My cloth nappies stink! What is your favorite way to strip the smell?

It has been a while since I have strip washed my nappies, I have tried many ways but never really had stinky nappies, so please tell me what your favorite way is to strip the stink.


Thank you :)

Super hot wash, a few drops of Sunlight washing up liquid and 6-10 drops of lavender, tea tree or eucalyptus. If they are particularly rank, give them another wash with the essential oils and sun dry them. If you can't sun dry them, pop them straight into the dryer, don't let them sit around at all or they will still smell funny.

Ohh thank you. I wish get some sunlight washing liquid tomorrow then wait for this rain patch to pass so I can hang them in the sun :)

For the lazy washers like me, rocking green is great. Can be tricky to get in Aus, but if you only use it when you need it, it lasts a while

I find a couple of tbs of bicarb in a strip wash help immensely with the stink.

And sun. It kills everything up here.
But, I know that you guys down there don't see much of that.

Strip wash as required. In between goes, though, couple f drops of eucalyptus oil in the rinse cycle.

But I live in the sun too.

I think it has been caused by drying on the drying rack inside over winter, it has been a horrible winter, but I can feel spring coming so back on the line we go :) at our last house I was able to pop the drying rack on the back verandah in the the breeze/sun and just move under the cover if the weather turned but we don't really have the ability here (yet, we will by next winter hopefully)

Thanks for your help!

DD - how many of your girls do you have in cloth? winter sucks for cloth here too.

Only two now, my middle girl has been TT'd since Easter, she still wears night nappies though. Back to 3 when baby arrives as I wonder if my oldest will ever understand toileting.

I just did one with plenty of morning fresh and hot water, then a heap of cold washes with extra rinses, then straight in the dryer. They have come out smelling great. But desperately need some sun now to get rid of the marks!

I do a hot wash with nothing else, then once that stops I add 1 tspn of washing liquid (dish washing liquid) and hot wash again and then another cold wash and line dry. I never put nappies in the dryer not even on low temp. But I have that many that I don't need to :rofl: