Earth Mama Angel Baby Angel Baby Bottom Balm, 2-Ounce Jars (Pack of 3)

Comment: We have used every type of cream, spray and salve available-but this is the only one that truly works! I LOVE it and can't recommend it enough! It is also multi-functional as it works for scrapes, scratches, chapped lips and soothes sore noses when you have a cold. We use this exclusively and plan to do so with baby #2 as well. I personally love the smell and consistency-so natural. Now that my daughter is older she actually asks for it specifically-as she calls it the "stuff" :) If we try to show her the other brands she says "No-STUFF!!" So this proves to me that it feels better for her as well!

Comment: My mom bought us a whole care package of Earth Mama Angel Baby products after our second child was born. She had done exhaustive research on the safety of a number of different baby products (you'd be surprised what's in most of it) and this was one of the very, very few to rate a zero hazard on the Environmental Working Group's Skin Deep Database. So, that's point one in its favor. Especially to a family like us with one child already suffering from serious 'atopic dermatitis' type skin issues.

So, for the actual product. It's an oily substance, with a strong herbal scent. Strong, but pleasant scent if you like hippie herbal scents. The ingredient list, while not hazardous, is quite long. And my only gripe there is that with that many ingredients, it's difficult to make a product truly hypoallergenic, because there's such a huge palette of possible agents to irritate unusually sensitive skin. That said, we were fortunate that it didn't work out that way for us with this one.

It's not a miracle cream, but when you have have raw, red, irritated skin, it does have the distinct advantage of not burning. Because there's no ingredient to mix the oil base to a creamy consistency, there are none of the often harmful agents that are known irritants to skin. The drawback of this is that the mixture can separate rather easily in very little time, forming small while beads throughout (these can be worked in and absorbed into the skin, but with less ease than the original mixture). It does not become rancid, and the shelf life extends beyond two years. I mention this because we found lotions and shampoos by this company begin to smell fermented quickly: think 2-6 months time.

As for the actual healing qualities of this mixture, I'd place them at slightly better than average. My kids have really, really, bad rashes and I'm a pretty harsh judge on products in this regard. I've found that the best maintenance product for eczema is California Baby's Calendula Cream, but we can't apply that when the kids have scratched themselves bloody (it has alcohol-based ingredients and stings), so this is our more-difficult-to-obtain fallback.

Final advice: I wouldn't pass this up by any means, but I wouldn't expect a miracle. It's a better-than-average moisturizer and has herbal ingredients that, for most, will be soothing to the skin. I would rate it as being one of the more effective products in the small pool of safer baby products. Ironically, I have no experience using it as a diaper cream, so cannot comment in that regard.

Comment: I've used this on my daughter since she was born and she's 6 months old. We cloth diaper and people told me that when you cloth diaper, your baby gets really bad diaper rash. My daughter has never had diaper rash. I love the smell and how it can be used for other things (scrapes, burns, bites, etc.). I buy this for all baby showers I go to. This is also the most inexpensive I have found it. The first 2 2-oz jars I paid $18.95 for each.

Comment: Overpriced, spreads horribly (chunky, could not spread it well) and greasy. I put it on my daughter's rash twice and it just got worse. Normal creams typically clear it up. I understand all children are different, but I have never had a cream be such a waste of my time and money. Nowhere on the container does it even mention to be used for diaper rashes, but Amazon and cosmetic database said it is used for this.

Comment: It is worth its weight in gold. Hands down the best diaper cream out there. We've had a few minor rashes which this cleared up overnight. Also one BAD MEAN rash (LO and tomatoes are not a good mix!) was cleared up in a couple of days. After the first day it was almost gone. We use this on scrapes and bites, too.