Washing in cold water? Is this madness?!!

[*EJ*]

I've always washed in cold also, pre-rinse, then a heavy or light wash (varies as to the state of the nappies).

Over the cooler months our dryer got a bit of a work out but i'm loving this warmer weather, some nappies can dry within a number of hours

[sasha]

Cheers for that - it's the 'germs' rather than the stains that were bothering me really (I'm not really a pristine-white kind of gal ).

I'd definitely wash on hot if we had any bugs going around, as well.

[LimeSlice]

get yourself some tea tree oil or lavender oil and put a few drops in the rinse cycle or your mix it with water in your fabric softener dispenser in the washer, will kill everything

[berrme]

I have always used cold washes for my nappies. I have nearly managed 3 years of cloth nappy use without a dryer too. Of course we have had drought conditions, I would love enough rain to make a dryer necessary. Drying them undercover when it rains is fine.

Poo is just the left over food your body couldn't use. Unless bubs is sick there really isn't a major issue with germs. Even then I use cold water but put some sort of anti bacterial in the wash. As LimeSlice said, tee tree oil is good.

[Cassius2]

we wash in cold! (had a twin tub up until a month ago too LOL!).

our MCN clean up well, and if there are any marks we found they went when hung in the sun.

[sasha]

Thanks for all the responses! Good to know cold is OK even when the sun isn't shining