thanks so much for coming back to my youtube channel on today's episode of eerie style I'm going to show you guys how I go about watching my cloth diapers to make sure that they are 100% clean and ready to go so on YouTube you'll find a whole lot of videos about a lot of people that use all-natural ingredients and things like that but for me I want to make sure that my diapers are 100% clean so I make sure to use regular detergent the strongest detergent that I can find basically and I just make sure that her cloth diapers are clean it's more important for me to have clean diapers than have her be exposed to some of the ingredients that are in the detergent because a lot of it while most of it if not all of it should be getting washed away anyway so I'm just gonna go ahead and show you guys what my routine is and how I cloth how I wash my cloth diapers OH basically when you first get your crosstalk which what I do is when they're new I go ahead and wash them twice I the first cycle I use a hot basically a hot quick wash I let it wash there really quickly with no detergent or anything and then the second wash I let everything washed through taking all the cloth diapers off the sides of the barrels making sure that they're all nice and fluffed out for the second wash and then I wash in hot water again I use Thai powder detergent and so I basically pour the powder into the stream let the barrel fill all the way up and then wash as normal throw them in the dryer and you're done okay so that is how I do when I have first um but I basically have brand new diapers I just do hot wash regular wash done I wash them twice okay so when my cloth diapers are have been soiled and they're dirty basically I follow the same routine what I do is I go through and I put all of I make sure to take all of the inserts out of the pocket diapers and make sure everything is ready to wash I also make sure and spray off my dirty diapers to let them soak so basically they're they're clean never I put them in the wash because I washed them spray like I get all the poop off and then I let them sit in OxiClean and water I'm not allowed out to clean just a tiny tiny bit with hot water until all this thing's lift and then I put them in the wash so back to my routine so the first wash again is a quick wash so some watchers say like colors is white some say quick wash or you know delicates or whatever basically look at your manual and figure out what's the quickest wash because that first one you're just trying to get rid of the PM poop so I put a little bit of detergent a little bit of time into the stream I let the barefoot all the way up with water and then I put my cloth diapers in and I use a stick to poke them all the way down in the barrel ok guys so as you see here I have my dirty diapers so anyway I'm just gonna show you guys basically what I do so this is my washer and I'm just going to here are my settings I have it set to head extra heavy because I usually have a lot of diapers in there but I'm actually gonna turn this down to medium cuz I only have a few I keep this on hot cold and then the load size I'm gonna turn to medium so this is just the way that my washer is set up it's gonna go like that then what I make sure and do and I feel my detergent with just a small amount of detergent so this is not even up to that first line and I pour it into the stream Wow that's filling up I'll just show you guys what I do with my diapers so I make sure and take my diapers the wipe and align it out then I make sure to take the inserts out of the diaper you have to take your inserts out of the pocket otherwise it will not get clean good and then I take all of this over to the washer and put it inside ok as you can see here now the barrel is medium-weight full I turn all my wet bags right the wrong side out and put those in the wash and then I just toss in all my cloth diapers pretty evenly okay as you see here I have everything in here and I'm just taking the end of my broom which is really used to knock on my diapers down and I just make sure that everything is covered with water and I won't show you guys every single step but basically once I'm done washing this first one I will add a cup of OxiClean to the load and I will make sure to scrape all the diapers off the outside of the barrel let it wash again a second time through and everything will be clean so I wash my cloth diapers in hot water this is the way that I do it you don't have to do it this way but this is the way that I do it in my diapers come out smelling amazing and clean I haven't had any issues so I watched them twice the first time just a tiny bit of detergent in hot water the second time a regular cup of detergent some OxiClean and I let the barrel fill all the way up with water both times making sure that none of the things are stuck to the side of the barrel and then I just let them wash as normal throw them in the dryer and you're done one of the great things I love about having Alva baby diapers is that they are pretty inexpensive I've heard of people washing and drying them some people even use bleacher and things like that and they haven't had any issues with the elasticity of the diaper is wearing out or anything like that but even if you do have an issue and like say over time after a year or so the elastic starts to wear down you can spend five or six bucks a diaper and replace them it's not like some of these $50 diapers or however much they are this just ridiculously expensive so so that's the only thing just a tip is to never ever use anything with fabric softener in it or anything of that nature because that will definitely break down the liner on your diaper so you definitely do not want to use any fabric softener or anything like that don't get too extra girl some people you sent boosters and stuff like that I really don't see a need because the tie it smells pretty strong and smells good anyway so I just keep it simple regular and detergent I've even used like the already's brand detergent before and they came out fine but I think what people mess up is they try to use like free and clear or like country save or some of these are really really um like fragrance free detergents and things like that and they're just not strong enough to get you know hours of pee and poop out of a diaper so they end up having things like barnyard stink ammonia issues and things like that so I think the main thing is just to use a good detergent making sure to wash them twice I always wash them twice and I always make sure to get all the poop off of every single diaper and I really think that it's a trick and making sure that I've never had any stains I've never had any issues whatsoever with staining or they're still being poop on my back right after I wash them nothing like that so as long as you get all the poop off and like sometimes as I said I work part time so I have a little extra time just to that even if you don't want to use oxy clean and let them stuff you can just let it soak in some hot water right after they poop and honestly the same is going to come out so anyway that's what I do guys thanks so much for watching this video and we'll see you on my next one bye