Baby Oil Mysteries
75.© Patty Inglish, MS/Preventive Medicine.All rights reserved.
What is the Hidden Answer?
This is a trick question, isn't it? :)
QUESTION:
If corn oil is made from corn and vegetable oil from vegetables, what is baby oil made of?
ANSWER:
No, baby oil is not made from babies, but here are the ingredients of a few brands listed below.
I remember when baby oil that was available at the supermarket was 100% mineral oil, packaged differently and sold at a slightly higher cost. People sometimes bought plain mineral oil from the pharmacy or used petroleum jelly instead. Then, with industrial progress, other ingredients began to be added to the baby oils
Now, back on the farm, people sometimes used herbal remedies for diaper rash and dry skin. If nothing else was available, they even used lard.
In some countries, whale oil is used.
That reminds me that honey and sugar were used on the farm to heal wounds. Honey is hydroscopic, meaning it attracts water or moisture and helps to seal a wouind. Many honeys are 80% sugar and 20% water. Honey is also antiseptic, killing bacteria. This leads me to think that honey was probably used at times to treat diaper rash.
All this reminds me to say that putting butter on a burn does no good at all and may do harm. For a burn, put ice on it or it will burn all the way to the bone. Then maybe honey could help it heal, but ask your doctor!
- How to Heal a Wound with Honey
American medicine has been considering using honey more frequently in the treatment of wounds. However, New Zealand already has used certain types of honey as a traditional treatment for some time. It is now even possible to use these honey varieties
Soft and Silk Baby Oil
Ingredients: Mineral Oil, Aloe Vera Extract, Vitamin E, Acetate, Fragrance.
Johnson's Baby Oil, Lavender scent
Ingredients: Mineral Oil, Fragrance
Burt's Bee Baby Bee Oil
Ingredients: prunus armeniaca (apricot) kernel oil, vitis vinifera (grape) seed oil, tritium vulgare (wheat) germ oil, tocopheryl acetate, fragrance, tocopherol, rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary) leaf extract, glycine soja (soybean) oil, canola oil
Buddha Baby Oil
Ingredients Prunus amygadulas dulcis (sweet almond) oil and Lavendula augustofolia (lavender) oil.
Baby Moon Oil
Ingredients: Lavender, tangerine and "other" essential oils, in sweet almond and olive oils.
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Apricot kernel oil, avocado oil, organic jojoba oil, vitamin E oil, lavender oil, mandarin orange oil..
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That makes me happy about so many fans, too, Z!
If whalers didn't catch too many and then waste them, or catch them and lie and say they dondn't, it would not be so tragic. The Native Americans used Bear Fat, you know. :)
Fascinating as usual, Patty. I really enjoyed it. And I really love the visuals.
Thank you Rapidwriter. This Hub was fun to do.
Patty I always love the pictures in your hub.This is great information.Is whale oil same as cod liver oil which sounds good for health when taken orally?
nice hub
Hii Abhinaya, the oil from each animal or plant lifeform is a bit different. I have never seen whale oil up close. Cod liver oil is a lighter oil than some marine mammals' and fish oils, though. And a cod is a fish, smaller than a whale. The whale fat must be called blubber because it is so thick. I actually do not know if the whale oil is different from the melted blubber. It might be.
Maham - thank you for visiting.
Next time i oil myself down with baby oil i will be thinking of you Patty;)
O boy, what fun! :) :) heehee
Any bottle that says mineral oil is just crude oil (black gue). What you gas up with, is what you put on your skin. You think it's sad for the whale, Sqalene is squeezed out of a shark's liver, and they are also an endangered species. It is used in a lot of skin care products manufactured by Unilever. However, they have announced they will discontinue this practice, but it's not regulated by the FDC.
Indeed true. I don't use anything containing shark or whale squeezings, or ambergris or other wasteful products. In fact, I don't use any manufactured beauty products at all.
How many people look up this basic information? Not many. So, Americans slather petroleum on their babies with Johnson and Johnson's or the store brands and wonders at their health problems later on...
I never knew any of this.
can it be a papaya oil?
its my experement for our research....
can it be???????
Papaya oil is especially good as a hair conditioner, in my opinion.
This really did start off as a bit of a silly question that I thought would be a bit of fun, but what a rich vein of knowledge it has opened up!! Thanks Patty and the rest....
I use Papaya cream instead of chemicals as a deodorant.
Thanks Caryl! This was fun and informative at the same time, The best things always are imo. :) I'll try the Papaya cream in summer for dry skin. Sounds like it has a nice smell too.
patty what do you think can be used as a substitute for whales? doing a school project and very interested to know what will be good to use, i love oil but i love whales more.
Good question, lisa! I suggest examining all sorts of vegetable oils and find a substitute from one of those or a combination.
good!
mineral oil means what.....is it kerosene its base
Mineral oil is produced from mineral sources and sometimes this includes petroleum. Kerosene can also come from petroleum. Both mineral oil and kerosene can be distilled from petroleum.
Hi! Thanks for the information. I notice you dont mention olive oil (or i didnt see it metnioned at least). Do you know if any of the common cooking oils we all have at home are good for skin protection as well?
Olive oil would be my first choice, but for chapped hands in winter and no time or way to go out in the snow, any cooking oil can help a little.
Just don't use oils to treat burns - no oils, no butter, no margarine; they do not work and can make infections happen faster. 1st degree burns need reduction in heat immediately with cool water and/or ice or ice cubes in a water bath. 2nd and 3rd degree burns need medical attention.
Zsuzsy Bee Level 3 Commenter 4 years ago
Whale oil ??? I never knew that. How sad that our magnificent giants have die because a diaper rash...Super info Patty. Awesome picture of the whale...congrats on 302 fans
great hub regards Zsuzsy