Do you use baby wipes for cleaning

tiredwithtwins

when my kids were little id put all three in the bath together, wash em all with the same flannel, then when they were getting dried id wipe around the bath/sink/sides with the flannel then bung it in the wash.
flannels are so cheap ... primarni's used to be about a quid for 4!
much more cheaper than buying wipes

ginnyknit

When my Dgs was born I fought his Mummy about using wipes then I saw a lady in a Cs cleaning a fabric couch with them and it came up lovely I now use a mixture. I have baby wipes for Dgs's bum and the furniture, loo wipes now he is toilet training, but I also have pieces of flannalette which I wash for the kitchen, surfaces and everything like that. Theres a designated cloth for the bathroom which is boiled with the towels. I dont use them on the boys face I have soft cloths for that. Like most things its personal choice, a pack of baby wipes lasts a few weeks and at 50p a pack thats not bad.

Spendless

I have some in for occasional use. Interestingly a thrifty American site I'm subscribed to, one of the site owners tells a tale on there of how she used to do professional cleaning and was always being told that you were to squirt the product onto the cloth not on to the surface*. She says that 15 years or so later wipes came on to the market, which was just the same idea.

*She says the one time you wouldn't do this is if somewhere required heavy cleaning, when you would squirt the product first and leave for a short while.

For myself, when cleaning the loo, I either use a brush and at the end of cleaning and then let the brush sit in bleach or use a cloth/rag that is on it's last legs and sling after use.

mioliere

I've just remembered another great use for baby wipes. When the weather is really hot I keep a packet of wipes in the fridge, and they are wonderful for cooling you off. Children seem to love this for some reason!

lobbyludd

I use baby wipes for stubborn stains on things, they have an amazing ability to remove even dried on gloss paint - makes me wonder what on earth is in them (DD's skin can't cope with even hypoallergenic ones).

I don't use wipes for anything else. The air-touching bits of the toilet are cleaned with toilet paper that is flushed down the toilet, bleach goes in the water and around the surfaces inside (we are in a very soft water area - I have no limescale problems). Everything else is a washable cloth - microfibre or a a piece of cotton scrim (I bought a roll years ago and cut a piece off as needed) or sponges with scrubby bits on, which as they get older go to dirtier and dirtier jobs and then are thrown as they start to disintegrate (this is about 12 a year).

msb5262

Having taken my class to visit the county waste and recycling centre, I'd never use wipes on a regular basis - they are awful for the environment! Also people flushing wipes can cause a lot of problems with the sewage system...please think again about using these if you can.

Eliza_2

I wonder if the split into 2 camps is between younger old-stylers and older (well, more mature!!) oldstylers. I hate anything disposable and have always had a 'floor cloth' and a duster bag of old rags, mostly ancient underwear or teeshirts, which are so soft for dusting, and old towels for floors, windows etc, and my nappies went on for years and years too - I still use some baby sheets cut up as dusters (and my babies are in their late 30s now).

Most stuff gets chucked into the washing machine or soaked overnight in a bowl of bleach solution depending on how it's been used.

Having said that, I do used baby wipes (just the very cheapest) in the car/campervan. I'm always racing around and to be able to have a quick freshen up or clean sticky fingers (secret chocolate orange eclair eater when driving!!!) before going to a meeting or visit etc is very handy. Equally a wipe round in the van is great.

However I do believe that wipes are yet another example of manufacturers creating a need for something we managed fine without before, then bringing lots of products onto the market to meet that manufactured need. My mum used to take a damp flannel in a plastic bag everywhere to clean us up when we were kids. She still does that now.

By the way, baby wipes wash really well, I wash them and reuse over and over. Use with babylotion to clean makeup or a quick squirt of bleach or washing up liquid for cleaning. Then back in washing machine to use yet again.

Liz

D&DD

I use cloths mainly but do confess to buying a box at a time of pampers wipes from Amazon..My house is not dirty by any means but I have 3 sons,OH who is just as mucky and three animals,plus I seem to be a dirt magnet when gardening etc so they do come in handy at times.For biro on a settee I haven't found anything as good.

sixtiesgal_2

I can see what people mean about the environment but wipes for cleaning do seem more hygienic as you can throw them away after use and even if we didn't have wipes, what about kitchen roll, toilet roll, cotton wool pads - they all get thrown away and are not reusable.

I think that convenience is the way of the future and wipes go hand in hand with that. I always use floor wipes because a) I don't have the room for a mop and bucket and b) I simply can't be bothered to fill a bucket, use the mop and keep wringing it out and waiting for my floors to dry. I just put a wipe on the floor, get out my flat mop and move the wipe around the floor and its clean and shiny. Anything too sticky that gets on the floor then I get a scouring pad and just bend down and scrub that area.

My Mum always used dusters and cloths but wipes were unknown then, like disposable nappies and paper tissues but how many people now use terry nappies and handkerchiefs that you wash and use again?

notanewuser

mummypops wrote: »

Definitely use them to clean my bins, but baby wipes are also brilliant at removing small stains from clothes, in particular toothpaste from school uniform.
I wouldn't be without them.

Best thing for cleaning wedding dresses and shoes too - but must be ones without lanolin to avoid marks. (Value ones tend to be pretty good.)