Do You Really Need Baby Shampoo?

This excerpt is from Wendyl’s book Recipes For A Cleaner Life, it discusses how important it is to keep toxins in shampoo away from your baby.

Babies don’t need to have their hair shampooed, and many of the baby shampoos available on the supermarket shelves have ingredients such as artificial colourings and fragrances that I wouldn’t put near me, let alone a baby.

I took a look at the ingredients list of Johnson’s Baby Shampoo. This has the phrase “as gentle to eyes as pure water” on the packaging, which I find stretches belief.

It does have the addition of colours Yellow 10 and Yellow 6, which are both controversial dyes when used in food. Yellow 10 or Quinoline yellow has been linked to hyperactivity in children and Yellow 6 or Sunset Yellow is also thought to trigger behaviour problems in youngsters.

The US Centre for Science in the Public Interest is calling for a ban on using it in food, and both yellows were phased out of food in England after UK government ministers agreed with research which found a link with hyperactivity in children.

It is unlikely your baby will eat this shampoo, but as we know our skin absorbs up to 80 percent of everything which touches it when wet, which this product most definitely would be when dissolved into bath water and rubbed on baby’s scalp.

Instead there are many other things you can use to keep baby’s hair clean.

Here are some suggestions:

Just wash it in the water to which you have added my baby bath wash, you can find that recipe here.

Use a drop of Green Goddess Hemp & Coconut Unscented Castile soap.

Dr Bronner’s has an unscented Baby Mild Castile bar soap that is specifically for babies. You can buy one here.