Baby powder vs. baby lotion

So I've turned against landslide tradition and have never once used baby powder. I use organic lotion on Charlotte's bottom, and give her a light all-over coating after bath time. I'm huge on the whole organic, natural thing. My husband has got some darn awful allergies, and turned me on to this. Natural products hardly ever seem to bother him, so being a paranoid mother, I figure this is the safest route for Charlotte. A lot of baby powders are scented, and I worry especially about a reaction to the scents. What exactly are in these scents? Of course not all baby powers are specially scented, but if they aren't, they've got that smell we all know. And then I wonder, how the heck do they make that smell? What exactly's in this stuff? It's pretty hard to find an all natural baby powder. It's a chemically derived substance, after all. Have people been using baby powder on baby's tushies since the dawn of time? Sure. Have babies been getting rashes and reactions down there for just as long? You betcha. So whose to say baby powder is the go-to-product for a chafe free baby bottom? So I found a lotion with all natural ingredients (I can list the brand name, but have tried several and they all work about as well. None of them are really "stand-outs.") Charlotte has not had a single rash. She tolerates a soiled diaper exceptionally well, so she's got to be pretty comfortable down there. My mother-in-law thinks I'm out of my gourd for not using baby powder. But the lotion works awesome, and it's all natural. I say, skip the powder. A lubricated heinee is a happy heinee.