Soothe Away Mini Colds with Mustela's New Baby Balm

Courtesy of Mustela

Watching your baby struggle through their first cold is no fun. There’s nothing you wouldn’t do to ease their discomfort. Now you can try Mustela‘s new Soothing Comfort Balm ($13).

Made with all-natural, baby-friendly ingredients, the handy chest rub was developed to safely soothe sniffly, stuffed up newborns.

While other brands use terpene compounds — which can pose a risk to the nervous system — Mustela lets Mother Nature do all the work.

Pine and rosemary open up nasal passages while Shea butter and honey extract ease achy skin and muscles. There’s even a touch of chamomile and lemon to help cranky tots sleep.

Just gently rub the balm on your baby’s neck, chest and back just before bed or naptime — you’ll be amazed at how quickly your little one feels better.

— Missy

Comments

I am curious about the ingredients of the Medela Soothing Comfort Balm. From what I have read, Medela manufactures under strict European guidelines, but I have been hesitant to use some of their products because of the strong scent that is simply labeled as ‘parfum’ on the ingredients list. Some ‘parfum’ ingredients contain BPA. It would be great if Medela offered a fragrance-free version of each product. We have been using Nature’s Baby Organics Ah-Choo Chest Rub this winter. It is USDA Certified Organic, and worked so well for my two kids (3 yrs, 18 mo) that I used it for myself when I caught a chest cold. The gentle formula was effective even on my grown-up cold.

- Selena on February 12th, 2010

The nonprofit site Skin Deep is great at seeing what is in products and what health risks they pose. Here’s a link to the site as well as more information on it: http://bit.ly/9zAF1i

- UggaMugga.com on February 12th, 2010

Hmm, I am curious about this as well as the Ah-Choo Chest Rub that Selena mentioned.
When my 2 year old daughter had a terrible head cold a few weeks ago, I was looking everywhere for something. I ended up purhcasing non-medicated Vick’s BabyRub (not to be confused with plain ‘ol VaporRub).
The ingredients are just Petrolatum, fragrance, aloe extract, eucalyptus oil, lavender oil, rosemary oil.

- HeatherB on February 12th, 2010

Selena, a lot of their stuff also have parabens, so I don’t know what strict European guidelines they’re going by.

- Rebecca on February 17th, 2010