Is it necessary to use baby detergent

Burrberrymum

Anyone just use the regular every day stuff for baby clothes?

I wouldn't want her to get a rash of any kind due to using the wrong soap on her clothes but I'm just curious if its absolutely necessary?

happybride 276

Nope. Not at all.  If you are concerned about the ingredients being to rugh on baby you can buy tide or all free and clear. 

A37licia

No, it's not necessary. Dreft is full of chemicals and overpriced.

I've been using Charlie's Soap for all our laundry for a couple of years and love it as a natural option. I use it on cloth diapers too. 

From regular stores, a free & clear variety would work well for babies. Sometimes something like Tide can cause rashes, but not usually if used with just clothes (as opposed to diapers). 

Surfergirl013

you can use any "free and clear" type of detergent as well..as long as it has no perfumes or dyes

 

4Angel5

Any FREE and CLEAR type of detergent is fine. We have sensitive skin in our family and ALL and Costco's Kirkland brand have both been fine.

Tide's Free and Clear version was fine, too

Shanmarie1083

Not only is it not necessary but it's a waste of money and probably not that good for baby anyway. Detergents like Dreft are full of chemicals and perfumes and it's really a shame that they market them for babies. 

We use a free and clear detergent for all of our clothes, including the baby's things. I use Rockin Green for the cloth diapers and that is the only time we use a different detergent. 

Arielle27

I just use/dTide. From what I understand, it's now as gentle as the baby stuff. Both my kids have very sensitive skin and neither has ever had a problem with their clothes/rashes.

strlitemiss

I'm not worried as I use all free n clear already!

zoieglow

Baby detergent is a racket. I agree with everyone else, just free and clear is fine.

xxpairofmedicsxx

Thank you for asking this question - as I had Dreft on my list of things to buy.  Looks like I will trade the chemical latent laundry detergent for Tide or All. 

Burrberrymum

Great thanks ladies! I just had it in the back of my mind that the baby detergent is just for marketing really.. We usually use something organic so I'm assuming that would be just as gentle. Glad I didn't go out and spend a bunch of money bulking up on that stuff.

Luckymomma4

Maybe not baby detergent but scent free. My kids take after my husband and have very sensitive skin so we use unscented.

magdalina.h

We use regular free and clear stuff

Lovehavinggirls

We use the Costco free and clear detergent and that works great for dd.

katiebenes

I'm using it because I got some from my shower

kje120

CurlingRocks:

I've never bought baby detergent.  We just got perfume and dye free Tide/All/Up &Up/etc., whatever was on sale.

This is what we did/will do as well. I think we mostly used Tide free and clear and it was just fine. 

SweetPeaK26

Not necessary. Baby will touch your clothes plenty, so unless you wash yours in baby soap too, its kind of a moot point.

I make laundry soap, that will do just fine!