Parents can easily make natural lotions, bath oils, creams, powders, and shampoos.

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Product Description

Using easy-to-follow instructions, parents can make natural lotions, bath oils, creams, powders, and shampoos that will ensure glowing health and enhance the bond between parent and child. Includes information on self-care during pregnancy, infant massage, and gift ideas.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #234654 in Books
• Published on: 1997-01-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Review
"I believe Colleen would do better at healing my children and grandchildren than most of my HMO physicians have done." -- James A. Duke, USDA Scientist, Author of The Green Pharmacy

From the Back Cover
Get you baby and yourself off to a great beginning -- naturally. Herbalist Colleen K. Dodt offers her experienced advice on the safest and gentlest products and practices for ensuring good health for your baby and enhancing the mother-child bond. Natural BabyCare includes easy-to-follow instructions on how to select or create pure and safe herbal creams, baths, shampoos, and oils that will promote the health and well-being of both mother and child.

Special features on baby care include:
* Relaxation methods for pregnancy and childbirth
* Aromatic recipes for using herbs and essential oils
* Safe and simple homeopathic remedies
* A guide to resources for natural baby care

About the Author
An herbalist for over 15 years, Colleen K. Dodt has written two Storey titles, The Essential Oils Book and Natural BabyCare, of which USDA Scientist James A. Duke, author of The Green Pharmacy said of the book: "I believe Colleen would do better at healing my children and grandchildren than most of my HMO physicians have done. As always, Colleen writes engagingly and earnestly."

Colleen is the owner of Herbal Endeavors, Ltd., in Rochester Hills, Michigan, a business she began years ago at her home so that she could raise her young daughter, Christina, full time. Since then, her business and products have been featured in Herb Companion magazine, and she has written numerous articles on herbs and aromatherapy as well. Colleen is the first American and the first woman to write for The International Journal of Aromatherapy (February 1988), a British trade publication edited by Robert Tisserand, one of Britain's foremost experts on herbs and essential oils.

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Customer Reviews

Great book for first time parents.
This is the perfect book for someone who is interested in caring for they their child in the most natural ways possible. It contains clear and easy to understand explanations on herbs, essential oils, and aromatherapy. It also is full of great recipes and advice to help you get started. This book is full of great resources, too. It's a must for people interested in this subject but unsure as to where to begin.

More about aromatherapy than actual baby care
While I enjoyed reading this book, I found it was more focused on taking care of yourself as a new mother than it was about caring for your baby. This is so important, of course! A tired, weary mother can't offer the same to her new baby as a well rested and relaxed mother can. I just expected something else from this book, since the title made me think there would be a lot more recipes and techniques for taking care of BABY naturally. You'd probably enjoy it if you're looking for a book about aromatherapy for babies and moms. I'm not sure what I think about using essential oils on babies or young children, as was suggested in this book (even though the author suggests to use caution and not to use them on a baby less than 3 months old). I've used these oils in baths before and they don't mix in with the water. If you're not careful, they'll float right over and burn your skin. I haven't tried mixing them with a base oil first, as the author suggests, so maybe that solves the problem? I learned a few things from this book and I found it easy to read, but I'm giving it only 3 stars because I was disappointed that it was more about mom and aromatherapy than caring for baby.

Awesome!
This book is full of great tips, I really enjoyed reading it. If you are pregnant, don't wait to have your baby, before buying this book, there are a bunch of tips about pregnancy in it.