✦ The Baby ritual
Newborn hair needs almost nothing — and doing less, consistently, is the whole routine. Here's the version we'd start with.
Step 1
How much · A dime-size amount of shampoo, no more.
Time · 3–4 minutes
What we'd use
Step 2
How much · One or two drops of oil. It should never look wet or greasy.
Time · 2–3 minutes
What we'd use
Step 3
How much · A fingertip of leave-in, worked through the ends.
Time · 2 minutes
What we'd use
Flaky newborn scalp, explained gently
Those yellowish flakes on a newborn's scalp are extremely common, usually painless, and almost always temporary.
Baby's first wash day
The whole thing takes ten minutes. Here's the order, the amounts, and what you can safely skip.
How to touch a newborn's scalp
Pressure, direction and timing — the small mechanics nobody tells first-time parents.
✦ What comes next
Around the toddler years wash day gets longer and detangling becomes the main event.
See the little one ritual✦ We grow with you™
We'll check in around six months, when their hair starts changing on you. No drip campaign, no daily noise — one note when what you're doing should change, with the routine already written out.
Baby's birth month is optional — it only sets the timing.
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