Ok, so I remember reading a thread awhile back about someone getting stink out of their diapers....they called the diaper company and got good advice? Now I forget what that advice was. Prego brain, ftw!
I bought a whole cloth stash for my 2 and 3 yo after we moved into a house with washer dryer hookups (in our previous place, we didn't have any and laundry was too much of a nightmare to do cloth). Anyway, after a short time the diapers got a horrific ammonia smell once peed in. I couldn't get it out no matter what I did! I thought it was just the smell of pee, but their pee really doesn't stink like that otherwise. I know that for sure now that my oldest is fully PT'd. The smell was so bad I could smell it from a room away through a zipped wetbag.
I was using Biokleen at the time, so I am thinking that was the problem? Build up? I tried: stripping with dish soap (more than once), multiple rinses and washes, baking soda, vinegar (in varying amounts), extra soap, less soap, soap nuts instead of detergent, no detergent at all, Bac-Out in copious amounts...
So...what was that miracle stink removing system someone had? And, what soap should I switch to for my diaper laundry. I was thinking of doing Planet since it's generally recommended and easy to get. I want to avoid needing a detergent I can only get online.
I ended up giving up and putting my kids back in sposies, which pains me on so many levels. It's also hard becuase my husband is not supportive of cloth at all, and he was spoiled by the sposie using year we lived in our old apartment. Anyhow, I really want to get my now almost 3 year old back into cloth. She's starting to potty train and I think it could really help her learn when she has to go. She's very willing to sit on the potty but she doesn't seem to realize when she has to go beforehand.
TIA!
I bought a whole cloth stash for my 2 and 3 yo after we moved into a house with washer dryer hookups (in our previous place, we didn't have any and laundry was too much of a nightmare to do cloth). Anyway, after a short time the diapers got a horrific ammonia smell once peed in. I couldn't get it out no matter what I did! I thought it was just the smell of pee, but their pee really doesn't stink like that otherwise. I know that for sure now that my oldest is fully PT'd. The smell was so bad I could smell it from a room away through a zipped wetbag.
I was using Biokleen at the time, so I am thinking that was the problem? Build up? I tried: stripping with dish soap (more than once), multiple rinses and washes, baking soda, vinegar (in varying amounts), extra soap, less soap, soap nuts instead of detergent, no detergent at all, Bac-Out in copious amounts...
So...what was that miracle stink removing system someone had? And, what soap should I switch to for my diaper laundry. I was thinking of doing Planet since it's generally recommended and easy to get. I want to avoid needing a detergent I can only get online.
I ended up giving up and putting my kids back in sposies, which pains me on so many levels. It's also hard becuase my husband is not supportive of cloth at all, and he was spoiled by the sposie using year we lived in our old apartment. Anyhow, I really want to get my now almost 3 year old back into cloth. She's starting to potty train and I think it could really help her learn when she has to go. She's very willing to sit on the potty but she doesn't seem to realize when she has to go beforehand.
TIA!
