IMPORTANT News about Bamboo Care

[maz]

WOW

I havent had anything like that happen at all and ive used cloth now for 3 1/2 years full time.

I wonder if its cause most people put a lid on their nappy buckets and the um.....nasties have time to get warm and generate heat in effect causing the fumes to eat into the bamboo ect. Im so glad that I use a swivle top lid bin.....my nappies even though soiled, air and NO I dont pre rinse at all and dont have any smell in my laundry due to it.

interesting......thanks Ali

[~Kim~]

hmmm I've been thinking about this today too. Like Maz, I wonder if it is due to the lid. My laundry's pretty airy and I rarely put a lid on the bucket except when other people are over (it sits on the bench). In my 3 years use I've never had an issue either.
Will be wary though.
Thanks Ali and welcome back.

[Bathsheba]

I'm thinking of buying cloth sanitary pads and am wondering if the bamboo in those would do the same thing with blood? Blood, I think, is more alkaline than acid...

Thanks for posting though Alioops

[Kitt3n]

Good point Ali. I might start leaving the lid off too Maz! I wonder if the ammonia evaporates and therefore disintegrates the fabric less?

Bath - I don't dry pail my cloth pads - I rinse them off with the LS then put them into a jar of water - and wash daily HTH

[maz]

I dry pail my cloth pads and have only had a problem with one of them that I made 3 years ago and it was due to poor quality PUL.

I just remember how 'hot' the nappies seemed when I use to dry pail with the lid on and the smell of it too....

[Smoke Jaguar]

Bath - one word...Mooncup
I chuck my MCN's into the washing machine and they get washed with everything else. Didn't notice disintegration with the Peapods with DS (and used them full time), and this time I'm not using any nappy full-time, so they're not getting wet as often. Interesting, will pass this on!

[Lolli]

While we're on the topic, is it ok to just throw them in the wash with everything else? I do a load a night anyway, with minimal washing powder coz ds gets excema, and I've just been dropping them in with everything else. not many stinky ones but- she only does one poo a week at the moment anyway.

[LimeSlice]

WOW

I havent had anything like that happen at all and ive used cloth now for 3 1/2 years full time.

I wonder if its cause most people put a lid on their nappy buckets and the um.....nasties have time to get warm and generate heat in effect causing the fumes to eat into the bamboo ect. Im so glad that I use a swivle top lid bin.....my nappies even though soiled, air and NO I dont pre rinse at all and dont have any smell in my laundry due to it.

interesting......thanks Ali

Yep,, I think I got rid of our nappy bucket lid within 3 week lol Never had ANY issues - even with BumG elastic that everyone seems to have...perhaps this os why? And Bump has some SERIOUSLY pongy wees lol!

Thaks Ali, certainly something I will mention to my customers