Homemade Baby Wipes

I saw an interesting pin on Pinterest the other day and it caught my attention, Homemade Baby Wipes. Since I'm always looking for ways to save money in other areas so I can spend it on safe foods, I thought this would be a neat thing to give a try.  Here is the link that has a great tutorial and all the info you will need to make your own baby wipes. http://theehingers.blogspot.com/2010/10/homemade-baby-wipes.html

So I drug all 3 boys out of the house today and made a trip to Target to get all the stuff I would need to make my very own wipes. First up I needed to make sure I could find an air tight container to keep them in, this was the biggest investment for these wipes, but should pay for itself over time. I was really looking for a round one like the one shown on the blog, but no such luck. But I did find a square one. It's an OXO SoftWorks 2.6qt. It has a neat push button top that seals it and makes it airtight.

Next I needed to find a good, extra gentle baby wash to use in the solution. My youngest gets really horrible diaper rashes whenever he is having a reaction to something and when that happens the wipes we normally use irritate his skin and make him cry, so we usually end up using paper towels soaked in warm water or a soft washcloth. Boy do I hate doing the laundry on those. There's a reason folks why I don't use cloth diapers, the laundry! My first thought for a gentle baby wash to use was the Burt's Bee's line. Well I happened to take a look at the ingredients, I do at everything now days, and low and behold, hydrolyzed soy protein is used in it! What?! Why?! So I put that one back up on the shelf as quick as can be. Next I went over to the California Baby line and took a look at their stuff. Much more expensive. They have a super sensitive line so I took a look at the ingredients and they have corn derived ingredients. Nope, that one went back on the shelf as well. I was starting to think I was not going to find one that would work for what I wanted. Then I looked at the very bottom shelf and there was a brand I hadn't seen before, BabyGanics. From what I could read, nothing that should cause a problem and the bottle was half what the California Baby brand was.

Next I went and picked up the roll of Bounty Select-A-Size paper towels and made sure they would fit into the container. Yep, they would work so off to check out we went. This takes fronting some money in the beginning, but should pay me back over time.

The hardest part was cutting the paper towel roll in half. That definitely took some elbow grease, but I really need to sharpen my knives. It took a little bit of time for the paper towels to soak up the solution, maybe about 15 mins. But the center cardboard tube came out easily after that and it was very easy to find the end of the roll in the center and pull it up.