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29 Diapers’ 29 Days of Christmas, Day 5: Thirsties Cloth Diapers Review & Giveaway

29 Diapers’ 29 Days of Christmas, Day 5: Thirsties Cloth Diapers Review & Giveaway

Welcome to 29 Diapers’ 29 Days of Christmas! This huge eco-friendly event runs the 29 days from Black Friday through Christmas Eve, and features gift ideas and giveaways from all kinds of great eco-friendly and high-quality family brands.

This year we’re going even bigger and better, with hundreds of prizes. 29 Diapers is all about helping parents make green parenting products affordable, so if you don’t win one of these giveaways, you could also find some exclusive holiday discounts mixed in to these reviews. Merry Christmas and happy holidays, green mamas!

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29 Diapers’ 29 Days of Christmas, Day 4: Motherlove Diaper Rash & Thrush Cream Review & Giveaway

29 Diapers’ 29 Days of Christmas, Day 4: Motherlove Diaper Rash & Thrush Cream Review & Giveaway

Welcome to 29 Diapers’ 29 Days of Christmas! This huge eco-friendly event runs the 29 days from Black Friday through Christmas Eve, and features gift ideas and giveaways from all kinds of great eco-friendly and high-quality family brands.

This year we’re going even bigger and better, with over 100 prizes. 29 Diapers is all about helping parents make green parenting products affordable, so if you don’t win one of these giveaways, you could also find some exclusive holiday discounts mixed in to these reviews. Merry Christmas and happy holidays, green mamas!

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How To Make Your Own Laundry Detergent

How To Make Your Own Laundry Detergent

I have tested my first laundry detergent recipe, and I seem to have lucked out and found an easy to make laundry detergent that cleans well and leaves clothes and cloth diapers fresh. I’m thinking of this like buying the first dress you try on in a store. If you like it, just buy it. You can try on all the other dresses and none of them will fit like the first.

So, how do you make homemade laundry detergent?

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How To Fold Flat Diapers, Technique #2: The Kite Fold

How To Fold Flat Diapers, Technique #2: The Kite Fold

If you don’t care to do origami every time you fold a diaper, there is a simpler option for folding flat diapers: the kite fold. I noticed that this fold required a little more tucking around the legs to make it snug, but it works great, just like the origami fold. Here is the Kite Fold

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How To Fold Flat Diapers, Technique #1: The Origami Fold

How To Fold Flat Diapers, Technique #1: The Origami Fold

I’ve made it far enough in my flat diapers experiment to figure out folding techniques, yay! Baby girl and Pinky the Elephant obliged for some photos for you all, so here they are. There are quite a few since I wanted to break it down step by step, so we’ll start with the origami fold–the one that has most folks running scared. Honestly it’s not that complicated once you figure it out, but even I was intimidated by the instructions

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Winner of the Charlie’s Soap Giveaway & What’s Next for 29 Diapers

Alisha Lesage! You’re our winner. Congrats, Alisha. You won an 80-load package of Charlie’s Soap for your natural laundry routine, a $45 value! I have emailed you. Please respond within 72 hours to claim your prize. Thanks, everyone, for sen email Facebook Twitter Digg del.icio.us StumbleUpon Technorati Reddit Google Buzz

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