Help With Washing Cloth Diapers?
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 at
11:02 am
How do you wash your cloth diapers, especially if you use more than one kind. I am so confused. I have bum genius 3.0 one size diapers and a happy heiny, and an getting some prefolds with covers as well. The two pocket diapers came today, but have conflicting washing instructions. One says to use a natural soap or an “all free” detergent, and the other says specifically not to use a natural soap or all free detergent, just to use regular tide?? Any help??
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I use a squirt of Dawn non-concentrated diswashing detergent on mine. Sounds strange, but it works!
I wash all of our diapers (pockets, prefolds, flats, and covers together). I do a cold rinse with baking soda. Then a hot wash with a quirt of Dawn dish soap (regular, not concentrated), followed by an extra rinse.
I used Purex Free and Clear as recommended by Wildflower Diapers. Always worked fine for me with all types of diapers. Good luck.
wash the bum genius’s in one wash and the happy heiny in another wash.
just remember which ones you’re washing so that you don’t mess them up.
best of luck!
IDK.
My dear departed mother used her home made lye soap.
All my brothers and sisters, and I have tough butts.
What they are saying is essentially the same — although it is confusing. You don’t want a detergent with chemical irritants (like the optical whiteners, scents, etc., included in most “regular” brands) or enzymes and oils (which you’ll find in a lot of “natural” detergents like Bio-Kleen). You also don’t want to use anything that is technically soap.
My favorite for pocket diapers — and everything else, actually — is Charlie’s Soap (which is not, btw, “soap”); it gets the fleece clean better than anything else I’ve tried. Second to that is good ol’ Tide.
Whatever you choose, just remember to use as little as possible and rinse, rinse, rinse.
Edit: By “ALL free,” they are referring specifically to the ALL brand detergents.
just use some woolite
it wont hurt