Product Description

Age: Newborn and older. Scent: Our special CalmingTM aromatherapy blend that includes French lavender. Product description: Nature's First-Aid! California Baby® Calendula Cream is excellent for use on general diaper area, cradle cap, on cuts and scrapes, and may be used on face and body for extra-dry or sensitive skin. Botanically based, our light and fluffy Calendula Cream contains the active ingredient of Calendula, which has been used to heal the skin for centuries. California Baby® Calendula Cream offers deep hydration, absorbs completely, and leaves skin feeling satiny smooth. Use daily for everyday protection and especially when the air is dry and baby's skin needs relief. Our customers have reported excellent results with California Baby®'s Calendula Cream in their fight against eczema, perioral dermatitis, and other skin sensitivities. The entire family can benefit from this soothing, multipurpose cream. We suggest that you try California Baby® Calendula Cream and/or California Baby® Botanical Moisturizing Cream in combination with any of our Shampoos & Bodywashes. Also add California Baby® 'Soothing & Healing' Spray, and any of our non-chemical sunscreens to your skin care regime. A note from Jessica, developer of California Baby®: For grownups: Moms & Dads - Calendula Cream is a great facial cream for you too! Calendula Cream is highly recommended for eczema, perioral dermatitis, and other skin sensitives. Non-comedogenic.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8897 in Health and Beauty
• Size: 2 oz
• Brand: California Baby
• Model: 509-2
• Ingredients: Active Ingredients: Calendula Officinalis; Inactive Ingredients: Water (Purified), Aloe Vera, Vegetable Glycerin, Capric/Caprylic Triglycerides (coconut source), Vitamin E, Xanthan Gum, Cetyl Alcohol (emollent, coconut source), Our Proprietary Essential Oil Blend, Our Broad Spectrum Protection Preservative System (Anti-Bacterial Essential Oils, Vitamin A, C & E, A Small Amount of Food Grade Methylparaben/Antimicrobial)
• Dimensions: 2.00" h x 3.00" w x 3.00" l, .10 pounds

Features

• 2 oz cream
• Country of origin: USA
• Please read all label information on delivery.

Customer Reviews

MIRACLE cream for my young baby's eczema!
I am a first time parent and was concerned when my 3 week old developed some small red spots and splotches near her eyes. The doctor said it was eczema and to use any lotion to moisturize and it should go away. To my horror, it spread RAPIDLY over the next 2 days to her neck, scalp, and covered her entire face and forehead. My little girl was rubbing her face and it was irritated and itchy. It was so terribly dry that around her eyes and eyelids it was thick and crusty and I feared she may have a different infection inside her lids.

At this time I looked online to see what would work. There were so many options to try Disney baby cream, Aveeno, Mustela, but I decided to try the California Baby Calendula cream because I received a small sample tube in shower gift set. I had read reviews that it worked immediately so I began applying the cream at every feeding (every 2-3 hours). It has a spa-like smell, that smell that salons and spas have when you get a massage or facial. After about 7 hours I noticed that the skin was smoother and a little softer--maybe a 20% improvement...not exactly the miracle I was hoping for but better than nothing. So I ran out and bought 3 containers and a humidifier since it's dry in our house. That night I put the cream on her face and ran the humidifier and in the morning her skin looked dramatically better---70%! That was on Friday. By Sunday it was completely cleared up and her beautiful skin was back to normal! I put it on every day now since I've learned she has sensitive skin and I use California Baby's shampoo/wash too since I read the Johnsons head to toe body wash I was using has an ingredient--quaternium 15?--that futher irritates rashes and eczema. I don't even leave the house without this cream for my baby!!!

Nice stuff for Rich Hippies
After 2 months, my otherwise beautiful baby girl was still having flare-ups of mild cradle cap and facial rashes. I'd tried nearly everything -- shea butter, hydrocortisone cream, even the harsh and nasty-smelling Selsen Blue (recommended by our pediatrician). None of them worked. Then I noticed this stuff by the changing table at my mother's house. After teasing her for being able to afford such "rich hippie" luxuries, I used it on my baby. This is a smooth, cool-feeling cream, thick and rich but not greasy or pasty. I also liked the light fragrance very much, sort of citrusy and tea-like. So many baby creams smell too strong for me but a light, natural-based fragrance is lovely. I massaged it into her scalp, face, under her neck (where there is usually some red irritation from saliva and milk) her arms and legs, which tend to get dry. The next day I noticed the rash on her face had cleared, her scalp wasn't flaky, the creases in her neck weren't red, and her skin was much softer. So I repeated the massage after her bath. Days later, her skin is pink and perfect! Sure, the stuff is expensive and the name is truly obnoxious -- but it's very nice indeed! Highly recommended in spite of the exorbitant price.

Miracle Cream? No, Reasonable Alternative? Yes
Both our children have eczema, and have since they hit about the 15 month mark. They have it during the summer months and the winter months. They get it from sweat when they're wearing formaldehyde-drenched Chinese-made clothing and when they're wearing Oeko-Tex certified organic clothing from Peru. They might be allergic to foods (the possible allergen list is a mile long, and it's not like the doctors could possibly test for everything; elimination diets have been futile). They're certainly allergic to that big hickory tree over their play equipment. Cats, dogs, mold, dust, you name it.

So, when all else fails, and you can't weed out the source, you want something to make the symptoms go away. In the case of eczema, you can either suppress the immune reaction (topical steroids) or combat the resulting itch and moisturize and heal the inflamed, damaged skin. California Baby Calendula Cream performs the tricky combination of controlling the itch long enough to heal the skin. It works reasonably well the majority of the time.

Calendula (or pot marigold) extract has been proven to have anti-inflammatory properties, among others, in plant pharmacological studies and is used topically to reduce inflammation and soothe irritated tissue for centuries. Of course if your child is allergic to plants in the marigold family, calendula would (obviously) have the opposite effect.

I wouldn't be surprised if this has chamomile in it as well, though the label doesn't disclose the contents of the 'proprietary oil blend'. It does have a pleasant tea-like smell to it, and chamomile has been noted to have similar soothing effects.

The rest of the ingredients are dedicated to moisturizing the skin. Because of the density of this cream, it stays on the skin, and because the first ingredient is purified water, it is quickly absorbed. It leaves skin feeling incredibly smooth, but not at all greasy.

The big drawback here is that if your child has severe eczema, you might have to apply this 3 or 4 times a day to the most affected areas. Our children do have severe eczema, and this can keep it at bay if I remember to apply it frequently. Of course I don't always remember. Then there's the cost of applying this cream multiple times per day to two children. We go through one jar per week easily.

So, why not use another moisturizer? Well, in our case, almost all moisturizers we've tried (Aveeno, Nature's Gate, Cetaphil, Eucerin, and others I can't recall now) actually irritate the kids' skin even more, whereas this and the Sensitive Skin California Baby lotion do not. Vaseline works as a barrier cream, but it ruins clothing (mine and theirs) and isn't easily absorbed by the skin.

So, we keep trying other things occasionally, and keep coming back to California Baby. While it is not a miracle cream, it is a heck of a lot better than the other stuff that's out there. (It should be at that price.) It works pretty well most times, sometimes clearing their eczema entirely for brief periods. Another reason to like it is that it rates fairly low on hazardous ingredients according to the Environmental Working Group's Skin Deep Database. All the other mainstream lotions we've tried were considered to be moderately hazardous, and when you read a bit more into this stuff, they just don't seem like good things to be applying to a baby or young child's skin. Most common lotions have ingredients that are actually considered to be irritants, which may explain the children's reaction to other moisturizers.

If your child has eczema, and you're at your wit's end trying to find something, anything that will improve their quality of life, it can't possibly hurt to give this stuff a shot. Pricey as it is, there are so many days I'd give anything just to not have to watch my children irritably tearing at their own skin. This calendula cream has definitely been a source of relief for them - and thus, for our whole family.