Here are the Top 10 Uses for Baby Washcloths BEYOND Washing Your Baby
1.Use a Baby Washcloth For the Whole Family
Yes, this is pretty obvious. But everyone loves a super soft washcloth, not just babies.
My eldest daughter has a condition which means she has a lot of autistic behaviours, and using a super-soft washcloth to wash her face is so much easier as she enjoys it, rather than trying to fight me!
Toddlers often love sucking and chewing washcloths, so give them a high quality soft washcloth to play with and snuggle, rather than an old scratchy one.
Skin gets thinner and more sensitive with age, so using a super-soft washcloth can really help elderly people to wash without hurting their skin.
2. Use a Baby Washcloth to Remove Make-up
When removing make-up, most people will use cotton wool, or cotton pads. Or sometimes make-up remover wipes. These are one-use throw away products that often contain a lot of chemicals. So not only are they bad for the environment, they are bad for your skin too.
Removing particularly oily make-up can be tricky, and sometimes can take quite a bit of rubbing to remove.
So it’s really important to use a super-soft cloth such as a baby washcloth to avoid scratching your skin. By using a re-usable washcloth with some soap and water, you can effectively remove your make-up.
Then simply rinse the washcloth out and use again, or get a new one for the next day.
3. Use a Baby Washcloth Instead of Baby Wipes
Baby wipes are finally starting to get some bad press. We all already knew they must be bad for the environment, but the news is now picking up on this. Wet Wipes contain plastic and often chemicals.
They are often mistakenly put down the toilet and cause up to 93% of blockages in the sewers. Read this BBC article here.
However, as a busy mum, Wet Wipes are great as they are so easy. You can wipe your baby’s face, high chair, the floor… everything and just throw it away. So we are torn between what is easy and what is best for us to do.
4. Use a Baby Washcloth for Cleaning Baby’s Bottom
This is an obvious one, but as most people still use baby wipes at change time, we need to actively try new ways.
A baby washcloth is great for cleaning bottoms as it is super-soft. This really helps prevent nappy rash. Also if they have a sore bottom, you can clean it more delicately without hurting them.
What’ great about using a baby washcloth is that you can warm it in warm water, or use a little baby soap if you need. A nice warm washcloth or flannel is a lovely experience for the baby, rather than a gant de toilette bébé bio cold chemical-filled wet wipe.
If it’s a particularly messy nappy, you can rinse the washcloth through and repeat until they are clean.
Having several washcloths to hand can make it a quick and easy process. After changing baby you can rinse them through with fresh water to be used again that day, or just throw them in the wash.
When out and about, you can pre-wet some washcloths and keep them in the Tutti Bimbi Travel Wet Bag. When they are used, you can keep them in the wet bag as it holds all liquids and smells. Then when you are home you simply rinse them through and rinse out the wet bag.
5. Use a Baby Washcloth to Clean Baby’s Gums
I must admit, I’d never heard of this until Baby No. 3. She used to get milk residue stuck to her tongue, so her tongue looked white. I was first advised to use a baby toothbrush to try to brush her tongue, but even the baby ones had quite firm bristles.
So after washing her face I just used a warm damp organic bamboo baby washcloth to rub around her gums and mouth. It cleaned her perfectly and she enjoyed it much more than having a plastic toothbrush shoved in her mouth.
6. Use a Baby Washcloth for Teething
A teething drooling baby can be quite uncomfortable. They often want things to chew to relieve their sore gums. However many of the items we give them to chew are silicone or plastic, which makes them drool even more.
Instead, you can try freezing a baby washcloth for a few minutes to make it nice and cold, and then give it to your baby to play with. They can suck and chew on the soft cold cloth to relieve their gums. The washcloth is soft so it won’t hurt them.
Bamboo washcloths like the Tutti Bimbi Organic Bamboo Washcloths are also super absorbent, so they absorb all the drool at the same time!
7. Re-use an Old Baby Washcloth as a Rag for Cleaning
When some baby washcloths get used a lot, they can slowly begin to deteriorate. They may get some snags, holes or stains. But don’t throw them away! They are so useful that they make excellent cloths for cleaning, particularly delicate wood surfaces and windows.
Bamboo is also very absorbent so it is great for cleaning up spills. So never throw them away!
8. Re-use Baby Washcloths into Nappy or Sanitary Liners
Following with the theme of re-using and not throwing items into landfill. If you use cloth nappies, you will use nappy liners which are designed to take the worst of the nappy.
Many nappy liners are made from bamboo as it is absorbent and so pulls the liquid away from baby’s skin, and holds it. The same is true for sanitary liners.
So folding a baby washcloth in half to use a s a nappy or sanitary liner will not only be super-soft and absorbent, it will help reduce unnecessary waste.
9. Re-use Baby Washcloths as Breastfeeding Pads
When I breastfed my first daughter, I used disposable breast pads inside my bra. They worked, but I needed a lot and they were expensive! Also I didn’t like throwing so much away everyday.
For my other 2 babies I simply folded a baby washcloth into 4 and tucked it into my bra. This is comfortable as the soft organic bamboo didn’t irritate my skin, and when they were wet I could simply swap them out for a fresh one.
10. Making Washcloth Animals and Flowers
washcloth bunnyA new craze has begun with re-using baby washcloths to make new toys. Using different origami techniques and different coloured washcloths, you can fold and shape them to make animals, lollipops and flowers.
