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kellverona 
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Posted: 30 May 2006 at 12:09pm |
Do you have to wash new baby clothes be4 they wear them?? What do you recommend washing them with. The clothes look so cute new. Im worried they will go all ratty looking. Any ideas??
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nikkitheknitter
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Posted: 30 May 2006 at 12:14pm |
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Yep, wash before putting them on babe and do it with only 1/2 the amount of powder you'd normally use or with a sensitive powder.
They get rashes rather easily... both from new clothes and from too much washing powder! Complicated little buggers they are.
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Posted: 30 May 2006 at 12:28pm |
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I washed all my baby clothes before Maya was born in Lux flakes.
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KH25
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Posted: 30 May 2006 at 12:30pm |
I will be washing all mine before bubs wears them. I have bought some Lux flakes as I thought these were the only thing you can use but have since heard of some other ones like Ecostore which would probably be alot easier as I can't be bothered fartassing around dissolving the lux flakes before they go in the machine 
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Posted: 30 May 2006 at 12:32pm |
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i used kindness, or another wool/delicate wash liquid for all xanthes clothes, probably washed her stuff seperate for about a year or more. tried lux flakes once, what an arse of a job that was!!!
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Posted: 30 May 2006 at 1:05pm |
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Amolin Senistive is good too. We use it for Maya. I think you can only get it at Foodtown and Woolies, but it is a liquid not a powder which is good.
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Posted: 30 May 2006 at 1:07pm |
Yeh i just did ELlas with lux flakes its a little tedious but didnt take to long 
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Posted: 30 May 2006 at 1:13pm |
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I started off with Lux Flakes with Sean (10 years ago *sigh*) but moved on to Persil sensitive with Andrew. It was much easier and did the trick.
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Posted: 30 May 2006 at 1:22pm |
I washed every thing before Zaara was born and I washed it with Napisan (I thought because it was milder.....he he ha h NOT) But thankfully she never had any reaction to it.
I wont put any thing on her untill its been washed. Same goes for all her toys...specially because she puts every thing in her mouth now! 
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Posted: 30 May 2006 at 1:32pm |
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we wash all Rhiannons stuff with 1/4 capful of napisan, and she has no problems with it.
We wash everything first before she wears it.
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Posted: 30 May 2006 at 3:07pm |
Thank God I am not the only one!!! 
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Posted: 30 May 2006 at 3:09pm |
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i washed everything normally in persil, i never changed washing powder at all.
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Posted: 30 May 2006 at 3:24pm |
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I have sensitive skin so we use Persil Sensitive anyways. I just washed a whole heap of stuff, mostly to get the musty shop smell out of the new stuff and with the hand-me-downs I wanted to make sure there was no powder residue from the last person so I washed them in Eco Store powder (says it removes residue - yes I believe everything I read LOL)
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Posted: 30 May 2006 at 3:43pm |
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I washed everything, we just use persil, I also use a fab softener and napisan. Washing is a great idea, as most clothes come from china and are all sprayed with pestcides etc on arrival into the country to kill any "travellers".
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Posted: 30 May 2006 at 4:00pm |
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yeah definitely wash baby clothes before putting them on baby, my mum advised me to wash them inside out to keep them looking nice and new. it pays to seperate colours with new stuff too. (my brother learned that one the hard way and his daughter was quite colouful looking for the first few months!)
we just used persil on ella's stuff when she was born and she had no probs with skin reactions. like nikki said though, i used half of what they reccomend when washing her stuff for the first 6 months or so.
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Posted: 30 May 2006 at 4:04pm |
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I washed everything first, but didn't worry about using different laundry powder.
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Posted: 30 May 2006 at 4:32pm |
I prewashed everything using Persil sensitive and still do prewash everything new. Mind you I do this for mine and Peters things too...just to get rsidual dyes and stuff out. Also - who knows who has already tried them on! 
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Posted: 30 May 2006 at 4:33pm |
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I prewash new stuff - but I'm not all gung-ho about the cleanliness thing any more - it seems that trying to sterilise everything for a kid that will pick dead bugs and leaves up off the ground in the park is a bit redundant.
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Posted: 30 May 2006 at 4:34pm |
I hear you on the sterilising front  I would have to sterilise EVERYTHING in the world CONSTANTLY, LOL, Joey puts anythning and everything in his mouth
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Posted: 30 May 2006 at 4:36pm |
hehe yeah i stopped sterilising everything after i saw ella eat a handful of dirt out of a potplant at my mums!
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