Tag Archives: How to wash cloth diapers

Please Stop Me From Ordering Disposable Diapers!

April 20, 2012

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I’m going to be completely transparent with you. I am so frustrated with my cloth diapers!!  If you connect with me on anything know that I am in the trenches with you.  Just because I have this cloth diaper information site, wrote a super detailed cloth diaper book and now have a cloth diaper forum [...]

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How To Wash Cloth Diapers In A Foreign Country

February 2, 2012

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The following guest post was written by Gypsy Momma I have used cloth diapers about 90% of the time since my now fourteen month old daughter was born. I also spend 80-90% traveling internationally with my baby for my own and my husband’s work and for leisure to places such as Paraguay, South Africa, Lebanon, [...]

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Do You Line Dry Your Cloth Diapers?

October 3, 2011

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I am so spoiled. For thousands of years women hand scrubbed the laundry and hung it out to dry. What do I with my laundry? Dump it in the washer never stopping to consider that something may need to be spot treated. Then, toss everything in the dryer rarely taking time to pull out the [...]

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Cloth Diaper Q&A Vol 5: Detergents

June 14, 2011

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Autumn, What is the best (yet good on the wallet) laundry detergent to use on cloth diapers? ~Jessica S. In the 6 years (eep!) I have been cloth diapering the same questions are still being asked over and over. Arguably, the top question is what detergent is best for cloth diapers. There are as many [...]

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Cloth Diaper Q & A Volume 1

December 4, 2010

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I get dozens of questions via email and comments daily. I try my best to answer them promptly but sometimes life gets in the way and days go by. In an effort to allow you to help each other and to give more attention to these great questions, I am starting a new series. Cloth [...]

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Washing Cloth Diapers in a Front Loader

May 17, 2010

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I anticipated much struggle.  I’ve read the bazillions of stories of moms saying they wish they had a top loader just for their cloth diapers. I went back and forth over whether to buy a TL or FL when my old-trusty died. In the end, a FL made more sense (and they looked prettier ). [...]

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Update to my laundry experiment. Do you smell something?

March 30, 2010

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I invited you to join my laundry experiment back in late February.  I was committed. I was willing to bite the bullet for the sake of my readers.  You know, be all sacrificial and spare you the pain of wasting money.  Or, there was the possibility that I’d stumble upon the most natural way to [...]

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Rockin Green Hard Rock Giveaway!

March 23, 2010

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**contest closed** For a lot of you Hard Rock is going to be the answer to many, many prayers. Only those who have hard water know the headache that comes with doing laundry. The problem with hard water is the mineral content.  Those minerals bind to your clothing fibers and are not broken up by [...]

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Cloth Diapers Clean as a Whistle

January 23, 2010

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While I was on vacation this past week I saw a video posted on Facebook that I couldn’t wait to get home and share with you! I don’t endorse any one detergent as “the” cloth diaper detergent.  However, Kim of Rockin Green Soap is doing a fantastic job of proving the efficacy of her formula. [...]

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Does Rockin Green Cloth Diaper Detergent Work?

November 22, 2009

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This past summer I introduced you to Rockin Green Cloth Diaper Detergent.  Kim kindly sent me some samples and I eagerly used them all up.  I was pleased: clothes smelled clean, cloth diapers smelled clean, no rashes occurred… two thumbs up. However, after the samples were gone I went back to using my Kirkland’s Environmentally [...]

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