I can remember as a LLLL in the '70's & '80's going to the local pharmacy & purchasing small individual-use tins of pure lanolin (sometimes hydrous, sometimes anhydrous depending on what they had).  They were 50 cents and we sold them at cost at LLL meetings.  There were no commercial sources of just plain lanolin, and we just bought it from the local pharmacist.  Body moisturizers had fragrance & other additives that should not be ingested by infants, and we were told that the lanolin did not have to be removed before feeding if it was applied after a feeding.  The hospitals used some other cream-can't remember the name.  But then they insisted you wash it off with soap & water before breastfeeding the baby.  That wasn't much help!  Lanolin was the moisturizer of choice.  (And it's unsurpassed for chapped lips!)

P.D. Gordon RN, BS/BSN, IBCLC


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