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  • Making a Wise Choice with Molly's Suds
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    Making a Wise Choice with Molly’s Suds

    With two young children, four animals, my husband, and myself running around my house, I do a lot of laundry each week. I have tried many different types of laundry detergent over the years with varying degrees of success. When recently offered the chance to review some Molly’s Suds products in exchange for my honest […] More

  • Homemade Laundry Detergent with Meliora K No Frills Soap Bars
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    Making Homemade Detergent with Meliora K

    To save my family some money, I first started making my own homemade laundry detergent last summer. After publishing my recipe, I received an offer to try the Meliora K No Frills Soap Bar. Unlike the Fels-Naphtha in my original recipe, Meliora K is a fragrance-free soap bar that contains only soap made from organic […] More

  • Air Drying Cloth Diaper Laundry
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    My Current Cloth Diaper Laundry Routine

    Since switching to cloth diapers in March 2013, I have tweaked my laundry routine every now and again. Most recently with the end of summer, I have started hanging up all my diapers including my inserts to air dry. Cloth diapering including cloth diaper laundry is such a personal experience for each cloth diaperer. After […] More

  • Laundry Detergents
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    Stinky Diapers? Use More Detergent

    Do you use cloth diapers? Do you find yourself dealing with diaper stink? Recently I have seen the topic of stinky diapers on a number of Facebook groups. Different fluff users will offer various solutions to diaper stink. As with all things cloth, the key to keep in mind when dealing with stinkiness is that […] More

  • Dirty Cloth Diapers in Wet Bag
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    How to Wash Cloth Diapers: My Cloth Diaper Laundry Routine

    Ask a group of cloth diapering mamas about washing cloth diapers, and you may get an assortment of answers. You will learn about different types of laundry detergents, whether or not to use bleach, wash cycles, and drying routines. When I first started out with cloth diapers, my biggest question was about washing the dirty […] More