What are some uses for baby oil?

It can be used as a moisturizer. It is very nice used in the shower while you are still dewy.

You can oil up babies with it!

@Marina I’ve wondered about that. Does it make you greasy? Do you rinse it off?

@loser Hunnie… I said besides oiling babies! LOL

I had a use for it when I was thirteen that involved my genitals and a Victoria’s Secret catalog.

Yes, I rinse.

THE TRASH CAN! baby oil is horrible for the skin.

Baby Oil is good for lubricating Landfills which is where it belongs. Over-use on babies causes rashes as their skin pores can’t breathe. If you get Baby Oil on one doorhandle, it will spread to every item you own and everything you touch will be greasy & slippery. Baby Oil is best used to fill up the trash can so that it can be thrown out with the garbage before it harms your baby & your property.

To keep babies from squeaking.

Why do you guys say it’s horrible for the skin? I’ve never heard this before…

@essieness because it’s mineral oil

@_Liz But what’s so bad about mineral oil? Sorry if I sound stupid, but I just don’t have any idea.

In high school when I played baseball I used it on my baseball glove. Not sure this is relevant to you at all though? :)

During the soccer season, I was a goalkeeper, we would play well into the winter. I put baby oil on my hands to help keep them warm. It closes up the pores nicely.

@essieness you don’t sound stupid. lots of people have no idea. it keeps the skin from breathing among other things. look up mineral oil’s effect on the skin

It’s bad for the skin if you use it too much. Babies need healthy skin that can breath & is open to air, not to have their skin sealed up & oiled shut. Baby oil is like a contagious virus that you can catch off doorhandles. If you walk into a KFC, you get greased off the doorhandle, but chicken grease washes off whereas Baby Oil is almost permanent.

Ok, so I looked it up. Is this concern more for if you use a shit ton of it? I’m not going to get pneumonia from using it once in a while, am I? That just seems a little extreme. Plus, I don’t planning on oiling up my entire body, LOL. So, is it like most things that are OK in moderation?

It depends, what parts of your body are you going to oil up?

Oddly enough, they used to drink castor oil for constipation in the late 19th century. This is not a healthy thing to do either.

@psyla what’s wrong with drinking castor oil?

Castor oil will seal off the wall of the intestines so no nutrition can enter, though Edgar Cayce recommended it many times as a remedy, he never explained what helpful action it performs. We might assume it softens, loosens, & frees old fecal matter, but I don’t believe the laxative potion salesmen – I do not believe that our intestines allow anything to accumulate on them, they’re like nasal passages, in a way, their object is to keep themselves clear. So I see no benefit to oiling them other than to give them an annoyance – cleaning oil off themselves – hoping this annoyance will energize them.

i disagree.

Why so?

A lot of women drink castor oil to bring on labor. It causes you to expel everything in your intestines, intestinal distress can cause labor. I’d never want to be crapping my brains out before giving birth. lol

I would never, ever use baby oil. I tried telling you this on your other thread..but you wouldn’t listen to me. I know many other recipes, which I have gotten from friends, but have been meaning to read the aromatherapy book they got the infomation from.
I would never stick it on my child. I used to use it, when a teenager, to tan myself better…but I’d never do that now, because I fear skin cancer.

i don’t think it blocks nuitrients..i do think peristalsis can slow/stop…other things..but i’m not a doctor

You can use baby oil to remove a band-aid without pain. Put lots on the ends where the adhesive is, and rub it in. The band-aid comes right off without any pain. Great with kids.

It also removes temporary tattoos, which is great when your kids get carried away!

If anything, peristalsis will increase as the intestines try to wash themselves clean – using the body water stock & risking dehydration as loose stools come pouring out. Castor Oil is a “purgative” something foul added to the body, forcing it to purge out the insult. The only good oils to consume are natural food oils such as fish oils & vitamins A, D, E, & K. I miss the old days when you got a finger bowl to wash the grease off after eating chicken. KFC even added a “wet nap” towelette to its meals. No more. Nowadays, all objects are coated slick with a thick layer of lotion, baby oil, or food grease.

As a side note, I’ve noticed that lotion-wearers grip everything they hold alot tighter than normal people. This is so they don’t drop everything from their lubricated hands.

lol i love lotion and oils :P

but i think the half teaspoon of castor oil i took a few hours ago is fine

Edgar Cayce did recommend castor oil, but I wouldn’t overdo it… How often do you take it?

eh maybe once a month. my diets a little screwy.

It’s important to remember to change your baby’s oil every 3,000 miles.

It’s great eye-makeup remover. Doesn’t sting. Cheap!

Oops. youuuuu already said that.

Well I second that!

The most common use of baby oil is to apply it to people’s doorknobs who don’t give you treats as the secondmost obnoxious, evil, and illegal Halloween trick next to toilet-papering their trees. Stores should lock up baby oil like they do with spray paint if the FDA won’t ban it outright.

How about the old baby-oil-and-iodine routine to fry—I mean suntan—quickly? Popular with the Marsha Brady crowd in the 1970’s, along with lemon juice on your hair to make it more blonde. You know, the days before “skin cancer” and “UV rays” were linked…

The thyroid would love the iodine, but for suntanning I guess baby oil beats using a magnifying glass as you can fry your skin all at once instead of a square inch at a time. Those fake suntans really chap my hide!

@AstroChuck: my baby threw a rod.

@PupnTaco Haaaahaha.

If you hear babies crying when you’re at Jiffy Lube, you know what’s going on.

BTW, mineral/baby oil is not as bad as some think. Link
The upshot is, don’t use it with things that can clog your pores, as it my trap them. If you’re just using it by itself or with say brown sugar, it’s perfectly fine.

Removing eye make-up, I heard.