I just rub stains with stain remover, I use the Sard one which can be left for 7 days, and then throw in the laundry basket till washing time (which is most days!). Whites I do on a 'soak' cycle with Omo and they come up fine. I've never washed Xanders' stuff seperately from ours - initially I just used a sensitive washing powder for everything.. now he is older I just use regular omo with no probs. I've never needed to use Napisan and the like.

Many things that say 'do not tumble dry' seem to survive the dryer just fine... I've always tumbled the wondersuits... I figure they grow out of them before the dryer would do any major damage anyway. His 'good' clothes I do prefer to line dry where possible and installed a small retractable line under our patio for this purpose (I line dry nappies anyway).

HTH?