"Paint on" diaper cream with a makeup brush

Cristina's solution to sticky diaper cream-covered hands:

To keep hands (and thus everything else) clean during changes when we have to apply rash cream, I bought an inexpensive foundation makeup brush. The gloppiest cream can be applied liberally this way and the clean diaper put on without all the cream getting everywhere.

Related: How to change diapers without getting cream on your hands

Comments

[kate wood]

Already commented on FB, but thought i'd add it here... I always put the diaper cream right on to the diaper and then smeared.

[Tina Roggenkamp]

Yeah, I just put the cream on a wipe and spread (but the diaper would work too). Then you don't have to wash a brush or scrub the cream off your hands.

[Cindy]

This wouldn't work for us. Our girls have issues with BAD diaper rashes so we've taken to putting on HUGE amounts of cream at a time. Its more like icing a cake

[Eric]

I always wiped my hands on the inside of the clean diaper.

[Robyn]

Qtips work well too. Just throw them out with the dirty diaper.

[Jenni]

Good idea, but expensive if you throw it out each time (which you should). Buy a box of latex gloves (you can usually get a good deal at COSTCO) and use those to apply and then peel and toss!

Q-tips work for the "light" application, but if you have to use a huge amount (like Cindy) the gloves work best.

[Asha Dornfest]

This hack is getting mostly nixxed on Twitter and Facebook as well. Good suggestion on the PH FB page from Margaret: coconut oil as a natural diaper cream alternative. http://on.fb.me/lu0vPu

[Golden]

but don't you have to wash the makeup brush now (which sounds like more of pain that washing it off your hands)?

[Jkbentley]

Maybe they meant those foam makeup wedges? I tend to just use my hands since I am going to wash them anyway.

[Barbara]

When needed we put it on the diaper, then use the diaper to blot it on. I've found though that corn starch blotted on with a cotton ball takes care of her diaper rashes better than anything else. I tried diaper rash creams and they just didn't help.

[Diana Buckner]

we use cloth diapers, so barrier creams don't work for us. but what we do use is an all natural twist up stick. grovia magic stick https://www.thenaturalbabyco.com/diapering/wipesandaccessories/grovia-magic-stick.html
no mess, no meds, no chemicals, it is awesome!!

[Marya]

We used popsicle sticks - cheap, disposable, and you can easily put lots on ("butter" their bum). And hygenic, so you don't re-contaminate the container each time.

[Hillary]

I second the GroVia stick. It works really well and it is so nice to not have to clean my hands on something after doing a diaper change!