Pregnancy-friendly lipbalm suggestions please?

[Evianontoast]

What did you find worked best for you? Did you have any concerns or were you warned by medical professionals not to use or to only use certain brands?

Lansinoh nipple cream works great as a lip balm

I used my usual lip balms and no one, medically qualified or otherwise, suggested that I should alter my lip balm habits.

Lansinoh is good and can do double duty for BFing.

I'm so confused.

Why would lip balm not be pregnancy safe? What do you think is in lipbalm????

I have used Nivea throughout

You don’t need special lipbalm for pregnancy. Use whatever you were using before you did the test, it will make no difference whatsoever. You aren’t smearing it on the fetus.

They are all pregnancy friendly unless you are eating it.

What is a pregnancy unfriendly lip balm?

What makes you think that your usual lip balm is unsafe during pregnancy?

Where are you putting your lipbalm?

Aren't they all pregnancy friendly?

What??

😂

Huh? I just used the little tubs of Vaseline as I always did. Are pregnancy safe lip balms a thing?

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OP, do make sure you are using pregnancy-safe shampoo and conditioner as well. And washing up liquid.

I’ve never heard of lip balm being a concern when pregnant?

I always think posts like this must be a joke...

Good grief...some of the posts!!!

Any lip balm is fine in pregnancy!!!

I usually think posts like this must be from someone pretty anxious about their pregnancy who may have had a struggle to get there.

I've seen articles about pregnancy safe skincare and nail polish which recommended specific brands so don't think it's such an out there question.

Wow some pretty rude/unkind responses.

It’s true that some studies suggest that use of cosmetics in pregnancy can be linked to adverse outcomes (eg www.researchgate.net/publication/333462943_Maternal_cosmetics_use_during_pregnancy_and_risks_of_adverse_outcomes_a_prospective_cohort_study).

Therefore, some suggest that a number of ingredients in lip balms and other cosmetics are not recommended for use during pregnancy.

I use weleda lip balm and moisturiser which I believe are considered safe.

Say what now?

I used any old lip balm and my children appear to be ok.

I used lanisoh and my children turned out fine, although one has two heads and a tail, but I’m sure it’s unrelated.

@VegMam Don’t get me wrong, I am all for research providing us with information to keep us as safe as possible during pregnancy, but small changes like this often just make anxious moms-to-be even worse because something as tiny as lip balm can cause women to damage their baby.

That study excluded a lot of factors that are also important in assessing these adverse outcomes purely because they were not available (this included folic acid supplementation and nutritional intake).

“can supposedly cause damage to the baby” - above.

[quote catinthehat12]@VegMam Don’t get me wrong, I am all for research providing us with information to keep us as safe as possible during pregnancy, but small changes like this often just make anxious moms-to-be even worse because something as tiny as lip balm can cause women to damage their baby.

That study excluded a lot of factors that are also important in assessing these adverse outcomes purely because they were not available (this included folic acid supplementation and nutritional intake).[/quote]
I see where you’re coming from but I don’t generally suffer from anxiety, so for me I think knowledge is power and I’d rather use a different lip balm if there’s any risk. It’s not a big deal to use a different lip balm so why not.

I also don’t see how it’s helpful some posters being rude to the OP. I see stuff on here all the time I think is silly but I just scroll past rather than belittling someone’s concerns.