Cradle Cap

olive oil or baby oil,...stick it on, rub it in a bit, then leave it for a few hrs in the afternoon. Wash it off at bath time, then comb their hair gently and it should come out!

Baby massage oil will do just fine - or olive oil or baby oil or even baby lotion if they don't have hair yet. When Elizabeth had a bit I'd massage a few drops of oil on in the morning, wash her hair in the afternoon, and give it a good brisk rub dry with the towel - she didn't have enough hair to comb!

Ok this is Scully's Baby massage oil with Almond & Apricot Oil and essential oil of Chamomile.

He has hair but it's receding fast so it's not a problem putting it on.

I don't actually have any other types of oil here as I don't use oil in cooking.

Also just a side note about how often you bath baby, there seemed to be a correlation in our CG about how often babies had baths as to if they got cradle cap - ie babies that had a bath each night were far more likely to get it than say my little one who only ever had a bath once a week up to 12 weeks and then twice a week since then and has never ever had CC. In addition to that what bath products do you use? They dont really need anything when they are really little and not getting proper dirty, I did use a tiny bit of a sensitive baby all over wash (anecdotally J&J products were the worst for babies reacting) but as I said it was just once a week.

Sorry if I'm teaching you how to suck eggs but one last thing that may help someone else reading this because CC is a dermatological condition dont pick at it cos that will make it worse.

Yeah Cooper only gets bathed when it's warm or if he does a explosion that can only be cleaned by a bath. ie probably once a week as well.

It might be more to do with hierditary skin issues rather than bathing.

I'm using Huggies bath wash that I got given. I'd rather use a sensitive wash but haven't got around to getting one yet.

Hahaha Nikki! I massage him after a bath so might just put some on his head then.

In the Bounty book it says to gently brush babies hair/head everyday to stimulate the scalp. This what I did and the cradle cap was gone within a week or 2, and now her hair is growing really fast, but we went through a stage of looking like Friar Tuck from Robin Hood. Plus they say dont wash babies hair to often.

We had it in the eyebrows as well and I just used a muslin cloth to gently wipe them towards the nose a few times and then back the other way this seemed to get rid of it

We had it in the eyebrows as well and I just used a muslin cloth to gently wipe them towards the nose a few times and then back the other way this seemed to get rid of it[/QUOTE]

I was told that if the cradle cap goes into the eyebrows or down around the ears it is actually a form of excema.
Issy had it in her eyebrows and naughtily I picked it out and it hasn't come back, don't think it was excema like I was told. The rest is over her fontanelle and I do very little about it as I feel to scared to touch her there. DH is convinced that by rubbing it very gently with a muslin clothe in the bath he is getting rid of it. He was so proud of his good work I didn't have the heart to point out that it had spread a little bit!