Yippee!

My babies would be sorely miffed at being referred to as babies now, so I asked my friend Katherine to test the Yippee Playtime range from Little Me Organics on her 12 month old. Lots of essential oils and much more appealing-looking, smelling and to use than some of the ultra-sweet, heavily perfumed and bright pink lotions that are recommended for babies' skins.  My daughter, 7, insisted on inspecting and trying the product, as she does on everything that arrives.  "Is this for babies?" she asked incredulously.  "It smells VERY grown up.  Babies normally smell of washing but this is like a grown up lady perfume."  That's the rose element, I think.

Katherine tried it out and said the bath time bubbles didn't last very long but that is probably because of the lack of sodium laureth sulphate (if you want to avoid chemicals, you're going to have to reconcile yourself to a less bubbly life, I'm afraid) but loved the body cream.  "I'm not that sort of mum," she said shiftily, "but I did do a bit of baby massage on him and he sort of went into a trance.  He absolutely loved it.  But then I stole the body cream and I've been using it ever since."  Life is hard when you're one.