Make the Switch to Cloth Wipes

If you are using cloth diapers, it really makes sense to use cloth wipes.  With disposable diapers, when you use disposable wipes, care givers tend to put the wipes into the diaper, roll the diaper up, and throw everything away.

If you use disposable wipes with cloth diapers, chances are you'll end up putting the disposable wipe into the cloth diaper and throwing the diaper into your diaper pail or wet bag.  This means that the wipes will end up in your washing machine.  Disposable wipes tend to get tangled up in the aplix (velcro like closures on cloth diapers).  If you do remember to not put your wipe in your diaper, you're left with the problem of needing to dispose of the wipe in a different place than your diaper.

There are a lot of other benefits to using cloth wipes.

•  Cloth wipes create less solid waste than disposable wipes. Babies go through 7,000 - 9,000 diaper changes from birth to potty training.  If you use two wipes per change (and let’s be honest…how many people can really only use two wipes on a major poop explosion), we’re looking at over 14,000 - 18,000 wipes. Picture all that in your local landfill!
• Cloth wipes work better than flimsy disposable wipes.  Cloth wipes really grab the mess – making it much easier to clean up.  We recommend having 1-2 cloth wipes for every diaper change you have.  With cloth wipes, you should hardly ever need more than one to finish the job.  
• Cloth wipes do not contain harmful chemicals like disposable wipes.  Often when parents are at the end of their ropes battling diaper rash, they find that their baby actually has a reaction to the chemicals in cloth wipes.  A simple switch to cloth wipes and the rash goes away. (For more on the chemicals in disposable wipes, read this post)
• Cloth Wipes will save you more money.  Depending on the brand of disposables wipes, and the numbers used to come up with the figures, you can expect to save $120 - $500 per child.  

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