Also, try soaking your diapers before washing them, especially if you are having a problem
with urine residue.
In high efficiency machines, the challenge can be that because the machines use very little water, you can actually have the hard water mineral deposits and
urine residues build up in your fabrics, especially if your water isn't treated with a softening agent that keeps the minerals in the water — and the dirt!
Author and pediatrician Carla Natterson writes in her book, «Worry Proof,» that the crystals you see on your baby's skin after a diaper change may not be sodium polyacrylate at all, but
dehydrated urine residue.
Among other differences that emerged in the NHANES analysis:
urine residues of BPA decreased with increasing household income and varied somewhat with ethnicity (with Mexican - Americans having the lowest average values, blacks the highest, and white's values in between).
A good way to detect previously soiled areas is by using an ultraviolet light;
urine residues not visible to the human eye will fluoresce under the light.
Cloth diapers
with urine residues can cause diaper rashes, because babies» skin is sensitive to ammonia.
If you don't use enough detergent, you will end up with
urine residues - this causes stinky diapers.
It's important that they are clean, because residues from detergent or other laundry products can reduce absorbency or even cause diapers to repel, and
urine residues will cause stinky diapers!
, we had experienced both detergent residues and
urine residues.
Urine residues may also be caused if you don't use enough detergent.
Because
urine residues are caused by not enough soap, or not enough water to rinse clean, there are two ways to avoid urine residues:
The bulk and tight layers also sometimes made AIO cloth diapers prone to detergent and
urine residues.
We have had
urine residue and never had to buy a special product, but it might make the experience of cleaning them faster and easier for you!
If your diapers have
a urine residue, the easiest way to fix them is to run several hot water washes with as much water as you can add to the machine.
If they are stinky, you may have a detergent residue, or
a urine residue if you are not using enough water.
Cloth diapers with
urine residue will smell like ammonia when your baby pees in them.
To make them night worthy, manufacturers increased the absorbency of fitted diapers by adding additional layers of fabric in the soaker zone - which increased bulk, drying time, and susceptibility of the diaper to
urine residues (and eventual stinks).
Unless you are confident of their history, you should also strip them to remove any detergent, mineral, or
urine residues that may have been left in them.
OPTION 1: Wash with a wool bar Rinse the wool in lukewarm water to remove
any urine residue.
If you leave
any urine residue uncleaned, it's almost guaranteed that your cat will return and re-soil the area.