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Fine-ground oats. 1% in the cream.
What is colloidal oatmeal?
What is colloidal oatmeal, and why is it in a baby eczema cream?
Oats ground into a powder fine enough to stay mixed in water and cream. The FDA lists it as a skin protectant ingredient. The Body Cream has 1%, and it goes on right after the bath, while the skin is still damp.
Written by Courtney, founder and licensed esthetician. Facts sourced from FDA skin protectant rule (21 CFR 347.10) and the AAP. Your pediatrician leads.
- Oats, ground very fine
- A skin protectant ingredient, per the FDA
- 1% in the Body Cream
For a baby or child with eczema-prone skin, Cristina's Curls' Nourishing Baby Moisturizing Body Cream has 1% colloidal oatmeal and goes on right after a 5 to 10 minute lukewarm bath, while the skin is still damp.
Your kit
1 products, in order
- Cream Nourishing Baby Moisturizing Body Cream · $27
How much, how often
- About a quarter Body Cream for a baby's body, on damp skin
What is it, and how do I use it?
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Step 1 of 3 · The ingredient
What it is.
Oats ground into a powder fine enough to stay mixed in water and cream. The FDA lists it as a skin protectant ingredient.
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Step 2 of 3 · In the Body Cream
How much.
1% colloidal oatmeal, the first ingredient on the Body Cream's label.
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Step 3 of 3 · After every bath
How to use it.
A 5 to 10 minute lukewarm bath, pat dry, then the cream on while the skin is still damp. The whole body.
See the eczema routine
Nourishing Baby Moisturizing Body Cream Right after the bath, while the skin is still damp. The whole body. About a quarter
Drug Facts. Uses: Temporarily protects and helps relieve minor skin irritation and itching due to eczema and rashes.
Why we chose it. 1% colloidal oatmeal, made for sensitive skin.
Best for Babies, after the bath.
When should I call the pediatrician?
Crusting, oozing, blisters or not getting better? Call your pediatrician.
When to call
Yellow or honey-colored crusting, weeping or oozing skin, blisters or pus bumps, or a rash that isn't getting better with the usual care: call your pediatrician.
Which product has it?
- Cream Nourishing Baby Moisturizing Body Cream · $27
Hair and skin care, not medicine. Your pediatrician leads.
What else do parents ask about colloidal oatmeal?
Is colloidal oatmeal the same as the oatmeal I cook?
No. It's ground much finer, into a powder that stays mixed in water and cream instead of settling.
What's in the Body Cream?
Colloidal oatmeal 1% is the active ingredient. The full list, from the label: Colloidal Oatmeal (1 percent), Beeswax, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Cetyl Alcohol, Cucumis Sativus (Cucumber) Fruit Extract, Glycerin, Hydrogenated Jojoba Oil, Lonicera Caprifolium (Honeysuckle) Flower Extract, Lonicera Japonica (Honeysuckle) Flower Extract, Mangifera Indica (Mango) Fruit Extract, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Fruit Extract, Propanediol, Saccharomyces Ferment Filtrate, Stearic Acid, Stearyl Alcohol, Water/Aqua.
Is colloidal oatmeal in the Bath Soak?
No. The Bath Soak is baking soda, aloe, allantoin, provitamin B5, zinc oxide, and chamomile and lavender oils. The colloidal oatmeal is in the Body Cream.
When do I put the cream on?
Right after the bath, while the skin is still damp. The AAP recommends moisturizing the whole body every day, even when the skin looks clear.
Good to know
Colloidal oatmeal is a skin protectant ingredient.
It's on the FDA's list of skin protectant ingredients for over-the-counter products.FDA
Moisturizer goes on right after the bath.
While the skin is still damp, the whole body, every day, per the AAP. See the eczema routineAAP
Sources: FDA skin protectant rule (21 CFR 347.10), AAP (HealthyChildren.org).
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Your pediatrician leads. Under six months, or anything red, spreading, weeping or painful: call them before you try anything here.