I have been using my own home brewed baby wipe solution combined with cut up pieces of muslin. This has been great although limited to use at home. So I wondered if there was a kit out there that could be used at home and out and about.To this end we have invested in a reusable baby wipe kit. It was fairly expensive at around £35 but is very comprehensive and well thought out.
What you get:
- 1 fresh wipes container 15cm x 15cm x 9cm depth
- 1 mucky wipes container 18cm x 18cm x 10cm depth
- mesh bag insert
- 25 x terry towelling wipes, 15cm x 15cm
- 1 bottle of lavender & chamomile ‘fresh wipes’ oil
- 1 bottle of tea tree & tea tree lemon ‘mucky wipes’ oil blend
- 1 fresh wipes out and about bag
- 1 mucky wipes waterproof bag with mesh insert
Directions
- Fill the fresh wipes container with 2cm of water and 4 drops of ‘fresh wipes’ oil
- Put the towels in the container and seal
- Fill the mucky wipes container with 3cm water and 3 drops of ‘mucky wipes’ oil
- Once a wipe is used place the dirty wipe in the mucky wipes container
To start with I stretched the mesh bag around the mucky wipes container before adding the lid. The instructions didn’t say to do this but it seemed a little odd to just plonk the mesh bag in the liquid. You would have to fish around for it every time you needed to add a dirty wipe. This turned out to be wrong as the liquid soon was sucked up into the bag and over the sides of the container. What I have done now is carefully lay the bag into the liquid so that the open end is on the top. This will have to do.
When the mucky wipes container is full the idea is that you simply take out the bag, pull the draw string and stick it straight in the wachine machine at 40 degrees. No need for a 60 degree wash because the tea tree oil will have killed off any nasties :-).
Making you own reusable baby wipe kit
Looking at the contents you could quite easily make your own kit. The containers are just snap-tight containers like those used for sandwiches although they do have funky ‘mucky’ and ‘fresh’ logos printed on them. What may be more difficult to source would be the waterproof out and about bags.