Baby wipes

[Mamabear04]

For the past 11 months I've been using tesco biodegradable baby wipes but the past few weeks I've just been thinking that they're absolutely rubbish! Can anyone recommend a decent biodegradable baby wipe?

we've found the cloth ones to be by far the best. no extra washes etc needed, just chuck in with normal washing.

Cheeky wipes are the way forward.

Thee is no such thing as a 'biodegradable wipe', it's a marketing gimmick. Once something like a wipe is in landfill it definitely does not biodegrade.

Boots

Absolutely worth getting the cheeky wipes. My youngest is 6 and we still use them just as handy wipes all over the place. You just chuck them in the wash with everything else.

Oh and as pp are suggesting the reusable ones are good. I used a mix of both when little one was younger.

Pura

The waitrose essential biodegradable ones are quite good and often on special offer. I use reusable ones as well but sometimes they aren’t practical.

Surely you have to rinse the reusable wipes if cleaning up a poo? I do have some still from DC1 but I only ever used them for pee's. I guess my problem is for cleaning up poo's and also out and about.

So for poos, you first use the nappy to wipe off as much as possible (the solids / lumps). You then can use wet cheeky wipes to remove the rest. I find I need far fewer cheeky wipes to deal with a poo than I would wet wipes.

I do a cheeky wipe wash about once a week. With a decent nappy bin there shouldn’t be any smell. I do tend to wash them on their own, or sometimes with towels, on an intense wash.

I don’t think they last forever as the company suggests - they get quite hard after a while, and I wouldn’t want to be wiping my own bottom with hard wipes. But I really do think they’re excellent and they assuage some of my guilt about no longer using reusable nappies (we just didn’t find them practical in the UK, it was too hard to get them dry without a tumble dryer, especially in the winter).

When out and about - SIL and BIL are amazing at always bringing cheeky wipes with their nappy kit. They use as they would at home, with a bottle of water to wet them and a double lined waterproof bag to put them in afterwards. Cheeky wipes sells these bags for this purpose. I confess, we do use wet wipes when out and about…

I use Mum&You biodegradable wipes from Amazon when I do use wet wipes.

Another big fan of cheeky wipes here. Was a total convert from the first time I used them (when baby was around 6 weeks old). Never looked back. And DP who had been sceptical about getting them also agreed that there was no way he'd ever use a wet wipe to clean poo ever again! Honestly, it's so so much quicker and easier and generally more pleasant to clean a dirty bottom with a cheeky wipe than wet wipes.

For those using cheeky wipes do you bother with the fresh and mucky boxes or wet them as you go and just chuck in wash?

Ordered my first kit other day

Wet as we go and then chuck in wash

We use cotton cloths designed for the purpose, basically run a bowl of warm water, keep wiping and rinsing in the water, then chuck the cloth (and the muslin we used to dry the area) in a bucket which goes in a hot wash (60c "eco" programme)every few days with towels etc.
Gets a lot cleaner than trying to use wipes, although we also use wipes when we're out.
We did try reusable nappies as well but it wasn't worth it in the end due to skin conditions (also they're super bulky and don't hold as much wee)

I don’t bother - wet as I go (I don’t use the essential oils, just water), chuck in a normal nappy bin with a mesh bag in it. Can then take mesh bag out and put wipes into wash without getting pooey hands. Then quick wash of bin in the shower.

Used fresh and mucky boxes at home, but generally took dry wipes out with me and wetted them if needed.

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I use boots biodegradable wipes which seem fine, I order big boxes online.

However, there’s lots of research that “biodegradable” doesn’t actually mean a lot and they might be degrading over a 100 years into harmful by-products.

Also, if you’re putting it inside a nappy to dispose of (as I do), then there’s not much point in the wipe being biodegradable.