I’ve been rather dissatisfied with my laundry detergent lately. I started out using Purex Free and Clear and that was fine, if unremarkable. I tried regular Tide for a while before I switched to the “Seven Signs” Tide (the one in the orange bottle). And that worked fine too. But lately I’ve grown frustrated with [...]
It is a side-bonus to cloth diapering that my children have had far less rashes since I started using cloth. When my oldest was a baby, he had rashes all the time and they were BAD rashes. I became familiar with all the different creams and ointments out there and used them all. All the [...]
Depending on your personal tastes, stains can become the bain of any cloth diaperer’s existance. I generally am not a big stain fighter myself, but I like to be able to resell some of the diapers I have. And you get better resale when the diapers are stain free.
Still, stains are a fact of life [...]
Everyone who gets into using cloth diapers learnes one thing right off the bat regarding diaper laundry: DO NOT USE FABRIC SOFTENER. It can cause buildup in your diapers, which will lead to stink; it can coat the surfaces of your diapers, causing them to repel instead of absorb liquid. It is BAD JUJU.
So that’s [...]
