Ok so I am cloth diapering and I love it. Minus the horrible diaper smell. What are some of your fave natural ways to make our room smell better and the pail too?
Thanks guys. I am doing the baking soda thing already, but my son has some pretty pungent pee. Any others??
Hmmm i'll try the sol-u-me. Sound interesting. I do rinse out the poopy, but I'll also rinse the pee and try that. I live with my parents and brother and I share a bathroom with him, otherwise I would leave the pail in there. It also is the downstairs guest bathroom (my dad works from home and has people over all the time) I am also going to get the liners so that should help too. Thanks guys!!!
After I use a soak/rinse cycle, I'll add vinegar(~2c) to the second soak cycle. Keeps the diapers fresher between washes.
My friends who have used and are using cloth diapers soaked them in a mixture of Sol-U-Mel, a tea tree oil based 3-in-1 cleaner and deoderizer. I use it to spray down my house, beds, and dog bed when it seems to be getting a little stinky.
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Baking soda? Dishes of coffee beans might help too.
I put baking soda in my diaper pail, also used dried orange peels, but the only thing I found that worked the best was arm and hammper litter box deoderizer (although I find it a bit on the perfumy side). I used disposable/flushable diaper liners so I could flush the poo down the toilet and that seemed to keep the smell down a lot. You can rolls of them on the walmart web sight and have them shipped to the store.
First off I want to add that disposable diapers stink too. Then sprinkle a little baking soda in everyday. You can also rinse out the pee diapers as well as the poo ones and that will cut back on smell. I also washed every 3rd day because even though I had enough diapers to go longer obviously the ones that sit for a long time smell worse. Lastly you might consider moving the pail into the bathroom, better than having it in the nusery I think.
Baking soda. I like the idea of coffee too!
my friend who does cloth diapering uses a pail that seals. she says it makes all the difference.
The only thing that ever worked for me is to ditch the diaper pail and wash the diapers out right away in the sink. I wash diapers every other day after I hand wash them. It is a HUGE pain but I never have the diaper smell now.
Good luck!
I changed the pail every day (sometimes more often) and washed it with soap and water twice a week. But we used disposables.
My grandmother actually had 2 "pails". One was a glazed ceramic crock that was kept in the nursery with a lid... the other was the "pre wash". She kept a dedicated garbage can filled with soapy water outside. When she emptied the crock she would spray and scrape the diapers with a hose and tool, and then put the diapers in the garbage can to soak. Then into the machine. Then she would boil them for several hours. Then the crock got rinsed out and returned to the nursery.
The smell of boiling fabric is why we didn't go with cloth. Oy.
But they were always white, and always clean.
She also never left the dirty diapers in the crock for longer than a few hours. Whenever the baby would lay down for a nap she's take the crock to the garden... hose them... and put them in the prewash.
