Moms and Bums – Review

If you are a mom (or Dad) that is concerned for your baby’s future world, Moms and Bums is a place you should put on your must list to shop. Tanya Bell is the owner of this online store and makes shopping from pregnancy to nursing and everything in between an easy one stop shop at Moms and Bums. Moms and Bums will take care or all your natural parenting needs.  This is perfect for a mom like me that both uses cloth diapers and breastfeeds!

Tanya sent me a Pail Pal Deodorizing Disk to review.  The Pail Pal disk is just that – a disk that you put in the bottom of your diaper pail to keep your diapers smelling fresh while waiting to be washed.  I try to wash my little girls diapers every 3 days or so, I have 28 cloth diapers, so we are usually good for 3 days, sometimes more, sometimes less.  By the 3rd day, the basement starts to have a faint smell of,,, well,,, poop and pee!  It’s true.  We put all the dirty diapers in the basement bathroom and close the door so the smell doesn’t escape too badly.  The smell isn’t unbearable, it’s not even really THAT bad, but it is there.  When I put the deodorizer in the bottom on the diaper bucket, I thought it would be interesting to see if it was going to work. Because I was putting diapers on top of the disk, I wasn’t sure if the smell was strong enough to make it past the dirty diapers.  Sure enough, the next time I went downstairs, the whole basement had a very nice fresh lavender scent.  Not a single hint of poop or pee, just a nice and fresh summer breezy scent.  It was a pleasure to go downstairs as the scent was actually quite relaxing.  It was nice to go there to wash the diapers and just smell the air. To my surprise, the Pail Pal worked for 2 – 3 loads of diapers, so about a week or so.  For $1, it really adds a beautiful smell to your home.  I’d go for it.  If you have a real diaper pail, there is a little spot in the bottom that you can place the disk in and it fits perfectly, this way your disk is suppose to last up to 3 weeks.  If your pail don’t have a little hole, you can tape the pail pal to the top of your diaper pail cover – now, why didn’t I think of that?

I also got to review the wipe cubes from Moms and Bums.  Upon first receiving the cubes I thought that only a really hard core eco-friendly person would use reusable wipes.  But, I was willing to give it a go.  I didn’t have any cloth wipes, so Tanya told me I could use the wipe cubes on my regular disposable wipes.  So, I saved a weeks worth of wipes, and put them in the wash, and then the drier and I could hardly believe how many wipes there were.  They must have doubled in the drier.  I try so hard to take care of the environment by using cloth diapers, then I just use and throw out all these wipes. Something was wrong with this picture.  If I could reuse these wipes, why haven’t I been doing it?  Well, I didn’t know that they could be reused, and it sounded like a lot of work.  I will tell you all, it was not a lot of work at all.  Only one more load of laundry, and if you wanted to, you could probably throw them into the same load as your diapers.  Just throw your diapers and wipes all in the same pail and then wash them all at once.

The wipe cubes worked great.  You put one cube in 2 cups of warm water.  To get the wipes ready, I folded them back and forth so that when I pulled one wipe out, the next one would be waiting.  I first tried to pour the solution on top of the wipes, but found that did not work well. My mother suggested putting the solution in the bottom of the wipe case and then placing the wipes in and sure enough, that worked great!  I let them sit and soak up all the water and voila, the wipes were ready to go again.  I could not believe how easy it was. The wipes were wet all the way through.  The ones on top were a little drier and the ones on the bottom were a little wetter, but they all worked well enough to get my baby’s bottom clean.  I think you can probably wash and reuse your wipes 3 or 4 times even.  What a saving on the environment.  Even if you only reuse them once, you are still saving the environment!  The cube wasn’t even all the way dissolved and therefore could be used again as well.

I also found other uses around the house for your washed wipes.  I use them as liners in diapers, so when baby poops, it wont stain her diaper.  My mother also uses them on the Swiffer to dust the floor.  The dust sticks to it.  So don’t throw out your old wipes, reuse them and save the world one wipe at a time.  Reusing wipes or cloth wipes not only save the world, but it’s good in your pocket book too.  With cloth wipes, you will only have to purchase them once and they will be good for all your diapering days.

Challenge:

I challenge all my readers that still have babies in diapers, to save a weeks worth of wipes, wash them, and reuse them.  Write a comment here how easy it was.

Buy it:

To purchase the Pail Pal, the wipe cubes and other natural parenting items visit Moms and Bums.

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