Boudreaux’s Butt Paste
I’ve been home with a rashy child all day (who is thankfully on the mend; full of piss and vinegar and other repulsive substances), so it seems like an appropriate time to mention my personal recommendation for treating irritant diaper dermatitis.
Well, okay, it’s not really my personal recommendation in the sense that it’s some trade secret that only an elite group of specially trained Baby Assologists know about; I’m referring to Boudreaux’s Butt Paste, a product that has enjoyed a robust upswing in PR recently, due to poor helpless Brad Pitt & Family.
I actually bought the damn stuff after I read that article, since I’m such a ridiculous product bandwagon cattle-whore. We had some generic brand of diaper cream which I didn’t need to use very often, so I didn’t give much consideration to the various brands of ass-unguent. Then one of his teachers at daycare told me his butt looked a little red, and that I should try “Boot-roh”. I said thanks and forgot all about it until I read the People Butt Paste Shout-Out, and I thought, “Ohhhh. Boudreaux.”
I picked some up from the drugstore, and you know what? The stuff works like a charm. If Riley’s butt is even a teensy bit red, one application of the Butt Paste totally remedies the situation. It’s incredibly thick, so it must form a super-protective layer between a baby’s skin and anything that touches it. It smells kind of medicinal, in a weirdly comforting, old-fashioned way.
So the Boot-roh’s: good stuff. Too bad I can’t rub it all over Riley’s body to make his viral rash go away, but it’s nice to have on hand for the heinie-related issues. This would be a good extra little baby shower gift – with a big picture of Brad Pitt included, of course.
Note: while purchasing a product named “Butt Paste” at a Walgreen’s, you may be tempted to inform the pimply checkout boy that it’s for babies, lest he think you are buying some progressive, Gen-X hemorrhoid cream. I urge you to avoid this conversational opener, otherwise the clerk will look at you with the sort of bored, contemptuous stare that says, “Lady, I don’t give a fig if you’re buying a battery-powered ‘back massager’, adult diapers, or a case of Gas-X. Just slide the goddamned debit card and go.”
Link: Boudreaux’s Butt Paste 2oz
Ballpark price: $5.49
Posted: September 27th, 2006 under Baby/Kid's gear, Personally recommended by Linda.
Comments: 11
Comments
Comment from Swistle
Time: September 28, 2006, 5:57 am
Ha ha ha ha!
Also, I’m going to go buy some of this stuff. I have about five tubes of various diaper creams in the drawer, and none of them seem to do anything except turn the baby’s butt white.
Comment from michelle
Time: September 28, 2006, 6:13 am
I read this and immediately thought…. Gen-X chamois butter… you know, for cyclist asses. Move over Bag Balm!
Comment from aoife
Time: September 28, 2006, 6:23 am
I bought some boudroux’s at the end of our diapering era… its okay. The stuff I LOVE, however, is Butt Balm. Which, for some reason is only available in hickville Indiana. http://butt-balm.com/ But they sell online now. Someone bought me this for my baby shower and it was the best.
Comment from rebecca
Time: September 28, 2006, 9:09 am
I love your site! What a genius idea to post stuff that you like and want to talk about (I totally want to do that).
Anyway, I’ve heard good things about the Boudreaux’s - will pick some up next time I’m at Walgreens. I have a 17 month old boy who is occasionally prone to the red crackage.
Comment from Mandy
Time: September 28, 2006, 9:22 am
We had some Boudreaux’s, but I couldn’t get past the smell. On the other hand–love, love, love Dr. Smith’s Diaper Ointment (in the tube, not jar): http://www.doctorsmith.com/diaper.htm.
Comment from Lisa (the girls’ moma)
Time: September 28, 2006, 9:59 am
Oh, yes. I’d had the love for the Butt-Paste for a couple of years now. It was one of the only things I asked for when my second daughter was born 15 months ago!
I discovered it when my older daughter had a particularly terrible diaper rash. I spent a good 20 minutes reading the back of every diaper cream box in Target, to see if any of them were any different than the rest. Boudreaux’s has more of the active ingredient, zinc oxide, than the others. That’s why I bought it and I’ve never gone back!
Comment from b.
Time: September 28, 2006, 12:12 pm
My favorite butt cream is still good old-fashioned Desitin (but not the new “creamy” kind, which is worse than useless). I even love the smell (I think because my mother used Desitin on me back in the day…is that TMI?).
But I’ll give the Boot-ruh a whirl. 
My baby Mushroom boy has had quite the case of rash lately and all we’ve had on hand is Balmex…useless tube of white stuff.
Comment from Jenny
Time: September 28, 2006, 1:03 pm
I use a hair dryer on my son’s butt after a wipe on the changing table and I’ve never had a rash since.
Comment from Melissa
Time: September 29, 2006, 6:04 am
My comment isn’t so much about butt cream as Walgreen’s employees. The teenagers who work at the one near my house are so awful - silent, surly, doing their homework at the counter (seriously - grocery bag-covered textbook and all). Are they like that by you? Every time I’m in a Walgreen’s I fall more in love with CVS.
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