Care And Clean
Tweet Pin It . Cloth diapers are so easy to use, but there is one really tricky spot that I often am asked about: ammonia in toddler diapers. This is a tricky beast with no single solution, but lots of things to try. We dealt with ammonia in our daughter’s diapers and I tried everything, [...]
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Tweet Pin It How do you know if your cover needs lanolizing? When you wash it, press it into the water. Look for the following signs: If wool sits on top of the water and has little pools of water gathering on top – it does not need lanolizing. If wool sits on [...]
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Tweet Pin It Lavendar and tea tree oils are popular natural ingredients used in many products including diaper care products by cloth diapering parents. However, in the news recently, these two products have been found to, in rare cases, temporarily affect the hormonal balance on young boys. Diaper Pin recommends that parents educate themselves [...]
Tweet Pin It The SDA (Soap and Detergent Association) logically states: “To understand what is needed to achieve effective cleaning, it is helpful to have a basic knowledge of the soap and detergent chemistry.”(1) Now, this isn’t going to be a lesson in Chemistry – hopefully, you’ve already made that rite of passage in high [...]
Tweet Pin It You may be wondering if the use of distilled white vinegar is truly essential in your cloth diaper wash. After all, there seems to be such a good amount to remember as it is, and if you can cut something out of the routine, vinegar seems to be the most viable [...]
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Tweet Pin It How to care for the cover I recommend washing the cover by hand after several weeks of wearing unless it gets soiled. Wool will not develop a smell, because of its resistance to odor and rash causing bacteria so the cover doesn’t need to be washed every time it gets wet. You [...]
Tweet Pin It You carefully chose the best detergent to use for your baby’s clothing…so you thought. You got a dye free, fragrance free detergent that claims to be tested for sensitive skin. But you didn’t know to look out for “whitening enzymes”. 3 women found this out the hard way when they tried [...]
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