If I had to
add diaper loads in there it would AT LEAST double, completely cancelling out any savings from cloth diapering...
Not exact matches
If you choose to use bleach you can
add 1/2 cup bleach to a regular
load of
diapers.
How would you
add the tea tree oil to the
diapers in a front
loading machine and in what quantity?
How to use bleach:
Add 1/3 cup of bleach to one full
load of clean
diapers and wash on hot / warm without detergent.
Let sit overnight, and
add to your next cloth
diaper load.
I
added 1/4 cup of bleach to the wash (with a full
load of
diapers) so my pads would be super clean after my postpartum bleeding ended.
How much would you normally
add to a
load of
diapers?
If your machine can't do that, then
add a few wet towels into your
diaper load.
My sister said she
adds a scoop of Oxyclean in addition to the Nellies when she washes barn clothes, but otherwise uses only a scoop of Nellies per
load for everything - towels, dress clothes, kids clothes, jeans, cloth
diapers, and everything!
Using cloth
diapers does
add one
load of laundry to my schedule every other day.
Please take care to RINSE WELL before
adding these
diapers back into your washer
loads, so that all the suds created by dish soap doesn't damage your washer.
You can also do a pre-soak of your
diapers in a bucket, then
add the
diapers while soaking wet — this serves the dual purpose of reducing the «biological
load» in the wash, and makes the
load seem heavier to the machine sensors.
Add in 5 minutes for «washer / dryer» time where I dump the
diapers in and then switch them over, and I'm still under the 15 minutes it would take me just to GET to the store, not to mention the time it would take to
load up the kids, wander around the store, and get back home.
More rinses, less
diapers in a
load,
adding water: this was all a benefit to my
diapers.
For a medium
load of
diapers in a top loader OR a large
load of
diapers in an hE machine you would
add in 1/4 cup of bleach to a trusted bleach dispenser
For a large
load of
diapers in a top loader you will
add in 1/2 a cup of bleach to a trusted bleach dispenser.
All three videos show the exact same
diaper load of 30 size small yellow edge prefolds washing with one bright dish towel
added to help you see the agitation more easily.
for
adding towels try to use smaller hand towels, or if you don't mind ruining some old towels then cut them up into thirds, if you use big towels to bulk up your
load the
diapers will get trapped and wrapped up inside of them and they won't get properly clean, so always aim for smaller peices of laundry to bulk up the
load.
If you have an HE machine and it produces water based on the weight of the
load, then
adding a wet towel to your
diaper wash should trick the machine into
adding more water.
- if you would like to prep your
diapers before use, there's no need to wash them separately — just
add them in with your regular
diaper load.
Adding in $ 50 in cloth
diaper detergent and just under one dollar per
load in an HE washer and dryer is $ 1,047 over three years.
In the cold rinse step (before the hot soapy wash), we
add a tablespoon of bleach for a large
load of
diapers in our top -
loading washer.
Diapers should only
add a
load a week.
I
add a squirt of blue Dawn dish soap to my
load of dirty cloth
diapers and run it on a warm rinse cycle.
Here are some tricks to
adding water to your HE
diaper load:
Another option is to
add your natural fiber
diapers to another
load of clothing laundry for their first wash cycle.
Even folding a full
load of flats and stuffing pocket
diapers only takes 7 minutes (yes I timed it) so it doesn't
add a lot to your laundry routine, but sometimes in any given week it doesn't happen right away — and that's okay.
Simply
add 1/4 cup of white distilled vinegar to the final rinse cycle of your
diaper wash, or if you have a top -
loading washer,
add 1/4 cup of vinegar to a downy rinse ball and throw it in the wash - it will automatically open in the rinse cycle.
Consider occasionally
adding a sanitizer to you
diaper load.
When planned right, cloth
diapers should
add only two more
loads of laundry per week.
Not only do I deodorize my shoes with it, but I use it to get rid of stinky odors (aka: dirty
diapers) in my daughter's room, I
add it to really dirty
loads of laundry, and I even use it in a spray to keep those pesky bugs away when I'm outside!