Cheeky Wipes: Eco Friendly Reuseable Baby Wipes

Baby wipes are just a fact of life for those still in diapers and sure we've told you how to make your own (using old receiving blankets and from paper towels), but what if you aren't the DIY kinda person? Cheeky Wipes has you covered and claims to make a bum job better (bah dum ching). Learn more after the jump...

Helen Blaber lives in the UK with her husband and 3 kids and is the mastermind behind Cheeky Wipes. For quite some time she had been the one one in her circle of friends to use handmade, reuseable baby wipes. She wanted to be able to share the effectiveness (both in use and in cost) with them and thus, Cheeky Wipes were born.

You begin with a clean tub and fill it with a small amount of water and then a few drops of essential oil blend. Add the towels and you're ready to begin using them. After using they go into a separate container with the same water and oil blend and inside a mesh bag, eliminating the need to touch them again. Simply throw the bag in your normal warm/hot wash load.

There's no need to dry them, simply wash, refold and place back in the clean box and you're all set!
They do ship their kits to the US and if you're nervous about getting started in making your own set up, it seems like a great system to try out!

(Images via Cheeky Wipes)

(Via Babygadget)

Comments (5)

We used cut up old t-shirts and tap water for wipes when our daughter was born. It was great and between those and the cloth diapers, she never got diaper rash.

posted by standupstapler on April 29th 2009 at 11:54am
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What a great idea for a baby shower gift.

posted by That Perfect Something on April 29th 2009 at 12:59pm
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Don't know if they'd clean as well as the system that I have been using for my kids, which is really simple too.

I bought 6 dozen velour/sherpa wipes from WAHMs, and a Prince Lionheart DiaperWipe warmer (makes a HUGE difference to have warm cloth wipes -- both in terms of comfort for the baby, but also in terms of cleaning ability).

My wipe solution is 80 ounces distilled water, 12 drops tea tree oil, 12 drops lavender oil, 2 TB pure aloe vera gel, 1TB grape seed oil, and 1TB Dr. Bronner soap. Mix up in a RubberMaid Juice jug once a week, and you're all set.

Dirties go into a diaper pail, which gets dumped into the washing machine (no further touching there either), are washed at 95 degrees C, and dried (hot air drying also destroys bacteria -- a step I would counsel not avoiding, as advised by Cheeky Wipes, especially if your washing machine does not boil laundry -- i.e., have a 95C setting).

posted by mschatelaine on April 29th 2009 at 4:00pm
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We used plain water and plain cheapo target baby was clothes for the first seven months. Worked fine. No rash ever. You wash clothing so frequently with an infant it was never an issue.

The washclothes go on to fill a 1,000 different purposes.

We switched to disposable wipes after solids and now use Nature Babycare Unscented. They are compostable and non-plastic.

The wipes above look very nice though....

posted by JudiAU on April 29th 2009 at 5:32pm
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I only used disposabe and am feeling guilty!

but I don't think you're supposed to use tea tree oil on kids....my OB definitely told me not to use it when pregnant. I'd check with the ped on that.

posted by kjirsty on May 1st 2009 at 10:01pm
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