Inexpensive Lambskin - Page 2

[Grayson's Mom]

Anyone with an Ikea near them? Want to hook me up with a $20 sheepskin or two? Of course, I would also cover the shipping and all that jazz...
Please? : Pretty Please?

Also, for those of you who wouldn't mind paying more than I would like, I found this site. $55 with free shipping... http://www.ecowool.com/product/1436

[MamaBirdEmma]

I don't know if you are going to use the lambskin for the baby's bed or if you are using it on the floor, but I came across a lambskin pad with rubber backing (it's meant for dog crates) in a store recently for under $30 for 30"x40"... I am going to use it to cosy up a little corner for my little ones. Though it is not as plush as the O-Wool one I bought for my baby's bed, it is quite soft and will be much nicer for my little ones than the tile!

http://www.ablackhorse.com/productca...dproduct=93920

[mommabeehilly]

Anyone have the ebay lambskins? Comments?

I am trying to figure out a few more for our household and would love feedback.

Oh and I want to line DD's car seat and new babe's car seat with one...anyone done this? Have thoughts?

TIA!

[boatbaby]

We got ours at a local sheep & wool fest and it's fabulous! It was only about $30, is a very generous size, and the baby just loves it and sleeps like crazy when I lay her down in it. I don't know how I ever did without one!

I hope you find one you like soon!

[dogretro]

You absolutely should NOT line a car seat w/ anything. Yes, I did spend time in the past on the family safety forum Putting things in the car seat will cause you to have to loosen the straps to fit your kid in & that could be bad during a crash. If you want way more info on this, visit family safety.

Our lambskin is from Ikea & I don't remember it costing $40, although it could have. Bought it last Christmas as part of our gift of a new down comforter & cover. Had it to lay on the foot of the bed for the cats so they wouldn't mess up the new blanket. The cats are gone now, so it's for the kids. They barely use it, but the cats loved it!

[Melaniee]

I do think they are up to $40 now at Ikea. I had last bought one about 5 years ago and then when I went this summer to get one for Dd's class I remember thinking "whoa, they've gone up!" LOL. They have HUGE ones at Costco (and Ikea) right now. I think for over $100.

[Astrid1024]

We got our sheepskin from Satara which has a brick and mortar store here. It's mimosa tanned and it was about $100 - it was important to me to paywhat had to for the mimosa tanning to avoid chemicals and arsenic in the processing. I'm not sure how Ikea or the ones from ebay are processed, but since my babe lays on it every night, I was not willing to take any chances.

From this link

"Toxic Heavy Metal: Arsenic

Extremely poisonous as well as colorless and odorless, arsenic can enter the body through the mouth, lungs and skin. Arsenic is the most common cause of acute heavy metal poisoning in adults. Arsenic is released into the environment by the smelting process of copper, zinc, and lead, as well as by the manufacturing of chemicals and glasses. Arsenic is found in water supplies worldwide with exposure of marine life. It affects the blood, kidneys, and central nervous, digestive, and skin systems.

Arsenic exposure: beer, chemical processing plants, cigarette smoke, coal combustion, drinking water, fungicides, meats and seafood, metal foundries, ore smelting plants, paints, pesticides, polluted air, rat poisoning, salt – table, seafood from coastal waters – oysters, shrimp, muscles, specialty glass products, water – drinking, weed killers, and wood preservatives. Workers in metal smelters, coal burning plants, manufacture of semiconductors, pesticides, opal glass, pharmaceuticals, paint, leather tanning, and taxidermists.

[mommabeehilly]

boatbaby- So jealous of the local festival. Lovely. Wish we had something of the like locally. Glad to hear that the LO is loving the lamby. They are so sweet. DD loves hers still.

dogretro- Interesting. I will have to do more reading. Thanks. I wonder what the verdict is on something like this: https://www.snugglewool.com/shop/cat...hp?category=16

Astrid1024- I did contact the ebay seller and asked what they process with. Have not heard back. We have a mimosa cured lamby for DD. I wouldn't do anything else for under a sleeping babe either. I am looking for a few lamb skins to cover some chairs and the like. So my standards are a little less...but only a little .

[dogretro]

Originally Posted by mommabeehilly

dogretro- Interesting. I will have to do more reading. Thanks. I wonder what the verdict is on something like this: https://www.snugglewool.com/shop/cat...hp?category=16

The verdict is going to be NO. You are not supposed to put anything in the seat that goes between your child and the seat.

I would not have intentionally bought an Ikea lambskin for my baby, but since I already had it for the cats (& it was not heavily used by them), I was not going to waste it or spend $100 on a new one.

[mommabeehilly]

Originally Posted by dogretro

The verdict is going to be NO. You are not supposed to put anything in the seat that goes between your child and the seat.

Yup, I asked there too and that's what they said too. Thanks.

[counterGOPI]

Ok ladies what would you say to this (It's a response I got about a lamby we already have):
Sheepskin Tanning process and chemicals – Infant Care Products



The Process



Raw stock is now 100% UK origin.
Preservation by Hide Markets is with common salt but may have addition of 2% Boric Acid to combat putrefaction which starts with a ‘halophilic bacteria’ showing as ‘Red Heat’ as a precursor to wool slip.
Sheepskins are washed twice in a warm water solution containing common salt, non-ionic detergent and a small quantity of proteolytic enzyme to assist ‘opening up’ of the pelt.
When the pelt is flaccid, connective tissue and fat lumps are mechanically removed using a spirally wound, sharp cylindered fleshing machine.
Pickling with dilute Sulphuric Acid in brine then stabilizes the skin and prepares the protein for tanning.
Tanning is predominantly undertaken using re-cyclable trivalent Chromium solution together with a small quantity of Aluminium Sulphate. This combination produces high performance leather capable of withstanding high temperature washing and dyeing. Skins are thoroughly rinsed after tanning to remove any unbound chemicals.
Natural fat (tallow) remains in the structure of the skin until it is dried. To avoid the fat turning rancid, it is extracted using chlorinated hydrocarbons in enclosed dry-cleaning machines.
Wool dyeing takes place in hot water with selected textile dyes and a leveling agent after replacing some of the lost natural fat with stable synthetic oil. The dyes are fixed with weak Formic acid before a final rinse. Any remaining free salt is removed in this process.
No further chemical treatments are involved.
Skins are stretched and dried, seasoned with water and then softened mechanically. The wool is polished with dry, hot rotating irons and sheared to a consistent height.
After trimming to shape, the skins are vacuumed by hand to remove any leather or wool dust.
Sanitisation is achieved by the aggressive tanning and degreasing systems.




Standards for the use of leather in infant care are covered by regulations for harness and toy applications. The principal difference between these two categories is the possibility of ingesting leather – extractability of chemical elements from a tanned skin are different between chewing and swallowing due to the properties of saliva versus stomach acids.

[mama2Elia]

We got two of them from Ikea. One of them we put in front of the little play kitchen, and one of them we put on the wood floor next to my sweeties toddler bed. They have held up extreamly well- I shake them out every few months and other than that don't have to do anything with them (if we were laying on them, or had a baby crawling around on them I might clean them more often though!)

[TulsiLeaf]

Originally Posted by counterGOPI

Ok ladies what would you say to this (It's a response I got about a lamby we already have):
Sheepskin Tanning process and chemicals – Infant Care Products



The Process



Raw stock is now 100% UK origin.
Preservation by Hide Markets is with common salt but may have addition of 2% Boric Acid to combat putrefaction which starts with a ‘halophilic bacteria’ showing as ‘Red Heat’ as a precursor to wool slip.
Sheepskins are washed twice in a warm water solution containing common salt, non-ionic detergent and a small quantity of proteolytic enzyme to assist ‘opening up’ of the pelt.
When the pelt is flaccid, connective tissue and fat lumps are mechanically removed using a spirally wound, sharp cylindered fleshing machine.
Pickling with dilute Sulphuric Acid in brine then stabilizes the skin and prepares the protein for tanning.
Tanning is predominantly undertaken using re-cyclable trivalent Chromium solution together with a small quantity of Aluminium Sulphate. This combination produces high performance leather capable of withstanding high temperature washing and dyeing. Skins are thoroughly rinsed after tanning to remove any unbound chemicals.
Natural fat (tallow) remains in the structure of the skin until it is dried. To avoid the fat turning rancid, it is extracted using chlorinated hydrocarbons in enclosed dry-cleaning machines.
Wool dyeing takes place in hot water with selected textile dyes and a leveling agent after replacing some of the lost natural fat with stable synthetic oil. The dyes are fixed with weak Formic acid before a final rinse. Any remaining free salt is removed in this process.
No further chemical treatments are involved.
Skins are stretched and dried, seasoned with water and then softened mechanically. The wool is polished with dry, hot rotating irons and sheared to a consistent height.
After trimming to shape, the skins are vacuumed by hand to remove any leather or wool dust.
Sanitisation is achieved by the aggressive tanning and degreasing systems.




Standards for the use of leather in infant care are covered by regulations for harness and toy applications. The principal difference between these two categories is the possibility of ingesting leather – extractability of chemical elements from a tanned skin are different between chewing and swallowing due to the properties of saliva versus stomach acids.

I wonder if there are any ways that they make a blanket similiar in nature, but without killing the animal. I like the effect of it, but I dunno if I could personally do an animal skin like that.

[mamavegan]

Originally Posted by TulsiLeaf

I wonder if there are any ways that they make a blanket similiar in nature, but without killing the animal. I like the effect of it, but I dunno if I could personally do an animal skin like that.

The one I made here is nice and soft. It's not as soft as the real thing, but I'll take a little less softness instead of the life of the sheep. The tutorial is over at YHL and is directly linked in my blog post. HTH

[TulsiLeaf]

Originally Posted by mamavegan

The one I made here is nice and soft. It's not as soft as the real thing, but I'll take a little less softness instead of the life of the sheep. The tutorial is over at YHL and is directly linked in my blog post. HTH

thats cute, the only thing is that synthetic fibers like those make my daughter itch.
I just can't get over the sheeps skin being there. We are trying to cut down on the amount of leathery type products we use anyways.