No need to worry about being soft on oneself (Johnson's Baby Powder)

Member Name: paul23-alvi

Product:	Johnson's Baby Powder
Date:	31/05/09 (35 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Fragrant,soft and very comfortable

Disadvantages: Easily spills on the floor.Inconvenient to have to clean the floor up.

Now that I have seen other people writing reviews,I think the time is right for me to write one.For many years I thought baby powder was called that because it was supposed to be for babies,and I feared that if I should be seen by anyone,putting it all over myself,especially on my bottom,I would get accused of
"being a baby".Originally I was gullible about the adverts in the 1960s and 1970s about the powder having strings attached to changing nappies.The overall impression I got was that the purpose of the powder was to enable any most indulgent caregiver (if he or she wanted to do it),to give the baby a superior level of comfort on the backside than a nice and clean nappy alone.
Although there has generally been a campaign to tell modern day parents NOT to use powder on a baby,I discover from reading other reviews,that a few people will recommend it for nappy time.
I have never been committed before to looking after a baby.I do not have any children of my own either.
As a person with Asperger's Syndrome,I had the chance early enough in life to know what powder was,and to know it's wonderful softness,although my mother almost never arranged for it to be used.For the rest of my childhood and most of my adolescence,I remained silent about this subject.From advertisements,or any paragraph from baby care books pertaining to the subject,I would have loved to have seen someone use powder on a baby,and I imagined myself wanting a baby of my own,who would show me a cute happy face in response to receiving powder,and who would years later remember me
changing his or her nappies and never forgetting to include talc.This excessive interest was partly due to the fact that I really wanted a time to come for me to
be soft on myself and rub it all over me,primarily on my backside.
I never dared ask my parents for an opinion in childhood for fear of receiving negative answers.My mother,although she loved me,was not an outwardly affectionate woman,and I imagined that "maternal affectionate approval" was
the only "correct" one,which I could not see myself receiving.My father,who is
no longer alive,was a dictatorial man, who ruled the running of the house with an iron fist.I think my dad dictated that powder for babies was not necessary,and stopped my mother from including powder after bath time and
nappy changes.Only on a very few number of occasions,when the exceptionally noxious odors,while I was messy,spread around the room(combined with the
obscenities and the word HORRIBLE being throw in my face)would a decision be made to bring some powder.It would have been wonderful If I had been entitled to wear Johnson's powder and live with that lovely fragrance every day,
and to continue receiving it even after graduating from lavatory training.
In the 1970s,most Johnson's baby requisites carried both a "Best for Baby"and a "Best for You" paragraph.It was usually presumed that the latter paragraph was aimed at women.The powder was the one item that did not carry a "Best for You"paragraph,which originally suggested to me that the manufacturers did
not even want women to use it for themselves,let alone bigger boys and grown men.
Then time came when I could not see myself having a baby of my own,and finally I made my decision to let the powder be mine and get comfortable all over.One evening after a Water Polo session,I was in a dressing room and saw someone using exactly the same kind of powder that he had brought along with him.In fact he was using it for his bottom.That showed that I was not alone.his motivation to use it certainly never came from me.
On an exceptionally hot night in the summertime when the bedroom remains hot even after dark,that is when I consider the powder to be ever so necessary.
I believe today that a baby any where in the world has the right to here something in the nicest voice ,(during the action of wiping a baby's bottom)
such as "Soothe......Baby is having fun this way when baby is messy" followed
not only with the best words about bringing and putting on a nice and clean nappy,but also I believe in caregiver and baby pleasantly thinking about the fragrance and softness of baby powder.
My own use, for many years ,featured little boy's thoughts and i used to associate it with happiness.Today those thoughts have evaporated.The existance and use of my powder is now on grownup terms.I deem the comfort from using it to be ordinary,in connection with bathroom drill/getting dressed.
I believe there is no need to wory about being soft on oneself.

Summary: The number one powder of all talcums