Child’s farm vs aveeno vs supermarket body wash and shampoo

I’m looking at baby shampoo, body wash, moisturisers etc.

I love aveeno for myself and see they do a baby range, is it any good?

I’ve also got a 20% discount for child’s farm, is it any good?

Or is Aldi/tesco/asda etc just as suitable for a newborn?

Please help a clueless first time mum!

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If it’s something you care about, you can get the Yuka app. It’s free. You scan the bar codes and it tells you information about the ingredients and safety of specific products. Like I said, not everyone believes in all that or agrees with the app ratings - but it’s something you can try with pretty much all food, cosmetics, and practically any product you or your baby will use - if it’s your sort of thing.

Babies are unique so we grabbed like one or two products in different brands. Luckily my son hasn’t reacted to anything but your baby could react to one over the other so it’s trial and error

Lots of baby products contain harmful chemicals. We’ve always used Nala’s baby x

We were gifted a few different brands and quickly found child’s farm was best for our little boy as others dried his skin. As the above comment says every child is different so definitely would recommend to get a couple of samples or travel sizes to try first x

I’m glad Child’s farm is winning - I’ve been using Yuka for a long time and all of Childs farm’s products consistently score very high. Aveeno, some are excellent and some are poor. I feel like Childs farm is the only children’s brand across all product types that scored well.

Also another brand other than Childs farm is Moogoo. That brand uses like food grade ingredients, no tears formula and it explains every ingredient used in every product in brackets at the back on the ingredient s list and justifies why it has been used.

Child’s farm was good for us, again we use Yuka. I have used certain aveeno bath products for the kids too which have scored highly. Budget option is boots own, I’ve just recently bought their body wash for my kids as it scored highly and I think it was only like £1.50. I’ve used Sanex before as one of them rated quite highly and smelt nice! It really is just personal preference - I’m lucky my kids don’t have sensitive skin so I just get what I want really

Aveeno for sure! I’ve used it since LO was a newborn and tried Johnson’s which just dried her skin out. We use Childs farm for swimming :) x

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