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How to Make Homemade Baby Wipes

10/31/2013

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Baby wipes are expensive. And babies require a lot of diaper changes (some of which, take a half a dozen wet wipes to clean up after!) Most of the time, they're small so it takes several to get a job done. Sometimes they're too harsh for the face or even the bottom. A few ingredients and some good paper towel can help you make wipes that are customised for scent / skin sensitivity issues and can save you a lot of money as well. The wet wipes you can make from the directions in this hub are soft, smell great, save you money, and stay wet for a long time if left sealed.


Read on for a basic baby wipes recipe that you can customize and that you'll probably use until your baby is in kindergarten for wiping hands, faces, and bottoms.

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Baby Wipes Recipe
The ingredients you'll need for homemade wipes are:
  • Bounty Paper Towel
  • A container with a lid
  • A sharp knife
  • Hot water
  • Mixing bowl
  • Baby oil
  • Baby wash
  • Baby lotion
Prep the baby wipes
Use one measured cup of boiling (or very hot) water and add:
  • about an eighth of baby oil and the same amount of: 
  • your favourite baby lotion, 
  • and liquid baby soap/ baby wash
Mix well.
  1. Cut Bounty paper towel roll in 1/2 and remove cardboard roll from the centre.
  2. Insert paper towel roll into your container and pour the mixed liquid.
  3. Seal with a lid and leave about 24 hours (otherwise it's too oily and wipes will be too hot)
These baby wipes are great for frugal parenting. They're large and can be used on the face and hands and work great for cleaning your own hands after a diaper change.


 

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The Many Uses for Baby Oil

10/31/2013

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Well not quite 101 but there are many uses for baby oil, inexpensive and versatile product:

It’s cheap and contains very few additives and some brands come enhanced with extra vitamins or aloe.

  • If you put a few drops in your ears, you can remove wax-build up without prodding your ear canal.
  • Warm it up if you’ve got really waxy, plugged up ears.
  • Put a little on a cotton ball to help remove eye make-up.
  • Put some in your bath to soften yours or your babies skin . Mixing it with a touch of your favorite bubble bath will create a lovely bathwash.
  • Use after shaving your legs to soften your skin and prevent razor burn
  • Use on your babies scalp to treat and prevent cradle cap
  • Use on cracked or dry heals and put socks on to hold in the moisture
  • Smooth on a pregnant tummy to reduce the chances of stretch marks
  • Use in homemade baby wipes (2 tbsps of baby oil, 2tbsps of baby lotion, 1 tbsp of bathwash and 3/4 cup of hot water poured over Bounty paper towels and put in a sealed container) Get the homemade baby wipes recipe here.
  • Use a small amount to bring out the sheen in your wooden furniture
  • Massage a little on your cuticles before your manicure or pedicure
  • Using before going in the sun can increase your likelihood of sunburn or suntan (beware of uva/uvb rays. This is not endorsed behaviour!)
  • Some say baby oil makes a good personal lubricant but others disagree (it can damage prophylactics)
  • Great and inexpensive massage oil
  • Great lubricant for noisy door hinges!
  • Gets rid of temporary tattoos in a snap.

Tags: baby oil, baby oil uses, ear wax removal, homemade baby wipes, massage oil,temporary tattoo removal

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Cooking with Pooh - This Really IS the Title Mum!

10/10/2013

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Every now and then a perfectly good and decent cook book comes along with a very unfortunate title. Hopefully, the illustration on the cover will give you some idea what kind of Pooh this refers to (the bear kind) before you run screaming to your congressman about standards and censorship.

The title is actually rather genius, because as any parent of a 6 year-old knows, the excretory arts are a subject of unending interest and delight. Getting a little boy to help Mommy in the kitchen will be a breeze if she utilizes this book, especially if she pretends to be supercool and suggests they make something from the Book of Farts, say — which any child will scoff at as silly talk. Then she can deliver the gold: "You're right, Dear; how about we use The Pooh Cook Bookinstead?...."
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The Pooh Cook Book, 1969
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How popular are modern cloth nappies?

10/8/2013

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Choice Australia surveyed hundreds of online parents in late 2012 to find out their thoughts on, and experiences with, different types of nappies.  Here's what they found:  


Of those it surveyed, 18% said they currently use MCNs: 16% in combination with disposable nappies (including eco disposables), and around 2% use MCNs exclusively (and a few in combination with traditional terry cloth nappies).


“I used disposables for the first few weeks with my newborn (legs too skinny for MCNs to fit without leaking). Now I use MCNs at home, and disposables at daycare, on holidays and occasionally as spare nappies (e.g. if the MCNs aren't dry.)” 

The main perceived benefits of cloth nappies are their lower environmental impact, the long-term cost savings, their appearance and the fact that they are gentle on babies’ skin. For many, there’s also an evangelical joy in using them.

“Besides all the other benefits – easy to use, no chemicals against baby's skin, easy to wash, better for the environment – cloth is just fun! I love my nappy stash, I love the way it looks on bubs, and I have so much fun with it!” 

“With my third baby using the same set of modern cloth nappies, I now delight in how much money I have saved in nappy purchasing after that initial outlay for the cloth nappies.”
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Cost comparison – MCNs versus disposable 
There are a number of variables involved in costing cloth nappies against disposables.

DisposablesIf you estimate a baby using about 6500 nappies from birth to toilet training (based on six nappies a day for three years), Huggies, the most popular brand of disposable in our survey, will cost around $3000 (when bought in bulk packages). A cheaper disposable, like Aldi’s Mamia, the second most popular brand in our survey, will cost you around $1900 all up.

MCNs
Cloth nappies cost about $30 each - but at KindyNews eco-shop- they cost $16 for a top quality nappy! on average, plus boosters and liners. You’ll need about 20-24 to get started, which will allow you to wash every two days and still have a set to use on laundry day. However, the number required will vary depending on washing and drying habits, climate, season etc. That’s an upfront cost of around $600-$700.

Costs of laundering have to be factored in as well, and these will depend on your particular washing machine, whether you use warm, hot or cold water, your brand of detergent, and whether they’re tumble-dried. Still, with one set of nappies, cool water washing and line drying, you’ll be up for less than half the cost of disposables.

It's worth to note that if you buy sized nappies rather than one-size-fits-most, you’ll have to buy another set or two later on, which will add to the expense. But consider also that if you can use your MCNs on more than one child, your cost savings will add up.

Which brand?There are many, many brands of nappy out there – respondents reported using a total of 248 different brands. Most people use more than one brand, with 3.7 brands used on average and one-third of people using five or more brands. Many brands are supplied by small cottage industry enterprises, or WAHM (work at home mums), creating their own distinctive and/or custom designs and selling them online. However, of the top 12 most popular brands, very few strictly qualify as WAHM – apart from the out-and-out large-scale commercial companies, a more typical scenario is that a WAHM operation became a small family enterprise and then further expanded to become a full-blown business operation.
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