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    Posted: 01 October 2007 at 2:00pm
I am finding that my MCN and inserts are starting to smell a bit of urine (that anomiea(sp??) smell) I don't use much washing powder (about 1/2 scoop full load)

So how do you get them smelling nice. Do you put anything in with the wash to deordourize them?
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One of Alex's nappies was smelly, so I just used detol (the in wash stuff) in the wash and now it smells good again. (I washed it again afterwards though, as I didnt want the detol to cause a rash)

I was going to get some tea tree oil as I heard that was good for keeping them smelling nice. Haven't tried it yet though.
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We use the Dettol rinse as well and the nappies smell great (like eucyluptus (sp?)). Sam has terrible exczema and it doesn't cause a rash at all and we don't rinse them again after using it I forgot to put it in a load the other day and they smelled horrible even after being on the line all day in the sun

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I put white vinegar in our wash, cause it's cheap and still does the job of keeping our nappies nice n fresh.
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Our nappies have been smelling real bad lately too which i think is from Astins thrush and i have been putting teatree oil in but i dont like the smell so i shall try the detol or white vinegar
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Sometimes naps get washing powder build up on them which seems to react with urine and cause a truly horrible smell.

So you need to strip them... to do this you do a hot wash with 1/2 a cup of vinegar and then a hot rinse with baking soda and then another rinse (of whatever temp) after that.

I found I needed to do a strip once every few months when the nappies had been in use for quite a while. But my nappies were thrashed as I only had about 9 of them.

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I soaked mine yesterday in a bucket of hot water with vinegar & baking soda for about 2 hours and then just did a normal cold wash and the smell was gone
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