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How to strip bamboo nappies?

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How to strip bamboo nappies?

Postby ems101 » Tue Mar 05, 2013 4:23 pm

From my washing nappies with conditioner post...

I washed easyfits and bamboo fitteds.

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Re: How to strip bamboo nappies?

Postby ems101 » Tue Mar 05, 2013 10:15 pm

Thought this was where the nappy experts hung out?!

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Re: How to strip bamboo nappies?

Postby sim » Tue Mar 05, 2013 10:26 pm

There are a couple of stickies here

HTH!

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Re: How to strip bamboo nappies?

Postby ems101 » Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:09 am

Yes I've seen those, but just wanted opinions of prefer ways of stripping. My sleep deprived brain needs a simple option!

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Re: How to strip bamboo nappies?

Postby sim » Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:51 am

Ah. I use(d) soda crystals and lots if rinsing.

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Re: How to strip bamboo nappies?

Postby clothmama » Wed Mar 06, 2013 7:38 am

I just did it with a full dose of bio powder and then masses of rinses til clear with white vinegar in the final rinse. Very simple and always worked for me :)

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Re: How to strip bamboo nappies?

Postby ems101 » Wed Mar 06, 2013 8:21 am

How much vinegar do you put in? Do you put it in the conditioner drawer?

I usually do a rinse, a 60degree wash, then an extra rinse. I use a full dose of non bio always as we have such hard water. I will do an extra rinse with vinegar today. It wont harm my wraps or easy fits will it?!

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Re: How to strip bamboo nappies?

Postby Slebro » Wed Mar 06, 2013 8:36 am

ems101 wrote:How much vinegar do you put in? Do you put it in the conditioner drawer?

I usually do a rinse, a 60degree wash, then an extra rinse. I use a full dose of non bio always as we have such hard water. I will do an extra rinse with vinegar today. It wont harm my wraps or easy fits will it?!


I think if you normally use a full dose you'd need more? I don't understand what the extra powder does if there's detergent residue, but whenever I've stripped nappies because they've been a bit smelly I've used a full dose of powder (soft to medium water here) and rinsed forever after... I've never added vinegar because I only have malt vinegar in and never got round to buying white vinegar before I got them stripped anyway. Um, yeah, so maybe try adding another half scoop of powder and rinse a few times more. That way you can see where you're going with it and if it works you don't need vinegar and know it won't have damaged the easyfits :D

Oh and your nappies would normally be super rinsed because of the hard water, too, so maybe it wouldn't take as many rinses as it does here?

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Re: How to strip bamboo nappies?

Postby ems101 » Wed Mar 06, 2013 8:41 am

Tbh i have been using the nappies i washed in conditioner anyway and they dint seem to be too affected. Maybe because ds is not such a heavy wetter? Ill Di an extra rinse anywAy, i did put a bit of extra powder in so hopefully it will work. My machine is quite new so it does a good rinse anywAy.

Thanks for help x

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