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When your expecting a baby or the mother to a newborn, you’ll receive all kinds of advice from other parents. Some of the advice you’ll receive will work for you and other’s will not. Every baby is different and so are parenting styles. My 30 …
If you’ve been reading this blog for the past few years you’ll already know that I’m a self-professed neat & clean freak. I’m the type of person who enjoys cleaning and when I can…I prefer to use natural cleaning products. Recently I was introduced to …
My daughter just had her second child a few months ago and immediately turned to me for advice regarding protecting her son’s sensitive skin. From day one, Jax has had issues with baby lotions, soaps, detergents, fabrications, etc. touching his skin. Within his first 3 weeks of life he had frequent breakouts of rashes & hives. He was miserable which made mom miserable too!
The very first thing I told her to do was to change her laundry detergent to Dreft. As an experienced mother, Dreft is the brand that I used with my daughter and the brand that I used with my grand daughter. Matter of fact, I have sensitive skin myself and will often use Dreft to do my own laundry when I have flare-ups. On top of that, I love how fresh & clean my own clothing smells after it’s been laundered with Dreft.
Once my daughter re-washed all of Jax’s clothing, crib linens and bath linens with Dreft, his skin sensitivities and allergies seemed to disappear overnight. I knew that he would have the same sensitive skin issues that tend to run in our family and that simple change made all of the difference.
Dreft is the #1 baby laundry detergent choice of pediatricians and is gentle on baby’s delicate & sensitive skin. It’s hypoallergenic and has been trusted by parents for over 80 years. It has been clinically tested to be safe and gentle, even with it’s “baby scent” that is beloved by millions of parents everywhere.
Why is it Hypoallergenic? Dreft’s formula contains a unique blend of mild cleaning ingredients as well as a special technology that removes the pills and fuzz off fabrics, making clothes gentle and soft to baby’s sensitive skin. Dreft’s formula also ensures that soils in the laundry rinse out with the wash water, instead of redepositing back onto baby clothes. As a parent/grandparent, that’s important to me.
The spring season brings a welcome change from the cold winter months. For parents and their babies, the warmer spring weather means spending more time outdoors, but that also brings increased exposure to allergens and the sun, all of which can be irritating to baby’s sensitive skin. Thanks to Dreft’s new partnership with Dr. Dyan Hes, here are 2 tips to ensure your baby is protected and comfortable during the spring months:
1. Protect Problem Skin: Heat is a common trigger for eczema and as the weather warms up, there are a few things you can do to help prevent flare ups of such skin irritations. The sun is strongest between the hours of 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. so try to shield baby from direct sun exposure during those times.
2. Make Bath-Time Beneficial: Over exposure to water can actually rob skin of natural moisture. Scaling back on tub time will help avoid resulting itch — about 10 minutes is plenty of time for water play and a quick scrub. Use warm water (vs. hot) and leave the suds to the very end. Use a mild cleanser to keep skin soft and itch-free. Gently pat skin dry and end with an after-bath moisturizer to seal in moisture and protect baby’s soft skin.
As parents and grandparents it’s our job to protect baby’s sensitive skin and one simple thing you can do is use Dreft when laundering baby’s clothing.
Twitter Party: Would you like to learn more about how you can protect baby’s sensitive skin? If so, I would like to invite you to RSVP for the upcoming Twitter party with @Dreft and Dr. Hes (@gramercypeds) on May 9th, 2016 at 9:00 PM EST/8:00 PM CST. Please RSVP HERE and check out the Twitter party prizes too! Hope to see you there!
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If you’ve been following this blog for any length of time, you’ll already know that I’m a clean and neat freak. As a woman, I take great pride in showing off my home to visitors when they pop in and I’m always complimented on how …
For the past 2 weeks I’ve been super busy getting my Spring cleaning done. Every year, I look forward to Spring so that I can clean things out and get things organized. After 4 weeks have passed, I love walking through my home and seeing …
We own an older home and like most older homes…our bedrooms have very small closets. To solve our closet and clothing storage problem, my husband refinished our attic and built each of us a closet up there to store our seasonal clothing.
Every spring and fall season…I take an afternoon to switch out my seasonal clothing and get things ready for a brand new season. While it can be a pain in the butt…it’s something that I have to do.
Once I’ve selected the afternoon to do this, I go out and buy one of my favorite laundry detergents called Persil ProClean. It’s a premium laundry detergent that does a great job at removing stains, foul odors, dirt, etc. and gets all of your clothing items smelling fresh & clean. One entire bottle is enough to do all of our seasonal clothing!
I then take everything out of my closet and lay it across my bed. I then head up to the closets in the attic and bring all of our seasonal items down. I then put all of the items laying on our bed into the closets in the attic. This process takes me about 30 minutes since I’m not really a clothes hoarder at all.
All of the items that I bring down from the attic closets go into my laundry room and I start the process of washing up all of our seasonal items. Even though they were clean when they went into storage, they don’t smell fresh & clean when I take them out. I spend the rest of my day (sometimes 2 days) washing and drying all of our seasonal clothing and putting them away. Now we are ready to start a brand new season!
Here are a few tips to help you with your seasonal clothing storage and switch out:
* Now is a good time to clean out any items you need to get rid of or any items you no longer intend on wearing. Donate what you can and trash what you can’t.
* Inspect every item closely for damage. If you have pilling, bad stains, rips & tears, missing buttons, etc. Now is the time to set those items aside. Discard the items that can’t be fixed and move onto the next tip.
* Find an hour in your immediate schedule when you can sit down to repair your damaged items. You know…replace missing buttons, fix up a hem or repair a tear. The sooner you get on those repairs…the sooner you’ll wear that item again!
* When putting your freshly cleaned items away, make sure you are doing it properly! Sweaters and heavy knits should never be hung in a closet and should always be folded and placed in a drawer or on a shelf. Hanging them will cause them to stretch out and lose their shape.
* If you want to save some space in your closet, I suggest switching over to those velvet-coated, thin hangers. I switched over to them 3 years ago and got back about 40% of my closet space! Ditch all of those nasty plastic hangers and wooden hangers that take up too much space!
* Before putting things back into your closet…take out the time to give it a really good cleaning! Wipe down your shelving and closet rods. If you have carpeting, give it a good vacuuming. Once done, I like to use some odor removing sprays in my closet (like Febreze) and then I put my items inside. I love a fresh smelling closet!
* Do not use stinky and foul smelling products in your closets like moth balls and cedar chips. I’ve found that those items can “stink up” my clothing and there were times that I couldn’t get those foul odors out. In my honest opinion, ditch those products and don’t use them!
Well, there you have it. Some of my favorite tips when it comes to switching out our seasonal clothing twice a year. Plus, don’t forget to pick up some Persil ProClean Laundry Detergent so you can get all of your clothing looking and smelling great again!
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