I just love the ideas you all are putting out there!!

Keep em coming!!

My oldest is 29, and I never used baby powder, always cornstarch on his bottom, also on the other 3 kids, the same.  Worked wonders.

 I just discovered this thread after waxing poetic about olive oil on another thread.

Stores have to apply to accept FS/SNAP and meet USA requirements for selling a variety and enough food.  Family Dollar, Dollar General, Ninety-Cents Only, and 7-11 all accept FS/SNAP.

 I use olive oil on a nasty dry chronic skin condition with a prominent dermatologist's blessing.

But it doesn't have to be olive oil.  You can use something cheaper, like soy oil or sunflower oil, if you can tolerate it.  The issue is the pureness of the oil, that it doesn't have addtional stuff in it. That's why my doctor approves of it.

 I think I am allergic to coconut oil, very drying, so it doesn't go on my skin.

 Fats are less likely to have the allergens than carborhydrates.

If you feed your baby soy formula, you can certainly try rubbing soy oil on the baby.

If you can find arrowroot poweder, and I found a large bag cheap in a health food store, you can try that as a skin powder.  I've seen yam powder in African stores.  Just look around in different ethnic stores.

 Corn is an infamous American allergen;  I don't know how allergenic cornstarch actually is. But everybody is different!.

Dear All, I am afraid that I must slllightly differ with mad4color on the issue of what stores will take SNAP/Food Stamps.  Not all Walgreens will take them, for example.  A chain is permitted to have soooooome stores under teh program, & sooome not.  Yours in Him, Deb

I didn't imply that all stores in a chain take EBT benefts  I said stores have to apply, so I don't know if each individual store in a chain applies or qualifies.

 I wonder if each Family Dollar or Dollar General,  for example, is always selling 50% food, how often USDA audits them, and what it takes to get removed by them.  7-11 probably sells a ton of food, but at high prices.  I thnk  50% food s he required percentage, with a certain variey.

 In my area, looks like all the Family Dollars and Dollar Generals take FS/SNAP.   My local Walgreens don't even stock all that much food.Walgreens tons of pharmacy revenue may figure in the USDA formula.

 Dollar stores will tell you that a lot of their revenue comes from cleaning supplies, so how Family Dollar and Dollar General meet the requirements, I don't know. But both FD and DG stock perishables, so they mght be selling lots of food.

 Nevertheless, it's up to the USDA to audit them.