Friday, January 30, 2009

How I Wash Cloth Diapers

Washing cloth diapers is dont TOTALLY different by everyone who has them! Here is my routine. It seems complicated but once you get used to it it's not bad. I wash about every other day. I have a top load washing machine.

This is the link for the simply clean detergent that I use: www.simplycleanok.com (try monkey farts sent - it smells good and my kids love the name!!)

For washes during the week I;
cold rinse w/ 1 tbsp Simply Clean
Hot wash w/ 2 tbsp Simply Clean
Cold rinse again

On weekends I wash the diapers with 1/4 cup REGULAR tide and no simply clean. It seems to get them just a little cleaner but you do need to do an extra rinse to make sure to get it all out.

On the first of every month I "strip" all my inserts. You can do this if they get stinky or if they start to smell like ammonia. I do a cold rinse, then a hot wash with a 1/2 - full cup tide and a full cup bleach. Then three - four rinses to make sure to get all the bleach out so it does not irritate my kids bottoms.

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