5 Tips to Keep Your Diapers Bright & White
Keep your cloth diapers as clean and bright as the day you
bought them with a few simple tips.
1. Sunlight
Use the free energy all around you to bleach your diapers
naturally. UV (ultra violet) light can also be a powerful disinfectant,
but it is unknown how effective sunlight is in disinfecting a porous
material like cotton.
2. Lemon AND sunlight
If you are looking for a low-impact cloth diaper bleach, reach
for a lemon. Saturate the stain with lemon juice then hang the diaper
in the sun. If the stain is still visible once the diaper is dry,
saturate with lemon juice and put out in the sunlight again.
It is easier to remove a stain if you don't hot wash, which
sets stains.
3. Don't Sit Too Long
To avoid stains, don't let a dirty diaper sit too long.
- Dump or spray solids into the toilet.
- Wash more frequently.
4. Enzyme Cleaners
Spray natural enzymes on soiled diapers. Natural enzymes do
work similar to the enzymes in our gut. They break down organic matter.
In the case of soiled diapers, if you apply the enzymes to a dirty
diaper before dropping it in the diaper pail, this means the enzymes
eat away at stains and odor while a diaper sits in the pail.
Some caution that their children are sensitive to laundry
products with enzymes, but I used spray-on enzyme cleaner on diapers
for two children with no problems at all.
5. Oxygen Bleach
Oxygen bleaches will not bleach colors. They are generally
mild enough not to break down the fibers of your cloth diapers. Oxygen
bleach is made by reacting molecules with hydrogen peroxide. Most
oxygen bleaches work best in hot water.
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