Baby wipes?!

[sammylouise56]

Just wondering..
I need to get some more nappies and wipes in ready for when little one arrives. What brand wipes did people use on their newborns?
I was going to get water wipes but they're quite pricey! Any suggestions?!?

Water wipes are pointless for bums unless your child has very sensitive skin, we do use them sparingly for faces though when we can't be bothered or run out of clean flannels.

I use Amazon's Mama Bear wipes as I find they are by far the cheapest option and they have a reclosable lid. But when I was in the UK I used to find supermarket/Boots own brand to be the best, and I'd pick them up when discounted most often.

Reusable here.

Bundle of muslin squares from eBay. Boil wash and cut into quarters. Hem if you want.

Cost about £5 for 50 wipes - lasted 4 years until they were no longer needed.

I have always used little Angel's from asda. Same with nappies too not bad on price esp when buying the boxes of them and the nappies are fairly cheap too.. although nothing is really that cheap for new born babies they are like little poo machines lol. X

@Rubyroot water wipes brand aren't the only water based type wipes out there. I also never @ you in my comment I initially made. I was a overall comment on if it was a price and recyclable issue for some.

As far as I'm aware they are the purest wipe out there (or at least they were when my baby was tiny) but I may be wrong. I used cotton wool wipes and these as my baby had quite severe nappy rash. I only used the water wipes from 6 month onwards and occasionally when out and about before that as although they are 99.9% water, they still have a small amount of chemical in them.

@MissPepper8 I think water wipes are more expensive as they’re supported/backed/tested by 3 larger associations where as the cheaper ones aren’t (ironically ds is allergic to the cheaper ones in our local savers so I wouldn’t bother trying another 6 maybe ones for the sake of a sore face/arse over an extra buck)

The ones on the pack are eczema association Australia, national eczema .org and allergy UK.

If cheeky wipes were £50 and my dp didn’t melt at the thought of scraped shit in the washing machine they’d probably have been my first choice. I’m still on a hunt for diy cloth wipes, microfibre apparently sheds somewhat, im not able to sit n hem wipes either but equally don’t want rags.

Asda little angels are really good wipes too. You can get extra sensitive from newborn which I think are around 70p for 64pk.

Cheeky wipes aren't £50. The minky bamboo ones are super soft and £25 for 25 wipes which is plenty. You don't need tthe boxes and oil. Just store them dry and wet as you need.

I have 50 cheeky wipes now because I got gifted some, I never run low! They cover faces, arses and everything in between. I'm almost on child 2 so they will be worth it environmentally and economically. Based on the costings above of wipes some people would spend £25 in a couple of months.

I think I’ve used every brand going over the last two years.. water wipes were SO much easier than the blooming cotton wool balls the hospital tried to make me use. We used them for about 3 months & then switched to Aldi with no problems. Decent amount of moisture but not too wet. Morrison’s, Pampers, Boots are all decent. My least favourite are Sainsbury’s own, they are soaking wet and come out about 50 wipes with one pull (annoying).

@Teachermaths the kit I’d seen was £40.99 for the basics, needed to upgrade the oils as the rose is the only one we won’t react to, wasn’t wanting to risk anything leaking/being used by someone else, and at the stage of several poops a day all of them being head to foot I doubted that 25 would’ve been enough. So again upgrading that adds more.

How do you work without atleast a dirty box when you’re out? I’d need a wet box too as most of our baby changes don’t have a bloody sink .. that in its own is gross to me.

Fortunately we use a face cloth for hands n faces in the house so it’s about 6 wipes a day now he’s slowed the explosions down with solids. So our bulk box has lasted us months. If I’d known I’d be in for round two £50 wouldn’t have seemed as much of a lay out but for one who obviously prebirth we didn’t assume he’d be the one allergic to so many random things we’d priced wipes at £5 for a big box and using them more like we do now than before we figured out all his explosive triggers so £5 for months of wipes and not having to physically wash every wipe myself as there’s no chance dp would deal with them touching his work shirts all came into play.

You don,t neeed oils. You don,t need a dirty box a sandwhich tub or something get from a takeaway will do. Washing wipesd is like washing underwhare in goes in the machine not hard.

PFB DD is three weeks and we've used Aqua Wipes. I wasn't messing with cotton wool and water but equally water wipes aren't biodegradable, so went with Aqua Wipes instead. Boots have recently launched their own brand biodegradable wipes which are 98% water and way cheaper, so will be switching to them.

Longer term I would like to try cheeky wipes but it just feels too much for me to cope with right now. The amount of washing I'm doing has already increased exponentially so I'm waiting until we get on more of an even keel before I try them.

@june2007, so two sandwich tubs to squash into the changing bag? As I said not all our changing areas have access to water so obviously you’re up a creek with no paddle with a dry cloth. I’m basing the oils n that off of when I went to order the kit originally as how the heck does someone who’s never used something know what you’re meant to use.

And again if ds has a blow out I have to hand wash it as dp wouldn’t put actual shit into the washing machine if his life depended on it... a wipe post bum most certainly doesn’t look like my knickers n if yours do I think you need to wipe more 😂. So physically standing to handwash, rinse, ring out and pray the fuckers are dry in time does seem awkward.. especially in the early weeks when I hadn’t time to eat a hot dinner sod hand wash 25/50 shitty cloths.

I’ll end up on repeat with the cloth warriors with no actual advice or help, just like the £100+ of cloth nappies that set his eczema off with either friction or heat. And yes I’ve strip washed them. And yes I was going to have to hand wash any that had a poop in them.

I used washable nappies too so shoved the wipes in the same wet bag once used. I just threw them in the nappy bucket pre potty training. Now the wipes go straight into the machine.
They don't generate more washing, they're so tiny they just go with whatever is in there at the time. I wash 3-4 loads per week and haven't run out yet with 50 wipes. I don't use as many at the moment since potty training but have a newborn arriving soon.

I used one pack of water wipes and then Aldi Mamia wipes - they are the very best by far.

Sounds like your dp has shit issues to be honest.

I've never been to a baby change without a tap either so that's definitely not the norm.

Aldi's Mamia brand for nappies and wipes.

Tesco do a box of 12 packs of 64 wipes for just £5.70. Lasts me ages!

@Teachermaths he has germ based ocd, antibac out the eyeballs, bleaching the toilet after every flush.. my eyes roll about my head like a mad woman but I pick my battles and shit in the machine seemed like a reasonably easy one until we had the bomb baby.

And our small town has crap baby changers.. one of them is just a room with an ikea baby change unit. At the other end from the loo so you get poo on you you’re fucked 😂. The joys of tiny towns trying to accommodate everything and not having actual space.

Store them damp in a sandwich box. But if cloth wipes aren,t your thing then fine.

@rubyroot no need to get defensive just because deep down you know your choices are screwing over the planet.

Typical.

These apparent do good comments. Like meat isn't the biggest factor.

No wipes for the first few weeks. They are cold and wasteful. You just need a little bit of cotton wool and some warm water for their tiny little poos.

Cotton wool and warm water for the first couple of weeks.
Water wipes after that.
Nappies I used pampers but now use little angels from Asda!
They are brilliant for the price.

My understanding is that people are the biggest factor, so as breeders we are all screwing over the planet!

Back to the question at hand though, I like Mum & You 100% Biodegradable Vegan Registered Plastic Free Baby Wet Wipes. 98% Water, 0% Plastic, Hypoallergenic & Dermatologically Tested. £17.99 for a pack of 12 (672 wipes in total) from Amazon. Not the cheapest but cheaper than Water Wipes and biodegradable (although not flushable).

@shinyblackdog I so wish there was an uptick function on this site