There are distinctions between safe pregnancy skin care and safe motherhood skin care (specifically as skincare relates to topical skincare solutions and products that can be transferred via placenta or if used when nursing.) Net: when you transition from pregnancy to motherhood, what defines "safe skincare" changes because the way that you can pass on chemicals to your child changes.
As a mother, when considering safe pregnancy skincare products: if you're expecting, you should look for products that have been teratology screened. What is teratology? This means experts search through millions of published medical research articles to see if an ingredient has ever been linked to birth defects. These ingredients are completely avoided in the formulations of the products.
On the other hand, if you've delivered and are now nursing your child, you should look for skincare products that have been LACTMED screened. LactMed screening is the process that identifies ingredients linked to harmful effects during breastfeeding. Any ingredients known to be harmful to nursing babies through the breast milk are excluded.
Ingredients that are potentially harmful during pregnancy can be different than those that are potentially harmful if you are breastfeeding.
Belli Skincare offers pregnant and new moms the safest skincare solutions, no matter what stage of motherhood they are in. The Belli Pregnancy line is teratology screened and the Belli Motherhood line is LACTMED screened.
The Belli Pregnancy line has set a higher standard for prenatal safety in the cosmetic industry since 2002. It is the only skin care line in the world that performs ongoing teratology screening of every ingredient through millions of published medical articles in the MEDLINE, TOXLINE, DART, and TERIS databases. Belli removes any ingredient with links to birth defects, at any dose or from any method of exposure, and replaces them with ingredients that have better safety profiles.
Whenever possible and when the research shows that a natural ingredient is the safest choice, Belli purchases from organic farmers to avoid possible contamination with pesticides. In addition to teratology-screening, products are sent to an independent laboratory for skin irritation testing, followed by a nine-week extensive trial of repeat insult patch testing to establish hypoallergenicity.
Founder and medical director, Jason P. Rubin, M.D., oversees Belli's exclusive teratology screening process. Dr. Rubin is an authority on skincare safety, a board-certified family practitioner. Belli has been a regular exhibitor at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists annual meeting since 2005.
Belli Motherhood continues the higher standard of safety by screening each ingredient through the National Library of Medicine's LACTMED database to help new mothers avoid harmful chemicals while breastfeeding. Through LACTMED screening, Belli excludes any ingredients known to be harmful to nursing babies through the breast milk.
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