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squoggs 
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Posted: 07 July 2011 at 1:38pm |
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Do you just do a hot wash or is there some special way of stripping nappies with RG? I have ordered some but yet to receive it. Tried the baking soda & vinegar strip, but think they need a little more help
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Posted: 07 July 2011 at 1:41pm |
Fill a bucket with warm water and one/two tablespoons of Rockin Green and soak your inserts/nappies overnight then wash in a normal wash with no powder the next day 
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Posted: 07 July 2011 at 1:54pm |
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Sorry to TJ, but can you strip them without RG? I only have ecostore for the nappies, and persil for everything else
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Posted: 07 July 2011 at 2:44pm |
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You can buy sample packs for about $3 which will do two strip washes.
Otherwise yes you can use other products. You can do a wash with white vinegar and baking soda, however this is not a good option for natural fibres like hemp or bamboo. Or you can get some cheap dishwashing liquid and use that in a wash (its so 'good' at cleaning your dishes that it will eat away at the build up)
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Posted: 08 July 2011 at 6:36am |
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i do the dishwashing liquid way, its worked great so far (and not bad for your nappies tooo) (you dont need to strip them very often tho, ive done it twice)
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Posted: 08 July 2011 at 9:29am |
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You dont need rocking green for a strip. the whole point of stripping your nappies is to get rid of a build up of detergents and if your nappies are new they shouldnt need stripping. In fact they shoulndt need stripping unless you have been using too much detergent or using nappy rash creams and think they have clogged the nappies.
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Posted: 08 July 2011 at 12:24pm |
oh thats good to know, we've only been using them a few weeks 
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Posted: 08 July 2011 at 6:39pm |
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wriggles,
how much dishwashing liquid do you use...?
i tried vinegar/baking soda to strip my nappies and i dont think it was that great after 2 uses i they were smelly again.
hope that dishwash liquid would work better.
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iceland
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Posted: 08 July 2011 at 7:01pm |
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um im not sure as I have never done it. Hopefully Emmi will see this and say. I would try the Rockin Green tho, its REALLY good at getting rid of smells and build up.
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Posted: 08 July 2011 at 7:27pm |
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I have just bought some RG and stripped my nappies and it worked really well, the nappies no longer smell
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Posted: 09 July 2011 at 2:27am |
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I use 1/4 of a cup on a hot wash and then rinse till there are no more bubbles (I only have stripped the inners not the outers, if you wanted to strip the shells I wouldnt use a hot wash)
I have some RG to try when I get home (we are out of the country for a few more weeks), Im hoping it doesnt affect DDs bum (she has very sensitive skin and bad eczema) but we will try and see!
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Posted: 10 July 2011 at 12:55am |
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Just been buying a whole lot of 2nd hand nappies - another 9! So I can finally get "in" to cloth. Got some RG sample packs to do a strip wash on all of them first.... verrrryyyy exciting. Still going to go part time on cloth until I get the hang of what I need when (and even then I will probably still have a sposie as a back up!) So scary... But I know I can do it!
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Posted: 10 July 2011 at 7:49pm |
Yay Amalyse 
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Posted: 11 July 2011 at 1:46pm |
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hi,
and thanks for the replies..
so i tried the diswashing liquid ( i used Morning fresh sensitive as i was bit worries about the diswash liquid being bit harsh on skin etc esp. as my daugher has bad eczema) and i was really please with the result.
no smell and think the build up is gone too so back to good absorbancy again.
thanks so much for the idea!!! i think i stick with it, works better (at least for me) then vinegar/baking soda and dont have to buy RG or other extra products.
thank,
iceland
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Posted: 11 July 2011 at 2:42pm |
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I've done strip washes with both rockin green and dishwash liquid and I by far prefer the washing liquid method, it is more time intensive but IMO does a far better job. I do it the same way as Emmi suggested
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Posted: 11 July 2011 at 9:24pm |
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Can you do the detergent method in a front loader? Just cos I know that too much foam can damage the machine
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Posted: 11 July 2011 at 10:09pm |
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random Question,
but DP has white singlets that dont look so white anymore, they have a yellow tint now.
will RG help whiten them? napisan oxywhite made no difference.
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Posted: 13 July 2011 at 11:24am |
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I just did a hot wash plus soak with RG yesterday and I can still smell pee on some of my AIO's. Not happy that FIL took them out of the dryer before they were properly dry though and I didn't find them until this morning, so there probably lies the problem! I was pissed!
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