Best Detergent for Cloth Diapers
Powder detergents like Tide Ultra OXI Powder are the most effective for cloth diapers. This high-performance powder detergent comes with built-in pre-treaters, surfactants, and enzymes, which attack the toughest stains and target odors. Tide original is the gold standard for cloth diapers. It’s the detergent you can trust to consistently get diapers clean no matter what your water conditions or needs.
Ingredients to Avoid for Cloth Diapers
Some common diaper cream ingredients that can cause staining, repelling, or odors and should be avoided are petroleum/petroleum jelly, paraffin, cod liver oil, and calamine.
Washing Cloth Diapers
If the dirty diaper has some solid number twos in it, just shake the waste off into the toilet, or use a diaper sprayer to rinse with cold water.
Precautions with Detergents
Oxi-type cleaning products are good if needed when added to the hot cycle for extra disinfection but do not use it as a detergent. Enzymes are not bad. They are a detergent additive that influences performance based on a number of different factors.