most of my favorite uses actually are like you mentioned, topic call uses. we make homemade lotion. i also have a recipe called lotion bars, which look like a bar of soap. you use them on dry skin. you would put it on your skin just like a lotion. since coconut oil is more solid at room temperature and you add in ingredients like bees wax and shea butter, it s a solid bar. but when it touches your skin, it melts a little bit and moisturizes the skin. so it s really nourishing without being oily. that s one of my favorite uses. but you can use it for any kind of beauty and personal care uses. you can make homemade lip gloss. we use it in homemade toothpaste. i like some of the uses you had for babies. you could use it with cloth diapers to prevent diaper rash by rubbing it on the baby s bottom. you also used it for baby s cap, which are the head gets crusty when the baby is born. you rubbed it into the head and
it softened all of that. what other uses did you find for babies? i found that fascinating. chemical-free. exactly. i have a lot of first-hand experience with that since we have five kids and my oldest is eight. so i have a lot of recent experience with babies. with cloth diapers you can t use most conventional diaper creams because the ingredients will make the cloth diaper smell over the long roun. i found coconut oil by itself or even using coconut oil with a little zinc oxide which is the active ingredient in things like destin, you can make your own diaper cream that you can use at home. babies are very sensitive so i don t like to put most conventional products on them and certainly anything with chemicals since it can be irritating to their skin. coconut oil is an excellent lotion that you can use on babies or you can mix it with equal parts shea butter and it is extremely nourishing for their skin and like you mentioned, a couple of my little ones had cradle cap and all i
but most of my favorite uses actually are like you mentioned topical uses. so we make homemade lotion with it, and then i also have a recipe called lotion bars which look like a bar of soap but you use them on dry skin. you would put it on your skin like a lotion but since coconut is more solid at room temperature and you add an ingredient like bees wax and shea butter. it s a solid bar but when it touches your skin it melts a little bit and moisturizes the skin so it s really nourishing without being oily. that s one of my favorite uses. in that same vein, you can use it for any beauty and personal care uses. you can make homemade lip gloss. i use it in our homemade toothpaste. there really are 101 uses. i like some of the uses you had for babies. you could use it with cloth diapers to prevent diaper rash by rubbing it on the baby s bottom and you also used it for baby s cap, when the head gets crusty when the baby is born. you rubbed it into the head and
it is a school project. i don t really care that much what the product is, as long as they put in the most effort that they humanly can. reporter: but she has a warning for parents. i definitely think that you can push a kid too far and too hard. and i think when you do that, what you risk is sending a message to your child, you re not good enough. you need to keep getting better. go! reporter: back to little austin. come back here! reporter: if other parents look at your example and they say, wow, they re pushing pretty hard. what do you say to that? i don t think we are pushing hard. if he were to tell me, mom, i don t want to do this. i would stop. reporter: rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. extreme guide to parenting premieres tonight on bravo. reena, what is your motto as a parent? do you make your kids wash their cloth diapers or make their
whether it is homework, whether it is a school project. i don t really care that much what the product is, as long as they put in the most effort that they humanly can. reporter: but she has a warning for parents. i definitely think that you can push a kid too far and too hard. and i think when you do that, what you risk is sending a message to your child, you re not good enough. you need to keep getting better. go! reporter: back to little austin. come back here! reporter: if other parents look at your example and they say, wow, they re pushing pretty hard. what do you say to that? i don t think we are pushing hard. if he were to tell me, mom. i don t want to do this. i would stop. reporter: rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. extreme guide to parenting premieres tonight on bravo. reena, what is your motto as a parent? do you make your kids wash their cloth diapers or their cribs?