Cloth Wipes

Cloth diapers with disposable wipes makes little sense to me.  You clean off your baby, throw the diaper in a bag till wash day, and since you can’t flush wipes, you then throw a disposable wipe in the trash can. Obviously dirty baby wipes make for a stinky trash can. Who wants to be hit in the face with poop smell every time they throw something away? I know I don’t. Also, we don’t have garbage pick up here on campus so we have to take the trash to the dumpster. We aren’t always able to drive the trash to the dumpster right away so sometimes we have a couple of bags of trash sitting in the house till we can get to there. So trash bags filled with dirty wipes is not the best option.

The obvious solution to this problem- Use cloth wipes and wipe solution. 

This is so much easier than using the cloth diaper, disposable wipe combo. When changing a baby, I spray a cloth wipe with wipe solution,  wipe them down with the cloth wipe, put it in the diaper and stick in my bag till wash day.  No stinky trash. 

The wipe solution is cheap and easy to make. You only need 4 things. Baby oil, baby wash or shampoo, a spay bottle and water.

Even if you don’t have these things on hand, it is still cheaper to buy everything than it is to buy wipes. A bottle 20oz of Baby oil is 2.47 at Walmart. A 28oz bottle of baby wash is $4.97 at Walmart. It costs us $1.87 for 100 wipes. We use about 15 wipes a day. So a pack of disposable wipes lasts us a little over a week. It is much more economical for us to use the cloth wipes than it is to buy wipes. You can use any sort of soft cloth for your wipes. I had about 30 unused wash cloths that I had gotten from my baby showers. I decided to use those as my wipes.

Here are the directions for making the wipe solution

1/8 cup baby wash or shampoo. 

1/8 cup baby oil

1/2 cup water

Put all of these ingredients in a spray bottle.

Shake the bottle before each use.

Spray the wipe. 

Wipe the baby.

Put a clean diaper on.

Enjoy the cuteness.