Top 10 Baby Toiletries

Chemicals to Avoid in Baby Toiletry and Hygiene Care ProductsWorried about the harmful side effects of chemicals in your baby’s toiletry products? If your baby suffers from eczema, skin allergies or skin rashes then water is simply the safest and kindest option.

Yet, toiletries and personal care products are a popular ‘new baby gift’ choice. How can you be sure your baby’s bath time products exclude potentially harmful chemicals and skin irritants?

The Mindful Mum Top 10 Baby Toiletries generated from the Safe Toiletries Guide helps prevent you from unintentionally washing your baby in a soup of harmful chemicals at bath time.

The baby toiletries listed below are free from harmful chemicals; Sodium Lauryl / Laureth Sulfate (SLS), Parabens and Phthalates. The Skin Deep Cosmetic Safety Database* hazardous rating has been included where manufacturers have submitted ingredients to be assessed for safety by the Environmental Working Group.

Purbabies-Baby-WashOrganic Chamomile Baby Wash by PURbabies

  • Organic Certified: Yes – Soil Association (UK5)
  • Safe Cosmetics Compact Signed Member: Yes
  • Chemical Hazard Score: 2 (low)
  • Made in UK
  • From £5.75 for 200 ml

Green Baby Cradle Cap Oil Green-Baby Main Ingredients: Organic (safflower oil, sesame oil, jojoba oil) and wheatgerm oilGentle Scalp Oil Suitable for Cradle Cap by Green Baby

  • Organic Certified: No
  • Safe Cosmetics Compact Signed Member: No
  • Chemical Hazard Score: No Data
  • Made in UK
  • From £5.99 for 30 ml

Neal's Yard Baby Shampoo Main Ingredients: Water, lauryl glucoside, cocamidopropyl betaine, glycerin, propolis extract, hydrolysed oat protein, levulinic acid, organic chamomile extract, organic lavender extract, organic lavender oil, alcohol denatBaby Bath Shampoo by Neal’s Yard

  • Organic Certified:
  • Safe Cosmetics Compact Signed Member: No
  • Chemical Hazard Score: No Data
  • Made in UK
  • From £6.80 for 100 ml

Weleda Baby Oil Main Ingredients: Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil, Calendula Officinalis Flower Extract, Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract, Fragrance (Parfum)*, Limonene*, Linalool*, Geraniol*. * from natural essential oilsCalendula Baby Oil by Weleda Baby

  • Organic Certified: No
  • Chemical Hazard Score: 0 (low)
  • Safe Cosmetics Compact Signed Member: Yes
  • From £6.95 for 100 ml

Organic Chest Rub by Green Baby

  • Organic Certified: Yes – Soil Association (UK5)
  • Safe Cosmetics Compact Signed Member: No
  • Chemical Hazard Score: No Data
  • Made in UK
  • From £6.99 for 50 g

Nourishing Baby Lotion by Avalon Organics Baby Avalon

  • Organic Certified: Yes – US Organic Crop Improvement Association (OCIA)
  • Safe Cosmetics Compact Signed Member: Yes
  • Chemical Hazard Score: 2 (low)
  • Made in USA
  • From £6.99 for 175 ml


Calming Shampoo & Body Wash by California Baby

  • Organic Certified: No (Member of Organic Trade Association)
  • Safe Cosmetics Compact Signed Member: Yes
  • Chemical Hazard Score: 1 (low)
  • Made in USA
  • From £10.50 for 255 ml

California Baby Sunscreen - Main Ingredients: Active Ingredient: Titanium Dioxide Other Ingredients: aqua (water), lysine cocoate (coconut fatty acid), cyclomethicone (water repellant/ silicone), vegetable glycerin (coconut), dipolyhydroxystearate (coconut), candelilla cera (candelilla wax), tocopherol (vit.e), *cocos nucifera oil (coconut), *squalane (olive oil), * magnesium sulfate (epsom salts), panthenol and allatoin (vit b.complex factor), magnesium stearate, polyaminopropyl biguanideNo Fragrance SPF 30+ Sunscreen Lotion by California Baby

  • Organic Certified: No ( Member of Organic Trade Association)
  • Safe Cosmetics Compact Signed Member: Yes
  • Chemical Hazard Score: 1 (low)
  • Made in USA
  • From £18.75 for 86 ml

miessence baby gel main ingredients - organic aloe barbadensis (aloe vera) leaf juice, aqua (purified water), organic helianthus annuus (sunflower) seed oil, yucca schidigera extract, sclerotium rolfsii gum, citrus aurantium amara (bitter orange) fruit extract, organic althea officinalis (marshmallow) root extract, organic matricaria recutita (chamomile) flower extract, organic calendula officinalis (marigold) flower extract, organic vanilla planifolia CO2 extractBaby Bottom Cleansing Gel by miEssence

  • Organic Certified: Australian Certified Organic (ACO)
  • Safe Cosmetics Compact Signed Member: Yes
  • Chemical Hazard Score: 0 (low)
  • Made in Australia
  • From £21.47 for 150 ml

Weleda Children's Tooth Gel - Main Ingredients Glycerin, Water (Aqua), Silica, Algin, Calendula Officinalis, Foeniculum Vulgare (Fennel), Menta Viridis (Spearmint), Esculin, LimonenChildren’s Tooth Gel by Weleda Baby

  • Organic Certified: No
  • Chemical Hazard Score: 1 (low)
  • Safe Cosmetics Compact Signed Member: Yes
  • From £2.50 for 50 ml

*The Environmental Working Group maintains the Skin Deep Cosmetic Safety Database. The Baby Care section covers products from nappy creams to sunscreen. Each ingredient and product is given a toxicity score to help you find the safest possible toiletries for your baby.

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Comments for 'Top 10 Baby Toiletries'

  • Danni

    What is this hazardous rating and who are the cosmetic data base?

    • http://www.mindfulmum.co.uk/ Mindful Mum

      The Cosmetic Safety Database by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) provides chemical analysis of 1000′s of ingredients within cosmetic and hygiene products. EWG’s scientists built Skin Deep in 2004 providing personal care product ingredient listings with more than 50 toxicity and regulatory databases. Skin Deep is the world’s largest and most popular product safety guide.

      The hazardous rating or score is a culmination of suspected hazards from more than 50 definitive databases. “The hazard rating of a product can be higher than for its individual ingredients — it adds up the hazards of all ingredients, and is scaled higher if the product has penetration enhancers or other ingredients that increase skin absorption. This score is similar to the rating previously shown in Skin Deep, but now accounts for more safety references and we show it on a 0-10 scale (with no decimals, 10 corresponding to highest concern).” http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/faq.php#1

      For example Johnson & Johnson Moisture Care Gift Set has a hazard score of 9 out of 10. This is a high hazard score due to a number of specific ingredients in the product such as methylparaben, fragrance and benzalkonium chloride. These chemicals are know to cause skin irritations.

  • Danni

    What is this hazardous rating and who are the cosmetic data base?

    • http://www.mindfulmum.co.uk/ Mindful Mum

      The Cosmetic Safety Database by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) provides chemical analysis of 1000′s of ingredients within cosmetic and hygiene products. EWG’s scientists built Skin Deep in 2004 providing personal care product ingredient listings with more than 50 toxicity and regulatory databases. Skin Deep is the world’s largest and most popular product safety guide.

      The hazardous rating or score is a culmination of suspected hazards from more than 50 definitive databases. “The hazard rating of a product can be higher than for its individual ingredients — it adds up the hazards of all ingredients, and is scaled higher if the product has penetration enhancers or other ingredients that increase skin absorption. This score is similar to the rating previously shown in Skin Deep, but now accounts for more safety references and we show it on a 0-10 scale (with no decimals, 10 corresponding to highest concern).” http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/faq.php#1

      For example Johnson & Johnson Moisture Care Gift Set has a hazard score of 9 out of 10. This is a high hazard score due to a number of specific ingredients in the product such as methylparaben, fragrance and benzalkonium chloride. These chemicals are know to cause skin irritations.

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