Washing

What do you wash with? (your nappies that is)
I have been washing with soapnuts which have been good but I do like to use a powder on occassion just to give it a bit of an extra wash. I was thinking maybe frontlaoder eco laudry powder.

I was using soap nuts too, but find the nappies get a bit smelly - and I strip them but they didnt seem to smell nice for long.
Im now using Ecostore powder and they smell great - but am i causing damage do you think? I use itti bittis

I use ecostore with our nappies, haven't noticed anything noticeably bad happen (have a couple of itti bittis)
Argh the smell - it's hideous at times.. basically I have been doing soak for 4 hours in napisan then rinse.. then hot wash, then another rinse and out in sun for the day.
Doing this every few months. Seems to help quite a bit. HTH

for those with smelly nappies, have you tried that Canestan rinse - customers swear by that to help kill bacteria and get rid of smells. You can use it with Soapnuts as well

I find if my itti's are smelling either rinsing them really well works or a rinse in cannestan

Love amolin! With the odd canestan rinse now and again

I do a rinse cycle first then wash with ecostore powder. They seem to come up nice and clean and smelling good. I try to dry them in the sun - when we have some!

I would only Napisan if absolutely needed, the sun will get out most staining. I wouldn't recommend soaking minky in napisan, so if you were going to do itti bitti SIO's, then just soak the inners.

There is so much conflicting info out there now re washing powders etc. My main bit of advice would be to stay away from any powders/liquids with enzymes.

I used persil sensitive & some of my itti bitti's fell apart (the bamboo layer), so was told it was probably the persil & to use ecostore. Same thing has happened again, so I am none the wiser. I don't know whether it's my washing machine, whether I dry pail them too long between washes, or whether it's the strength of the wee on them. Never had any problems with any other nappies though. Anyway, re the smell, I've found using either Canestan or Dettol rinse in the rinse cycle works wonders.

Nic01 wrote: I used persil sensitive & some of my itti bitti's fell apart (the bamboo layer), so was told it was probably the persil & to use ecostore. Same thing has happened again, so I am none the wiser. I don't know whether it's my washing machine, whether I dry pail them too long between washes, or whether it's the strength of the wee on them. Never had any problems with any other nappies though. Anyway, re the smell, I've found using either Canestan or Dettol rinse in the rinse cycle works wonders.

The strength of the wee, and especially while teething can be an issue on bamboo. I would suggest to always rinse the nappies immediately after use if your baby is teething and you are using bamboo and wash regularly. This has happened to others with other bamboo nappy brands, so we know it is not just an issue with itti bitti.

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