Washing Wool or Baby?

With the purchase of my red-edge prefolds from Green Mountain Diapers, I decided to try their wool wash soap for spot cleaning my wool covers.

I had read about this soap and liked that its natural ingredients included lanolin, coconut and soybean oils along with other gentle oils to make for a soft soap that wouldn't require relanolizing my covers for every spot wash.

The description on their website said it was also a favorite hand soap or even as baby soap for children with dry skin issues.

There are a total of three things I will use on my son if he gets any kind of rash (be it on the diaper area or else-where). First, if it is a particularly dry-looking rash and is going to go on just before bedtime, I will apply a generous amount of coconut oil. I've never woken him up to find the rash still persisting. My husband has also used coconut oil on persistant and painful rashes and found them to be greatly soothed and cleared quickly with its use. Second, if it's just a tiny spot of redness or dry skin during the day I will apply a dab of Weleda Baby Cream which contains lanolin. Third, if it's a bad rash I will use Weleda Diaper Care Cream which is basically the Weleda Baby Cream with Zinc Oxide in it.

Lanolin is very popular with nursing mothers to sooth sore nipples and it provides superb water-proofing to wool diaper covers.

Two of my favorite, rash-fighting, soothing, moisturizing ingredients, combined in one bar of soap? It seemed too good to be true.

I received my wool wash and waited for my wool to need it.

In the mean time I decided to try it for myself, on myself (because if you are a mother who changes diapers as much as I do it means you wash your hands as much as I do which means you have dry, flaky, cracked hands that you would try to repair with lotion if there was time so you just live with the dry, flaky hands).

I'll admit. It did leave my hands feeling silky smooth and a lot less dry with every wash. I have found my new post-diaper-change hand soap.

My husband, who has problems with his hands on a regular basis, tried it as well and experienced no burning.

Bath time rolled around and still no wool needed to be washed so I threw the bar into the bath and slathered up my babies' butt. I think we both appreciate how smooth and moist it left his tush at the end of his bath.

So, here we have a wool wash bar that has YET to be used to actually wash wool. I fully intend to use it for its designated purpose but I might just have to purchase another bar just for family use.