30 cloth wipes and 28oz wipes solution in 10 min for less than $5!

I have recently accepted the idea of cloth baby wipes. We already cloth diaper, so cloth wipes just make sense. I still use disposables for the messy #2's (we have a TON of disposables from my baby shower) but use the cloth for #1's.

Even if you don't cloth diaper, you can still make a small environmental impact by reducing the number of baby wipes you use and toss. It's easy, cheap, good for the planet and feels nice on baby's skin. If you cloth diaper you can throw them in with diaper laundry and if you don't you can just wash them with regular detergent and skip the fabric softener.

Like everything else, you can buy cloth wipes, but it's much cheaper to make them and you don't even need to know how to thread a needle.

To get started you'll need the following supplies which can be found just about anywhere, and they may possibly already be in your house. The fabric portion of this project may be laying in a pile of scraps you have been keeping around, or old bed sheets or shirts!

SUPPLIES
2 yards soft flannel fabric
Pinking shears
Plastic squirt bottle
3 cups warm water
1/4 cup baby wash
1/4 cup baby oil (we love Burt's Bees)

INSTRUCTIONS
1) Wash and dry fabric
2) Cut into 6"x8" rectangles using pinking shears (measure and mark back side of fabric if you need a guide)
3) Mix water, oil and baby wash and pour into squirt bottle

Voila!  You've just saved yourself $ and "greened" your family up a little bit!

NOTE: ALWAYS CLEARLY LABEL THE WIPES SOLUTION BOTTLE

TIP: It does help to sew a border around the edge to prevent fraying. If you don't sew the border, the edges will fray with the first few washes but just keep trimming the loose edges and it will stop. No-sew fleece may also be substituted, and as the name suggests, it does not require any sewing.

When it's time to use the wipes you can either store them dry and spray them before each use or you can stack them in a commercial wipes container, pour the solution over them and use as needed (if using this method do not let wipes sit for more than 4 days or they start to mildew). They fit nicely in diaper bags and you can find small travel size spritz bottles for carrying the wipes solution. Dry wipes can go right in the diaper bag and dirty ones can go in a plastic bag to be taken home, washed and reused.


*You can always mix lesser amounts of wipe solution, just use the 12:1:1 ratio.