I agree with you on the laundry ball. Mine is nearly empty after starting to use it in late July, and I’m pretty sure it doesn’t do a darn thing. I too am curious what they’ll do about it, if anything…I hope you’ll post the updates.

I am a WHAM that is licensed to sew Little Comet Tail patterns and I recently switched to using Zorb in all the diapers I sew. LCT patterns are very narrow through the crotch and I have to cut soakers narrower than most, so absorbency for the thickness of the material is really important. I did tests measuring the absorbency and was blown away. It even outperformed the same thickness of microfiber without the compression issues.
So then my sister and I tested it and we both fell in love. If we do two inserts of one layer of Zorb sandwiched by bamboo fleece we get at least four+ hours out of our diapers. My sisters contour soaker in a large size pocket was still not totally saturated after 6 hours. Not that we leave our kids in dipes this long, but we had to test right.
I was really hesitant to try Zorb, but I am oh so glad I did. You won’t be sorry if you try some…I have yet to see someone say it didn’t live up to their expectations.
Happy diapering…

My concern is not the absorbency of Zorb, but the overall durability. How does it do after about 3 or 4 months of washing? I wash every other day. I use pockets and g diapers and I would love to find out that Zorb is very durable. I would be happy to be a tester, but other than that I will wait until it has been out long enough to stand the test of time so to speak.

I have only been cloth diapering for about a month now and am using pocket diapers and inserts I made myself. My inserts are made of 3 layers of zorb with flannel on the outside and have held up very very well to my heavy wetting 2 year old. I did a very unscientific absorbency test comparing just one of my inserts to a pampers and the disposable only held about 8 more tablespoons of water than the insert. I would imagine if the insert had been in one of the pocket diapers it would have held at least as much as the disposable. As far as cloth diapering goes, I have only used these, so I have nothing to compare it to, but the zorb really pulls liquid in and keeps it away from my daughter’s skin. I usually can’t tell if her diaper is even wet until I pull out the insert. I am thinking that maybe 2 layers of zorb would have been plenty for anyone else who decides to make their own.

I was on the fence about buying a laundry ball. I think I’ll wait a little longer now.

I purchased 2 laundry balls after reading your first post.. I loved them for the first two weeks.. Then I noticed one ball had alittle less than the other.. So I let it go for another month, (6 weeks total) by this time 1 ball was nearly empty the other FULL.. It was weird..
I emailed them and sent pictures of my 2 balls..
And they replied with “we will send out a replacement right away..” and they did.. I recieved it a week later .. but I’m not sure they work either…
On the zorb,
I also ordered that and I think it worked about the same as microfiber.. I was dissapointed and didn’t reorder..

is it okay if it is in contact with skin? everyone seems to be using it as an insert for a pocket or as a doubler. I need to make more inserts for my dipes, but the insert is up against the skin in our diapers. I don’t want to use it if that is the case!

Now that I have been doing this a bit longer, I should update what I wrote earlier. I have also used microfiber now, and it seems to work just as well as zorb, but is thinner. microfiber is cheaper and also easier to get a hold of. They sell it in the automotive section at places like Target. All in all I like the zorb, it has held up well, but I like Microfiber a little better.

My discovery: Green Wash Ball—a no detergent laundry ball!

Let me tell you about my latest discovery. I was ease dropping on two very chatty women in line at the local market the other day. They were discussing a new way of doing laundry- a non detergent laundry ball! They mentioned that this “ball” changed their laundry lives. What a cheaper, greener alternative to doing laundry? I was extremely skeptical. How can a plastic ball without detergent clean my clothes? The concept to me was unreal!

I decided to take the women’s advice and take one home instead of my usual (heavy and not so eco-friendly) detergent. What the heck? I’ll try it out! In the long run, if this thing worked I would be saving some money. Who isn’t up to saving money in this economy?

That same evening, I started a load of my husband’s grimy gym clothes. I was bound and determined to prove the ladies from the market wrong. The outcome was amazing and against anything I have ever believed! The Green Wash Ball cleaned the gym clothes I think cleaner than I have ever seen! Okay, so the product worked for the gym clothes but I was still not 100% sold. I then tried my one year old’s formula covered, foul and dirty laundry. At this point, the product cleaned the clothes beyond my wildest dreams! I was blown away! Whatever the technology behind this little Green Wash Ball was- it worked and I was sold and amazed!

Today when I go to the market, I will be the one running around talking to any woman that would listen about this new way of doing laundry. Hopefully, I opened some skeptical housewife’s eyes to my new discovery. Please, check the product out- it changed my laundry life! In over one year the ball will have saved me over $100!