If you have babies or young children, you know they leak in quite a few different ways. This leads to load after load of laundry all out of proportion to their size. This doesn’t have to blow up your budget. You can easily take simple steps to save money on laundry. The costs to do…Read the full article.

As part of our Safe Family Promise, we set high standards for Non-toxic products, including non-toxic laundry products. We seek out the safest products to get the job done well and naturally. To get your clothes and cloth diapers clean as naturally as possible, the most important factor to control is the detergent or soap…Read the full article.

I’m fairly sure it won’t surprise you to hear that mainstream laundry detergents contain a long list of chemicals known to cause health issues: Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS), Dioxane (1,4-dioxane), Linear Alky Benzene Sulfonates (LAS), Nonylphenol Ethoxylate (NPE), Ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA), and the common Sodium Hypochlorite (bleach). Even some laundry products labeled “natural”…Read the full article.

If you’ve ever burned your nose hairs off with your baby’s morning diaper, would it help to know that you’re smelling ammonia? A short introduction to pH as it relates to baby diapers might help you reduce the stink. pH is measure of whether a solution is acidic or alkaline. When some meany colleagues of…Read the full article.

If you are trying to settle on a cloth diaper washing routine, you may have noticed that every manufacturer and every retailer seems to have different recommendations for washing cloth diapers. Your own water, washer, and detergent make a big difference. How do you decide how best to wash your diapers? We keep telling you…Read the full article.

In washing cloth diapers, much depends on your water and its interaction with your detergent. Stinky diapers? Detergent is a likely culprit. If you have hard water, you probably know it. Nature Mom’s water is so hard that it’s ruining her taps and drains. Her dishes are spotty, and her clothes are dingy. (I’m wondering…Read the full article.

Wow! I’ve been watching Why Cloth Diapers video contest entries, and I love seeing all of these parents outline their reasons for using cloth diapers. One in particular caught my eye. Amy made a video about hanging her cloth diapers to dry to save energy and to save wear on the diapers. “I”m really happy…Read the full article.

This following post was an entry in our Blog to Inspire contest. The opinions expressed in this post are those of the author and not necessarily those of Eco Baby Steps or Parenting By Nature. Blog to Inspire entrant Thifty Mama B’s is Shanaka B. She is a West Virginia coal miner’s daughter-in-law. She and…Read the full article.

Since I wrote about detergent residues on cloth diapers last month, I’ve been fascinated by how much more there is to say about it and how big a problem it has become. According to Bummis, a Canadian company that has been making cloth diaper covers for nearly 20 years, the problem of residues is actually…Read the full article.

As you get into your cloth diaper routine, you always look for ways to tweak and improve. One area everyone wants to improve is controlling diaper odors. These five tips are the main ways I cut down on cloth diaper odors. 1. Change diapers just before you go to bed if baby went to sleep…Read the full article.