breast milk baby lotion

People have long been touting breast milk as a cure-all for babies. Everything from baby acne to clogged tear ducts can be fixed with as little as one application of breast milk. I admit, when I first heard about it, I was skeptical. I thought those women were crazy for putting breast milk on their babies! 

I quickly got over my skepticism when Archer had a very bad clogged tear duct that massage and warm cloths just were not curing. His eye would matte over within minutes of my clearing it off, and when he would wake up from a long sleep, he wasn't even able to open his eye. It was painful watching my baby experience that, so when I read on a few websites that women were recommending putting a drop or two of breast milk directly in baby's eye, I decided to give it a whirl. If nothing else was working, why not, right? Oh man! Am I glad I tried it! I did two small drops into Archer's eye and BAM! The eye never matted up again. After I switched to formula only, I saved about 60 ounces of breast milk just in case I came across any other ailments that it could fix.

Unfortunately, if you have a baby who is dealing with skin problems, like baby acne, eczema, or just plain ol' dry skin, it can get kind of messy to just spritz on some breast milk, can't it? Luckily, I have a recipe for breast milk lotion just for these occasions! 

You will need-
3 tablespoons of oats (organic if you prefer)
5oz water
5oz breast milk
2tsp Bees wax pellets
6tsp Emulsifying wax
2 tablespoons sweet almond oil OR vitamin e oil
12 drops of chamomile oil
2 tsp vitamin c powder (crushed vitamins are an OK substitute to use as a preservative)
Clean jar or tub with airtight lid


Put oats into a pan with water; boil up until water starts to turn milky and thick. Turn heat off, add milk then set oats to drain in a muslin or on a piece of cheesecloth. When cool enough to handle, give the muslin a really good squish and mush to get all of the sticky liquid out- I found that using the back of a spoon to scrape the gloop from the outside of the muslin helped.
Add vitamin c powder and set oaty milky fluid to one side.

Melt in a clean pan 2 tsp of bees wax and 6tsp of emulsifying wax. When melted add the vitamin E oil and chamomile oil. This must be done on a really low heat.

While this is melting re-heat the milky oaty gloop do not simmer or boil just warm through nicely.

Keep both pans on a warm heat and pour a very small amount of the liquid into the oil. Give the mixture a very hard whisk. Keep doing this until you have no liquid left, then add the honey.
The honey makes the lumpy gooey mixture go really runny. KEEP whisking. When most of the lumps have gone and the mix is shiny and thick pour mix into your clean tub and allow to cool..

Throughout this process, the mixture went from smelling sweet to sickly to sweet, but the end product is a sweet scent of honey, oats and almost newborn baby breath smell. 

This cream will go a very long way if it is properly stored with an airtight container and in the refrigerator.