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Product Description
The next best thing to vernix.
For the earliest days, when your baby's skin needs protection, nourishment and very little else.
The beginning
Newborn skin does not need soap, bubbles, fragrance or a complicated skincare routine. Plain warm water, a very gentle way to cleanse, and lipid-rich protection afterward can be enough.
First Touch brings those things together. One sponge made from a single root vegetable. One rich butter made with 99% organic, food-grade quality ingredients and formulated specifically for delicate newborn skin. Both are safe to use from the very beginning, including with premature babies.
What This Ritual Holds
Two things, chosen because newborn skin needs less, not more.
First Touch Butter
EWG VERIFIED®. 99% organic, food-grade quality ingredients. No essential oils or added fragrance. Safe from birth, including for premature babies.
Japanese Konjac Sponge
One ingredient: konjac root. A biodegradable Japanese sponge that becomes exceptionally soft in water and gently cleanses without soap or detergent.
Why These Two Formulas Belong Together
The konjac sponge cleanses without requiring soap or detergent. First Touch follows with the botanical lipids that nourish and protect the skin after the bath.
That is the entire system.
Instead of repeatedly stripping newborn skin and then adding products to compensate, the First Touch Ritual begins with gentler cleansing and follows with lipid-rich care.
First Touch can replace an assortment of newborn products too. It works as an all-over body butter, facial moisturizer, massage medium, everyday diaper-area barrier, protection for folds and drool-exposed skin, and a way to soften cradle-cap scales. It is also cloth-diaper friendly.
The ingredients are 99% organic and food-grade quality, sourced fair trade where available. First Touch contains no essential oils and no added fragrance, and it is EWG VERIFIED®.
First Touch. The next best thing to vernix.
Vernix protects your baby's skin through the extraordinary transition from the womb into the world. Once it is gone, we cannot recreate it exactly, but we can respect what it teaches us: protect the surface, provide lipids and interfere as little as possible.
That thinking is behind First Touch.
Not a shelf full of newborn skincare. Two carefully chosen things for cleansing, nourishing, protecting and touching the skin you have only just been given to care for.
If This Window Is Also Yours
First Touch is care for your baby. If you are in the first forty days after birth too, the First 40 Days Ritual extends that care to your recovering body with the soak, serum and body care created for this particular postpartum window.
[Explore the First 40 Days Ritual →]
For the long evenings when neither of you seems able to settle, Evening Containment carries First Touch into a repeated evening ritual for closing the day.
[Explore Evening Containment →]
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Ingredients
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First Touch Butter:
Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Seed Butter*, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil*, Magnifera Indica (Mango) Seed Butter*, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter*, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil*, Cannabis Sativa (Hemp) Seed Oil*, Ricinus Communis (Castor) Oil*, Simondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil*, Copernicia Cerifera (Carnauba) Wax*, Tocopherol (Vitamin E)
*certified organic ingredients
Konjac Sponge:
Konjac Root
*organically grown ingredients
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How to Use
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The Ritual
Begin with warm water. Soak the konjac sponge until it becomes completely soft, then move it gently over your baby's skin. Around the neck, behind the ears, between fingers and toes, through the folds where milk, lint and moisture collect. The sponge provides the cleansing, so there is no need for soap, bubbles or another cleanser.
After the bath, pat your baby dry and use small amount of First Touch Butter to massage your baby's body. Massage it over the body, face, hands and feet, through the folds and creases, and across the diaper area.
Use it where drool collects around the mouth and chin. Work a little into the scalp to soften cradle-cap scales.
Put it on your own hands too. There is enough slip to let your hands move slowly without leaving your baby coated in liquid oil and slippery to hold.
There is no added fragrance. Only the faint natural scent of the ingredients, particularly cocoa butter, so nothing needs to compete with the familiar smell of you and your baby.
What You Will Notice
The skin feels soft, nourished and protected without a heavy or greasy coating. The same butter can move from cheeks to tiny toes, through folds and across the diaper area, without requiring a different product for every part of your baby's body.
You begin learning your baby's body while your baby learns the familiarity of yours, touch is the first language a baby understands.
And For Your Baby
Newborn skin is still adapting to life outside the womb. This matters even more for premature babies, whose thinner, more permeable skin loses water and heat more easily.
First Touch was formulated with carefully selected plant oils and butters that provide a broad range of fatty acids while leaving a protective lipid layer on the skin.
Touch contributes something of its own. Warm hands, slow massage and repeated close contact are among the earliest sensory signals your baby understands, long before words
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