About Clean Cloth Nappies

Our website is a science-based education resource. We aim to encourage best practice to ensure success in getting reliably clean laundry with each and every wash.

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Welcome to Clean Cloth Nappies. We teach people how to successfully wash cloth nappies and general laundry.

All advice on our website is extensively tested. Our laundry and environmental information is developed by scientists who are experts in their fields, based on the fundamentals of chemistry, microbiology and other relevant disciplines.

We want everyone to feel confident in the laundry. With our methods, you can achieve reliably clean laundry with each and every wash.

The Clean Cloth Nappies website

Our website cleanclothnappies.com is packed with information and free downloads. We want people to be able to create a rock-solid wash routine and troubleshoot using our website.

The website is your authoritative source for all our information, and the vast majority is free to access. Some useful pages:

We have calculators on the website to help members track how many nappies they keep out of landfill and estimate the annual cost of laundering cloth nappies. 

The Clean Cloth Nappies Facebook group

Our best resource is our Clean Cloth Nappies Facebook group. On top of the expert advice, our Facebook group also provides a community of like-minded parents who support each other. Our team has worked hard to create a kind and welcoming atmosphere so that members can learn about cloth nappies and feel empowered to use them.

Everything in our Facebook group is completely free.

With our help members learn to successfully use cloth nappies, save mouldy textiles and clean mouldy prams.

Facebook post moderation

We approve 20-25 posts most days and every single post is moderated by an experienced and passionate admin team member.

We moderate each post for general online conduct and behaviour. This means our members get accurate advice without any pseudo-science or fear-mongering. Our moderation model enables us to teach best practices and prevent the spread of misinformation.

  • All posts submitted to our Facebook Group go to a pending list.
  • Our Facebook admin team are volunteers who have families and other commitments, so your post may not be approved immediately.

We work with Facebook in optimising and improving group functionality, as well as combating misinformation online.

Facebook group dynamics

With over 90,000 100,000 group members we are the largest cloth nappy group in Australia, NZ and the UK. Around 75% of members are from Australia, with another 10% each in NZ and the UK. 

The group is truly global, in May 2024 we had members in 99 different countries.

We ask members some entry questions to see why they joined the group and how they found out about us. 65% of members join for non-nappy reasons. Most people are recommended to our group through other parenting groups. 

Clean Cloth Nappies patrons

We are independent and funded through the generosity of our members. We have a Patreon account which grants members access to our premium information. 

Our strengths are cloth nappies, laundry science and sustainability. We want to spend time answering member questions, being with our families and pursuing things that fulfil us, instead of fixing payment issues and administering accounts. Patreon helps us to keep Clean Cloth Nappies sustainable while allowing us to do more of the things we love.

Our team is small and powerful. With your help, we can support our team of group moderators, scientists, researchers, designers, and web developers to continue to create amazing content and resources for you. Troubleshooting and advice in our Facebook Group will always be free and we’ll keep answering posts on a daily basis.

If you’ve benefited from our help in the past and would like to contribute to our future, we hope you’ll consider becoming a patron.