Selecting a laundry detergent for cloth nappies and general laundry
Worried about using ‘wrong’ or ‘harsh’ detergents on baby’s skin? Learn more about detergents, laundry boosters and optical brighteners.
Our advice for dealing with flooded textiles
With our help, you can easily salvage mouldy nappies, clothes and prams. Mould can be safely removed from textiles using chlorine bleach or high heat.
Benzalkonium chloride laundry products
Benzalkonium chloride is environmentally problematic and can irritate the skin. Regular sanitisation is unnecessary with a good wash routine.
How many nappies have you prevented going into landfill?
Use our calculator to figure out how many nappies you’ve saved from landfill, and the amount of money you would have spent on disposables!
Water hardness
Water often has minerals dissolved in it. The higher the amount of dissolved minerals, the harder the water is. Understanding…
Compostable disposable nappies
What is the difference between degradable, biodegradable and compostable disposable nappies? Don’t get sucked into greenwashing, look for the compostable…
Using cloth with water restrictions
Our advice on using cloth nappies during water restrictions and drought.
Vinegar
Separate fact from fiction and learn what use vinegar has with cloth nappy laundry.
Soapberries (aka Soap Nuts)
Soapberries or soap nuts come from the Sapindus mukorossi tree. They contain saponin,1 which is a glucoside with foaming characteristics, i.e….
Safe Chlorine Bleach Use for Modern Cloth Nappies
Chlorine bleach contains sodium hypochlorite, which oxidises ammonia. When following the sanitisation methods listed on the Sanitise pages and the…
Septic Systems
A septic system is a watertight tank through which domestic wastewater is collected for primary treatment onsite, instead of being…
Economics of cloth vs disposable nappies
Re-useable nappies are by far the better option when it comes to environmental sustainability, as well as for financial savings.
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