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question Hard to clean Sandy's? (christinet)
Posted: 5:32:38 pm on 5/10/2009 Modified: Never
 
I bought some secondhand Toddleease Sandy's (white and organic/unbleached).  The unbleached ones seem, well, dirty.  The colour is not uniform - darker in areas, lighter in others.  Is this typical for unbleached diapers? I assumed they would be the same colour all over. Instead, there are dark stains in the elastic area around the legs. Actually, the whites ones are darker there too.  Is it the style of the diaper that it can't get clean, or the sun can't reach the leg part?  (Maybe I've just solved my query?!) Previously I've only ever used white OS.

Thanks,
Curious in Canada  
  Re: Hard to clean Sandy's? (KarenC)
Posted: 7:56:22 pm on 5/10/2009 Modified: Never
 

Sounds just like a normal stain to me, nothing to do with being unbleached. Perhaps the previous owner used disposable or fleece liners to catch most of the poop but some ran off and that's why it's only the rufflle part that's stained. Or maybe as she cleaned off the poop she didn't clean off that part as well so it stained more. Probably no particular reason, they're just stained. The sun will probably take most of that out (I don't think the ruffles change much when it comes to sunning, at least not in my experience). I suppose the ruffles may make it slightly harder to clean off as much poop when dunking or whatever, but in general I wouldn't say that Sandy's are any more difficult to clean or any more likely to stain...

Karen.

  Re: Hard to clean Sandy's? (aavt)
Posted: 8:06:16 pm on 5/10/2009 Modified: 8:06:40 pm on 5/10/2009
 
I use my Sandys mostly at night so don't get much poop on them, but I do think they are harder to get stains out off by the ruffle.  Once when I was selling some Sandys for a friend, to get rid of the darker-ruffle stains, I soaked the diapers in lemon juice and hung them on the line, over two lines, kind of stretching the leg openings a bit, since, as noted, the sun can't get inside the cinched-in ruffles.  That really helped, but obviously not something you want to mess with every time.  Sun-bleaching the OS is easier because you can just drape them over the line with the middle part upwards and the sun can hit everything.  Sun-bleaching aside, unless the poop really really gets into the ruffles, I don't think the Sandys are really any harder to dunk/rinse.
  Re: Hard to clean Sandy's? (KarenC)
Posted: 8:08:56 am on 5/11/2009 Modified: Never
 

I never had to go that far to sun stains out of my Sandy's. Granted I only had to deal with solid poop stains on unbleached diapers for a couple months, then I dyed them. But before that my Sandy's were all natural in color and I just hung them on the line, and the stains in the ruffles came out just as easily as those in the middle of the diaper.

Karen.

  Re: Hard to clean Sandy's? (aavt)
Posted: 10:20:59 am on 5/11/2009 Modified: Never
 
I do suspect these stains had been there for a long time, and I know that my friend used the dryer and rarely sunned, so they were just getting continually baked in.
 
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