? about cloth wipes with a warmer/your favorite cloth wipe solution?

Re: ? about cloth wipes with a warmer/your favorite cloth wipe solution?

• The_Spanish_Inquisition

  March 2010

  I've never found the wipe warmer to be necessary. Unless you're keeping LO's room really cold, the solution will stay plenty warm. But I never used one, even on disposable wipes which do get a bit chilly.

  I use a mix that I make up myself -  2 cups water, 2 tbs witch hazel, and 2 drops each of tea tree and lavender essential oils. Spray it on the cloth wipe, wipe heiny, throw in bucket. Easy peasy!

  I avoid the fancy diaper sprays and those little bits you can get online to make diaper solution - they almost always contain soaps, and I don't like the idea of leaving soap residue on my kid's butt.

  I've never kept a bowl of water around and can't even think why you'd need it, except maybe in the very early days to clean the umbilical stump.

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• stever member

  March 2010

  We don't use a warmer - just fill a squeeze bottle with a few drops of olive oil and baby soap with a few cups of water, then squeeze a few drops of that onto wipes as needed.
  

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• elliezen

  March 2010

  Thanks, I will just make my own solution as suggested and skip the warmer! Thanks for sharing your recipes : ) 

  

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• The_Spanish_Inquisition

  March 2010

  elliezen:

  Thanks, I will just make my own solution as suggested and skip the warmer! Thanks for sharing your recipes : ) 

  I forgot to add that if you do use witch hazel, make sure to get the alcohol-free variety. It can be hard to find in drugstores, but GNC sells a nice one.

  GL!

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• lspinman

  March 2010

  We use the Prince Lionheart warmer for cloth wipes.  I like this as it also makes quick face wipes easy too.  Plus this warmer has an anit-microbial sponge thing inside.  Its not nessisary but we do like having it.

  I actually only use water as a solution.  Everything else that we tried made S either dry or break out a bit.  I have very sensitive skin myself and that was obviously passed along to her.
  

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• kat.in.the.hat

  March 2010

  we never used a warmer and our solution was just water.  I just kept it in the epi bottle from the hospital on the changing pad and it's worked great for us.
  

  
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• bandwife

  March 2010

  kat.in.the.hat:

  we never used a warmer and our solution was just water.  I just kept it in the epi bottle from the hospital on the changing pad and it's worked great for us.
  

  Ha! I used the epi bottle for wipes too!

   Yes, I have not bothered with making a solution or having a warmer. DS has sensitive skin and so far so good with plain old water.
  

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• jkalmommy2b

  March 2010

  kat.in.the.hat:

  we never used a warmer and our solution was just water.  I just kept it in the epi bottle from the hospital on the changing pad and it's worked great for us.
  

  This exactly! 

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