California Baby Calendula Cream

Reformulation on California Baby Calendula Cream Be Aware: In the old formulation, water and calendula were the first two ingredients -- the new formula Calendula is the 8TH INGREDIENT - water, caprylic capric triglyceride, cetyl alcohol, stearic acid, glycerin USP, cetearyl olivate and sorbitan olivate, canola oil and FINALLY Calendula! This formulation is much cheaper for the company and yet they still charge an avg. of $5 an ounce!! I'm pretty outraged -- if you use California Baby please let them know how you feel about this change in formulation and look to make sure the products YOU use haven't also been reformulated. ---- Please note that my son who has severe eczema used to have NO skin reaction to the old formula and now he has pain on application and redness in his skin for up to an hour after it's applied.

I also want to note that it wasn't until my son started reacting to it that I even compared the labels --- no notification of reformulation on the new...Read more

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...Read more

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...Read more