How to boil oil for a newborn?

It is impossible to provide full-fledged care for a newborn child and its proper development, if you do not have all the necessary funds in the arsenal. One of these is vegetable oil. Some mothers prefer to spend less time on cooking with their own hands and buy ready-made baby cosmetics, while others, on the contrary, tend to do everything personally and therefore, in the absence of preliminary experience, the question arises of how to boil oil for a newborn. This is the topic we will reveal in this article.

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Why do I need vegetable oil for a newborn?

If you are a happy mother of a second, third or fifth baby, then it is unlikely that you will have a question why you need vegetable oil for babies. But how to boil oil for newborns is quite likely, because the experience of raising each child is always slightly different from the previous one.

If you are not overjoyed by your first-born, information on the use of such a cosmetic product for your child will be helpful. So, oil for newborns is used to organize proper daily child care. Everything is simple here:

1. Initially, it is not always possible to guess correctly what to wear for the baby. As a result, it sweats and delicate skin is covered with sweating.
2. When the child begins to actively move its legs and arms, the skin rubs a lot, and if it's hot, it provokes accelerated damage, because the epidermis of the newborn is very thin.
3. Babies do not have the same body proportions as adults. Therefore, they form many folds in which, again, diaper rash, dermatitis and other unpleasant phenomena for both the baby and his parents can occur.
4. Many newborns have yellow crusts on their heads. They can go away on their own, but it’s better to speed up this process so that the hair can grow normally and the skin of the child does not itch.
   

In all these cases, vegetable oil is used, which lubricates the scales on the head, wrinkles on the elbows, near the palms, under the knees, near the feet, armpits, behind the ears, and also overdried skin if the baby was born born.

Important! Keep in mind that you can not completely and very abundantly coat your child with vegetable oil. And the point here is not that a naked child will slip out like a snake from your hands. Oil clogs the pores of the skin, and the saturation of the body with oxygen in infants is largely due to this cover.

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Which oil to choose?

In any children's store today you can buy suitable cosmetics so as not to boil oil for the newborn. As a rule, such care products undergo careful quality and safety control, which is the key to their hypoallergenicity. But you cannot be 100% sure of the composition of any such products. Therefore, if you are wary of modern chemistry and cosmetics, it is better to spend your time and boil oil for a newborn.

Important! Additional benefits of using sterilized natural vegetable oil:

• significant saving of money;

• absolute hypoallergenicity with the right choice of oil;

• there is no harmful effect on the baby's body of auxiliary perfumes and other chemical compounds.

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Which oil to choose?

Even people of ancient civilizations knew that each vegetable oil exerts its beneficial effect on the human body. For the baby, these types of this medicinal product can be used:

• olive - suitable for moisturizing and saturating the baby's skin with nutrients, gives a light antiseptic effect;
• sunflower - promotes regeneration and well restores overdried skin;
• apricot - an excellent tool for the treatment of dermatitis, relieve inflammation, cell regeneration;
• peach - moisturizes, nourishes, gives an anti-inflammatory effect in dermatitis;
• thuja is an antiseptic that is also used to heal wounds.

Which oil is best for the newborn - decide for yourself, based on what exactly worries your baby more and what effect you expect.

Useful Tips

If you decide not to boil the oil for the newborn yourself, but to buy baby cosmetics, be sure to pay attention to:

• composition - ideally, only oil should be indicated (one or a combination of several options), if there are additional substances, the mark “hypoallergenic”, “certified” must be present;
• fragrances, preservatives should be absent;
• the shelf life should not exceed 12 months.

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Should I boil butter?

To boil or not to boil oil for a newborn is everyone's personal business. But here it is necessary to consider the following factors:

• it is not worth placing the child initially in a completely sterile environment, and it still won’t work out, and after boiling the oil is sterilized;
• after heat treatment, the oils are only suitable for use for several hours, so it is not practical to cook it in large portions.

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How to boil butter?

The concept of boiling oil is not entirely true; here the sterilization method is applied in a water bath. If it strives for it to gurgle, boil or be too long under the influence of open fire, all the means can catch fire and cause you irreparable harm.

What is needed:

1. Large pan.
2. Glass jar.
3. The oil itself.
4. Cotton fabric.

Boil the oil:

1. Pour cold or warm tap water into the pan.
2. Put cotton on the bottom to prevent cracking of the can.
3. Put a jar of oil inside the pan with water.
4. Put the whole structure on the stove.
5. Bring the water to a boil and immediately reduce the heat.
6. Leave on the smallest fire a pan with a jar of oil for 10-30 minutes, avoiding boiling oil.
7. Remove the jar and allow it to cool.
8. Screw on the lid and put it in a dark, cool place.

Important! If you do not follow and the oil still boils, after which it burns, do not extinguish with your hands or water. Just cover the jar with a pan lid, blocking the access of oxygen inside. Burning will stop.

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We hope that from this article you have gathered a lot of useful information for yourself regarding the use of vegetable oil while caring for a baby. Do everything carefully, accurately for him, create comfortable living conditions and you will get many pleasant minutes of communication with the most dear and beloved person, you will discover a lot of new things with him, rejoice and enjoy every moment.