When Can I Give My Newborn Their First Bath?

It’s a good idea to wait at least 24 hours after they’re born to give your baby their first bath. Until those 24 hours have passed, you can use soft towels to gently wipe your little one’s skin if needed. When you do go to bathe them for the first time, make it a sponge bath. Your newborn won’t be ready for a regular bath until their umbilical stump falls off in a week or two. Sponge baths — or just wiping with a towel — gives your baby time to learn how to regulate their body temperature outside the womb.

What Supplies Do I Need To Bathe My Newborn?

Bathing your newborn doesn’t take a lot of extra gear, so don’t feel like you have to run out and buy everything you can get your hands on. To keep your baby safe, you will need a small baby bath tub or sink insert that your little one can lie on comfortably within the larger body of water (e.g., the bathtub in the bathroom or the sink in the kitchen). After that, you’ll need a body wash, shampoo, or an all-in-one cleanser, like our Gentle Cleansing Gel, to wash with. To round out your list of supplies, have a soft towel, washcloth, plastic cup (for pouring water over baby’s body), and a clean diaper and pair of clothes nearby and ready for use.

How Often Should I Bathe My Baby?

Babies don’t really get sweaty or dirty — other than the occasional spit-up, drool, or diaper blowout — so we typically recommend giving your little one a bath two or three times a week. Between those baths, you can clean up messes with baby wipes or our Organic Micellar Water with Olive Oil and Aloe . Bathing your baby only two or three times a week helps prevent their delicate skin from drying out and becoming irritated, cracked, and uncomfortable.

How Do I Use Mustela’s Gentle Cleansing Gel?

Using our Gentle Cleansing Gel is super easy. • Dispense a pump or two of Gentle Cleansing Gel into your hand. • Rub your hands together to work the gel into a lather. • Gently wash your baby’s body and scalp. • Rinse skin and hair with fresh water. • Pat baby dry with a soft towel taking particular care of the diaper area and skin folds (thighs, armpits, neck, etc.). For even more moisturizing and protection, apply lotion before dressing and make sure their clothing doesn’t irritate their skin.

What Is Avocado Perseose?

Avocado contains a long list of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients that are good for your skin, including folate, magnesium, monounsaturated fatty acids, niacin, and vitamins A, B-6, C, E, and K. At Mustela, we give you the best of those vitamins, minerals, and nutrients by including Avocado Perseose® in many of our most popular products. This unique ingredient derived from sustainably sourced avocados strengthens skin cells, reinforces the skin barrier, and locks in hydration to help keep skin healthy. So, with our Gentle Cleansing Gel, not only are you cleansing your baby’s delicate skin, you’re also actively working to keep it soft, supple, and silky smooth.

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An extra-gentle gel that gently cleanses and hydrates baby’s delicate skin, nourishes, and leaves delicate hair and skin soft and lightly scented. ...

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Gentle cleansing gel is a newborn-friendly,
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Aqua/Water/Eau, Glycerin, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Sodium Myreth Sulfate, Peg-7 Glyceryl Cocoate, Coco-Glucoside, Peg-150 Distearate, Glyceryl Caprylate, Glycol Distearate, Parfum (Fragrance), Citric Acid, Panthenol, Potassium Sorbate, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Fruit Extract.

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It’s a good idea to wait at least 24 hours after they’re born to give your baby their first bath. Until those 24 hours have passed, you can use soft towels to gently wipe your little one’s skin if needed.
When you do go to bathe them for the first time, make it a sponge bath. Your newborn won’t be ready for a regular bath until their umbilical stump falls off in a week or two.
Sponge baths — or just wiping with a towel — gives your baby time to learn how to regulate their body temperature outside the womb.
Bathing your newborn doesn’t take a lot of extra gear, so don’t feel like you have to run out and buy everything you can get your hands on.
To keep your baby safe, you will need a small baby bath tub or sink insert that your little one can lie on comfortably within the larger body of water (e.g., the bathtub in the bathroom or the sink in the kitchen).
After that, you’ll need a body wash, shampoo, or an all-in-one cleanser, like our Gentle Cleansing Gel, to wash with.
To round out your list of supplies, have a soft towel, washcloth, plastic cup (for pouring water over baby’s body), and a clean diaper and pair of clothes nearby and ready for use.
Babies don’t really get sweaty or dirty — other than the occasional spit-up, drool, or diaper blowout — so we typically recommend giving your little one a bath two or three times a week.
Between those baths, you can clean up messes with baby wipes or our Organic Micellar Water with Olive Oil and Aloe.
Bathing your baby only two or three times a week helps prevent their delicate skin from drying out and becoming irritated, cracked, and uncomfortable.
Using our Gentle Cleansing Gel is super easy.
• Dispense a pump or two of Gentle Cleansing Gel into your hand.
• Rub your hands together to work the gel into a lather.
• Gently wash your baby’s body and scalp.
• Rinse skin and hair with fresh water.
• Pat baby dry with a soft towel taking particular care of the diaper area and skin folds (thighs, armpits, neck, etc.).
For even more moisturizing and protection, apply lotion before dressing and make sure their clothing doesn’t irritate their skin.
Avocado contains a long list of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients that are good for your skin, including folate, magnesium, monounsaturated fatty acids, niacin, and vitamins A, B-6, C, E, and K.
At Mustela, we give you the best of those vitamins, minerals, and nutrients by including Avocado Perseose® in many of our most popular products.
This unique ingredient derived from sustainably sourced avocados strengthens skin cells, reinforces the skin barrier, and locks in hydration to help keep skin healthy.
So, with our Gentle Cleansing Gel, not only are you cleansing your baby’s delicate skin, you’re also actively working to keep it soft, supple, and silky smooth.

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