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Cloth Diapering
imurs8228
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ammonia for almost 7 months...I'm really done.
imurs8228
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We have battled ammonia for the entire 7 months that DS has been in CD's. Everytime it starts off with a couple of diapers and then over like a month, they're all awful. Most recently, I did and RLR strip and rinsed like a good 10 times for each load - I also added 3/4 capful of Calgon because we have really hard water. Then yesterday, it wasn't like weak ammonia, it was the stench that is in our pail after 2-3 days...eye burning ammoina. WTH???? I'm am so fed up. I literally have stripped our dipes 5 times in 7 months and we have a huge stash so that's not fun. I really need some help.
Our current wash routine is every 3 days and it's 4 TB of EcoSprout with 1/2 capful of Calgon. Then a warm rinse, hot wash, cold rinse, cold rinse, cold rinse. We have tried RNG hard rock, Tide Ultra and starting with a cold rinse. I have tried spraying overnight dipes with BacOut but it's not just the overnight ones that stink. PLEASE HELP US!!!
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Re: ammonia for almost 7 months...I'm really done.
Another fairly easy thing to try would be 1/4 cup of baking soda with every first rinse. I also did the last rinse with vinegar but if your water is very hard I hear it can react with the minerals. Neither have to be rinsed out more than just a rinse, wash, rinse.
It is really frustrating to diagnose, but once you figure it out it should be much easier.
I have mega hard water and was having the same problem. Rockin' green detergent has a "Hard Rock" version for hard water problems. They also have "Funk Rock- Ammonia bouncer" which I only had to use at first to fix all my already stinky diapers. Now with using the hard rock I have not had any other problems. I recommend this to everyone with struggles because I was about to give up on CD when I started using this product.
Also, they do have a scent- free version (bare naked babies) but their scents are all natural and very very faint. Don't be afraid of the rockin' scents. We are a 100% no dyes or scents house with all products because we have a lot of allergies and none of the rockin scents bother our allergies. In fact we use Rockin for all our clothes too!
Good luck to you.
I would suggest washing every other day. The only time I have noticed a slight ammonia problem with mine is after we went on a short trip, so my diapers went 3 days without washing.
We use mostly Bumgenius diapers with the microfiber inserts. What I have been doing is washing the pockets seperate from the inserts. About every other week I add a little bleach to the inserts only. So I do a warm rinse, add bleach and spin out, turn back and add soap. I add a few extra warm rinses afterwards too for the bleach loads and this seems to cut down on the ammonia smell for us.
TBH, we use a little of everything. I smelt it on a Simplex 2.0, a grovia AI2 and 2 Sbish OBF's that have only been worn 3 times.
We had a similar issue from weeks 2-6 and we have very hard water. We are using Eco's. This is what has seemed to help: Adding much more salt to our water softener system, rinsing out all poopy diapers and scrubbing blue dawn on them (so each load gets about 2-3 diapers saturated in blue dawn). Once a week I put a few squeezes of blue dawn in the detergent dispenser during the first cold cycle and run 4 rinse cycles. I always use 1cup of vinegar with the last rinse cycle.
Hope you can get this figured out!!
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That seems like an awful large amount of detergent. I use 1 scoop full of tiny bubbles. Are you just getting detergent build up, that can cause the ammonia smell too.
I'd also wash more often. My guess is that the diapers are sitting too long (turning the urine to ammonia), and then because you have such a large load to wash that they're just not getting clean.
You can get all the ammonia out using Fish Ammonia remover. This thread pretty much says it all: https://community.babycenter.com/post/a23042415/ammonia_is_gone