Skin Condition Resource Centers

Your baby’s sensitive skin needs special care. A baby’s skin is soft and delicate, unlike the skin of an adult. The fragile skin of a baby is just beginning to develop when it is faced with many of the same harmful substances that adults face on a daily basis. This newly born skin is especially prone to rashes and different types of skin conditions.

It can be scary for first-time parents to see an unfamiliar skin rash and not be able to recognize what the problem may be. When your baby can’t tell you what is wrong, let the Infant Skin Resource Center be your guide to healthy baby skin. Here you can learn about common baby skin conditions and how to identify more serious problems of the skin.

We human beings come in a delightful rainbow of colors, from porcelain to pink to olive and brown to darkest ebony. We are all "people of color," and we have the innate intelligence of our bodies to thank for giving each of us the perfect skin tone for our native habitat. Skin of color is now the accepted way that leading dermatologists and surgeons refer to the variation in skin tones we see in our ever-changing world. In fact, there are at least 7 different skin tones ranging from near ebony to light beige. Whether from the Mediterranean, African, Asian, South Pacific, Latin, or Native American origin, skin of color has more of the pigment called melanin.