Repelling moisture - HELP!!

cecilyandgautam

Hi Ladies,

We've been using Kawaii pockets for 9ish months now, pretty much full time and about half of them are repelling moisture. Despite my protests, my DH insists on using A&D because my daughter has a recurring rash problem (coconut oil is great at prevention, not treatment and A&D seems to be the only thing that works) but we use liners so the A&D has at least some barrier. I usually wash once on the "baby care" setting which is 1hr45min of hot & cold with Bum Genius detergent. I then pull out the covers to line dry (toss a few in the dryer if we were last minute on the laundry) and then wash the inserts again on the "sanitize" setting - I came up with this to fight annomia and for those purposes, my routine seems to work. The inserts work fine. It's just the covers. There's no funky smell - just a ton of leaks. 

What can I do? Dawn - if so how much? Should I just wash the covers over & over again? I try to limit how much wear & tear they get because I don't want to degrade the PUL but if the microfleece is repelling I've gotta do something. Would repeat washing work if I use only warm water? I'm worried that repeatedly washing the covers in extra hot will ruin the PUL.

Thanks for your suggestions! 

Aurora_Borealis

secondaryPULSE:

I'd try a dawn strip. A generous squirt of dawn, wash hot, then rinse until more suds. You may need to actuall