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Best Homemade Baby Wipes

Submitted by: katydid 11/26/2008 2:31 PM

I started making these wipes with my first baby...they are so gentle - she never had diaper rash! Directions are as follows:

Ingredients:
1 tbsp. baby wash
1 tbsp. baby oil
1/2 roll of strong paper towels (cut the roll, including the cardboard tube, in half).
1 3/4 - 2 cups of water

Add all liquid ingredients to a tupperware container (about 6 or 7 inches in diameter, and about 6 inches high). put in the cut roll of paper towels, place top of the container on and turn the container upside down until the liquid absorbs. Remove the cardboard center, and pull wipes from the center.

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Thank you!
That is good to know. I use a similar recipe with my cloth baby wipes.

A dab of baby shampoo and a dab of baby lotion
(I like the huggies kind and 1 bottle of each has lasted me months, unlike a pack of baby wipes that lasted for a couple days with my 2 babies in diapers)
With cloth diapers it is a cinch to do cloth wipes! I know some mamas don't think to do this but it really helps save a buck!

Posted by Sara on November 27, 2008 12:38 AM

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Excellent "recipe". I just did it and the only thing i would change is, instead of laying the paper towel roll in the tupperware and closing it and flipping it upside down, I would use a 2-3 cup measuring cup and pour the liquid slowly onto the paper towel roll. I did it the original way and an inch of the center stayed dry. But excellent, excellent idea. Wish I would have known this in 2005... could have saved a lot of money!!!

Posted by mrshammer516 on November 28, 2008 2:31 PM

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I do this, but I place the paper towel roll in an old wipes container. Then I pour the water over the top, let sit 15min and tip over. Use.

Posted by Tasha on December 18, 2008 2:51 PM

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I did a modified version of this with my last two babies. I used 'select-a-size' paper towels, tore the towels apart and folded them in half, stacked in container and poured the solution over them.

They are the perfect size for your hand. Yes, it takes a little more time, but I found it better for me, than the 'pull from center' method. Either way, this does save a ton of money when you have little ones in diapers.

Posted by moneysavingmom on December 24, 2008 9:35 AM

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I make & carry these with me as an adult: & when children are with me; recipe: I prefer using cloth as can reuse endlessly! cut old t shirts, towels, or can use cheap washrags or old cloth baby diapers work wonderfully well; put 3% hydrogen peroxide on them which kills both bacteria & viruses; I carry inside cosmetic bag, with another of the same patterned differently gotten free to put the "used" ones into; only thing to remember is that hydrogen peroxide breaks down in light; so please carry in opaque things; THIS is far more effective than any antibiotic soaps etc on the market; & is safe for you, children, & planet: no toxins entering your body making you immune to antibiotics, creating "super bugs"; & it is CHEAP!

Posted by MzScarlett on December 26, 2008 4:26 PM

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To easily cut the paper towel you can use an electric knife.

Posted by heather on December 29, 2008 12:28 AM

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i am gonna try this! I am so excited about this site. I will probably still use Luvs wipes on the go but for home use ( which is most of the time) it sounds awesome! I am considering using cloth diapers for home use. I never wanted to but it doesn't sound all that bad. but it is an investment at first.

Posted by julie on April 25, 2009 12:31 AM

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Use an Organic soap and Organic olive oil or Grapeseed oil and you'll really have something wonderful..!!!

Posted by anonymous on June 24, 2009 8:23 PM

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I put my wipes in a Folgers coffee container.(34-36 oz size) Bounty paper towel,select-a-size fits perfect.I boil my water to sanitize it and added 1tlb baby oil, 1tlb Tea Tree Oil shampoo and 2 1/2 cups water. The best wipe I'ved ever used

Posted by gale osborn on June 25, 2009 9:29 PM

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These are great!

Posted by Mandy on September 16, 2009 11:25 AM

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