Safe Lotions To Use During Pregnancy. It’s best to choose 100% natural and botanical ingredients and avoid toxic chemicals like parabens, sulphates, phthalates, mineral oils and retinoids during pregnancy. Mederma’s stretch marks therapy cream helps prevent stretch marks and has been clinically tested as safe to use during pregnancy, starting in the second trimester.
If you've been using a skin cream that contains a retinoid, don't panic. Vitamin a, retinoic acid, retinyl palmitate, retinaldehyde, adapalene, tretinoin, tazarotene and isotretinoin. And oral retinoids, such as isotretinoin (a prescription acne treatment previously sold under the brand name accutane), are known to cause birth defects.