Burt's Bees Baby Bee Buttermilk Lotion

I actually tried this lotion several years ago thinking that if it was good enough for a baby then it would be good for my dry sensitive skin.  Plus it smelled nice.  Boy was I wrong...it cause my skin to become extremely red & itchy.  I was at work when I put it on and I was trying to wash as much off in the sink as I could.  The itching did not completely go away until I was able to get home and shower.  I never even considered using it on my daughter when she came along because of how I reacted to it.  I'm not sure what it was...possibly the borate (borax)...which is a toxic cleaning agent btw.

Burt's Bees smells nice, and has a good feel, but they use "fragrance." It's pretty potent! I don't know what else might have set off my baby's skin, but we had a bad reaction to it. One evening I used Baby Bee on my son after not using it for a while. The next morning he was flame red! He has food sensitivities, so I was racking my brain to see what I might have fed him. Then I saw a handprint on his chest. I'd rubbed my hands together with lotion, then rubbed the lotion on his back while holding his chest. Ouch! It took us almost a month to get his skin back to normal. No more Burt's for us! He also cried when I used the Baby Bee diaper ointment on him, but laughs with Weleda's Calendula ointment.

With this product I feel the same as about most other Burt's Bees products and that is that they WERE a great natural choice about 10 years ago when no other natural products almost existed, but today we have way better options and Burt's Bees just does not measure up any more.

This product like most of their others is way too fragranced and even though most of the ingredients are great, in my opinion they are not good enough for baby. So I would not recommend this lotion, there are many better options out there today.