skin barrier disruption, like acne or dermatitis, are at risk of a bacterial infection, health professionals primary goal is to gently prevent unnecessary swelling and infection at acne lesion sites.
Skin changes like acne occur in 90% of pregnant women largely due to hormonal, vitamin and mineral imbalances. Pregnancy acne can be difficult to treat for many women because it is best to avoid harsh chemicals during pregnancy and breastfeeding. Soothing Serum is the perfect solution for both moms and babies.
BEB Organic Soothing Serum (formerly named Healing Gel) is an effective, extra-gentle and natural treatment for baby acne and pregnancy acne.
This specialized emulsion is not just safe, it's effectively formulated with proven organic ingredients to prevent skin problems and quickly heal bothered baby skin. It is also perfect for pregnant and breastfeeding women who want to banish skin issues while avoiding the use of harsh or harmful chemicals on the skin.
Our world-class team of chemists and botanists source raw plant materials from local farms where each ingredient is carefully grown, harvested and processed to maintain the absolute highest, most luxurious organic quality.
The finest rose distillate, rose hip and rose flower petal oils are combined with nutrient-rich organic ingredients such as arnica, yarrow and calendula.
This unique combo creates a robust vitamin-mineral concentrate that enhances the probiotic flora (healthy bacteria) on your baby’s skin.
If you haven’t heard the news about probiotics and how much we have, need or want them in our guts…they’re the latest and greatest in healthy digestion, and beyond.
But what’s got some scientists (including us!) excited is the direct link between the microbiome of our guts with our brain, immune system, and skin.
For the past few years, the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) has promoted probiotics as treatment for acne and rosacea. To help control these skin conditions, AAD suggests managing stress, eating a healthy diet, and increasing healthy gut bacteria (your microbiome).
Your gut microbiome communicates with your skin via the gut-skin axis, which directly influences your appearance…and your baby’s. Science discovered the gut-skin connection helps regulate:
Acne and rosacea are caused by a body’s immune system reacting to microbes on the skin. But AAD found that a dose of probiotics applied to the skin prevents the body from creating that reaction.
We want only good bacteria on baby skin, so to help preemies thrive BEB Organic skincare contains probiotics and nutrients that soothe skin, relieve stress, and increase gut health, from the outside in.
Keeping your preemie’s skin in a peaceful, non-reactive state means they have more energy to grow. Small wonder we love probiotics at BEB Organic!
The more comfort your preemie, or any baby feels, the better they grow.
With daily use, BEB Organic Soothing Serum (formerly named Healing Gel) helps to naturally prevent the onset and recurrence of baby acne by helping your baby’s skin adjust to an air environment:
Following the new evidence and treatment options, many MDs and RNs now recommend a healing protocol of applying gel twice a day to prevent baby acne and accelerate recovery for children who get it.
Our Soothing Serum is specially designed for sensitive newborn baby and pregnancy skin, and can be combined with any skincare routine.
Try our Mighty Fighter Set for full-on treatment against not only acne but rashes, scars, and germs. Use at least twice per day and even more frequently if desired.
Adults and teens using prescription strength acne-care products can use Soothing Serum nutrient-rich formula in combination with those more aggressive acne-care products to enhance the overall look and feel of acne-prone skin.
You can confidently use our pure-health skincare on any skin type, including very dry and very oily skin. Layer over any acne treatment for extra care and calming protection.
To treat and prevent irritating diaper rash, use BEB Organic Diaper Balm on baby’s clean diaper area after every change. Our Vital Touch Set gives you every one of our super-healing products in one convenient package.
No matter which BEB Organic products you use, you’re giving your baby and yourself the very best – in skincare, in health, and in environmental responsibility for the earth on which your little one will grow.
And I must add, whenever my own skin feels like it needs some extra gentle TLC, I use a double dose of Soothing Serum followed by a nice thick coat of Nurturing Oil at night to wake up to calm, happy skin.
If you are unhappy with any BEB Organic product, you may return it for a full refund within 120 days of purchase. We are so confident that you and your baby will be healthy and happy with BEB Organic, we’ll even pay for return shipping. Product may be opened, but mostly unused, to be eligible for return.
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