Thursday, 2 November 2017

The Process Of Making Organic And Natural Baby Powder At Home

By Sharon Thompson


Ideally, most people buy products from the shop and remain uncertain of the ingredients used to make them. However, much of these products can be made by oneself at home with lots of certainty on the ingredients used. You can make your own baby powder through such a process. Given the needed ingredients, you can always have your organic and natural baby powder made from home. As such, expenses in buying expensive and chemical-filled products is evaded.

There are many chemicals that are put in manufactured body products which can be harmful. The process of the production of this product at home is simple and affordable. The formula can also be adjusted to fit your required needs. The organics and natural products used are chosen by the individuals and therefore additional of chemicals are kept to a minimum.

Having your naturally made baby powder can effectively help in addressing issues such as rashes that develop when kids use diapers. Nevertheless, you should always test the ingredient used to see which will react with the skin and use only a little portion or none of it. Apart from use on kids, such a homemade product can as well be used by adults. For instance, you can use it for freshening shoes.

Most of the times, feet produce an unpleasant stench that makes people uncomfortable. This product can be used as an antibacterial to avoid such a situation. Other situations where it is used is in freshening the bedding, the carpet and also minimizing pain after being waxed.

There are various ingredients that can be utilized in making baby powder. These are such as arrowroot flour or powdered arrowroot. Arrowroot flour can be obtained in various regions around the world. The flour remains very good at moisture absorbing and is usually slippery and smooth. Another usable ingredient is the bentonite clay usually got from volcanic ash. The clay exists in as three compounds including Potassium Bentonite, Sodium Bentonite, and Calcium Bentonite. It possessed excellent moisture absorbing properties and has the capabilities of removing impurities.

Another ingredient is dried calendula flowers. This usually encourages the healing of the skin from wounds. It also possesses properties such as antimicrobial, astringent, anti-inflammatory, antifungal, immunostimulant, and antiviral properties. It is, therefore, useful in treating and disinfecting minor wounds, scrapes, burns, conjunctivitis, cuts, bruises, and foot acne among other skin-related conditions. Dried chamomile flowers are also a good ingredient for their anti-inflammatory and healing properties. They also have a soothing effect.

You can also add dried lavender flowers. These have a nice smell and are good at healing burns. Another ingredient is essential oils. You can use some drops of lavender and calendula oils to boost the scent and healing properties of your powdered product. Other beneficial oils like the rose oil may as well be incorporated.

These ingredients especially those that occur as whole solids is first milled using food mixers or blenders and sieved to obtain fine particles used as the ingredient. All these are placed in a mixing bowl and mixed to give a final product. After obtaining the final organic and natural powder, it is stored in any type of container for various uses at home.




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