I just got my shipment in from Green Mountain Diapers (love them!), and now have to prep all my new diapers. I know you don't have to be as particular with detergent and 100% cotton diapers, but I do want to use a detergent that protects my investment as much as possible. My question is, do I really have to switch the detergent that I was our clothes in as well?
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I do separate loads with different detergents. I've never heard of switching detergents for non-diaper loads, but I always wash the diapers separately.
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It depends on the detergent you use for your regular clothes. What are you using for your regular clothes?
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@pelikila: I use All Free & Clear for mine and DH's clothes, which is apparently not great to use because of brighteners. Maybe it wouldn't be a big deal to use that on our clothes and then use something like Charlie's just for diapers?
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I always wash our diapers separately from our clothes. I stocked up on Tide Original powder before they replaced it with the new Ultra version. I use that only for our diapers, and we use whatever free and clear liquid detergent is on sale at the store for our clothes.
There is a really good chart on detergents at the link below that rates each different detergent for their cloth diaper friendliness.
http://www.pinstripesandpolkadots.com/detergentchoices.htm
http://www.diaperjungle.com/detergent-chart.html -
I always wash my diapers separate and use a different detergent for them as DH and mines cloths. We use Dropps (after a fail with Rock n Green...buildup issues) for diapers and DS's cloths. For DH and I, I either use Dropps, Sun & Earth, or 7th Gen. We use Ecover for fabric softener on our cloths but nothing on DS's.
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We wash everything separtly so we can use different detergents. I have a load of diapers, baby clothes and things, and then our stuff.
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@c.sassy: You should be fine to use All free and clear on your clothes and a cloth-safe detergent on the diapers. Just wash them at separate times so you can switch the detergents and you shouldn't run into issue.
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I use free and clear detergents for everything, my skin gets itchy.
But I wash the diapers separate from our regular laundry. The diapers get washed twice so it uses more water to put in regular clothes with the diapers and do 2 washes. Sometimes on the 2nd wash I'll throw in a few extra things but the second wash is a hot wash so it limits what I can throw in.
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