Reusing cottons for nappies

Check the thrift stores for used cotton terry towels, for bath and kitchen. Also check for xxl men's cotton tee shirts and flannel fabric. Use 3 layers of cotton terry, with 2 layers of cotton jersey, cut from old tee shirts or two layers of flannel. The cotton jersey or flannel will be smoother, and less irritating against the baby's skin.  To save on energy costs, pocket diapers are better than all-in-one. You can line dry the eco-PUL separately and it'll last longer too.

You can also reuse old, 100% cotton quilts with cotton insulating fabric and 100% cotton comforters also. Just serge them into a pocket diaper liner shape. Use quilting thread for the edging so it can withstand laundering. Presoak, wash, preshrink and iron everything first. If used fabrics, then soak 72 hours in eucalyptus or tea tree oil with liquid detergent in hot water.

Recipe for soaking used nappie fabrics:

1 cup tea tree oil/eucalyptus oil
5 gallons hot water
2 cups All Free and Clear liquid detergent
1 cup baking soda

Soak a load for 72 hours in that. Handwring it, then load into washing machine, on hot water setting, with 2 more cups of unscented, liquid detergent.  Use a second rinse cycle of plain water for the washing machine. Also, it's good to add 2 cups of white vinegar to the second rinse cycle to get the residue off from those pre-soaking ingredients. Avoid using vinegar on the PUL fabric, or all-in-one diapers as it damages it.

This may help kill those dust mites, scabies, fleas, lice nits, bed bugs, crabs, ticks, chiggers, viruses, bacteria, fungus, roach eggs, rat/mice droppings, poisonous spider eggs, pinworms/intestinal parasites and anything else harmful in the used fabric for the reusable nappies.

To preshrink, so nappies don't bunch up and cause discomfort, put presoaked, washed fabrics into dryer on hottest temperature for 2 hours per load.