babywipes recipe

 I just about killed myself laughing at the following blog I read today. And thought I’d share with all you Frugal people.

So, I decided to make my own baby wipes. My daughter, who is 10 months old, is still fully in diapers, and my son, who recently turned three, is in the midst of potty training and we still have him in diapers/pull-ups a portion of the time. I spend what seems like an insane amount of money each month on diapers and wipes for the two of them, so I had this bright idea to make my own baby wipes. Other people do it, why not me?

There are numerous recipes out there on the internet, and I picked a fairly simple one. Saw a roll of paper towels in half (the short way, I think… no one really specified), mix water, a little baby oil, and a little baby soap in a pan, and soak the towels in it. Then take the cardboard roll out of the middle and put the towels in an old baby wipes container and Wa La! Done. Okay… that sounds easy. Except I’m still not sure which way I am supposed to cut the paper towels. But we’ll give it a whirl.

Well, I don’t actually have baby oil on hand, so I bought a huge bottle on my weekly shopping trip. Not that I needed a huge bottle…but apparently huge is what you get when you want baby oil. Has no one heard of travel sized? So far this already cost me as much as a package of baby wipes so it better work.

I came home and set up my system. I sawed the paper towels in half with a bread knife… not the easiest of tasks and I got little paper towel fluff all over my kitchen, and then I mixed the warm water , baby oil, and baby soap in a pan and plopped the paper towels in it. A few minutes later, I flipped them over and soaked some more. By this time they were pretty wet, so I found the end of the roll of paper towels, pulled it out a little, and plopped them in the plastic container with the hole in the middle placed horizontally.

When I pulled on the paper towel end…. it ripped off and the roll didn’t budge. Well…. oops. That can’t be how to dispense them. I thought about it for a while, then turned the roll so it was sitting with the hole in the middle vertically. The roll was now too big for the container. Well… hmm again. I was using a standard wipes container, and I used a fairly average roll of paper towels. So I squished them down a bit until they fit and again found the end of the roll. I pulled… and it worked! So I put the lid on the container…. and now they didn’t work. The roll just got stuck. At this point I pondered having a drink.

After studying it for a while, I came up with the bright idea of pulling the towels out of the center of the roll. And… Wa La again! it worked. Even with the lid on. Feeling quite accomplished, I called it a day.

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Here’s a Recipe I found for Making Babywipes:

1 tbs Baby Lotion
1 tbs Baby soap
1 tbs Baby Oil
1 cup Boiling Water

Instructions

Take your paper towel and cut the roll in half. Cut it right down the middle and remove the cardboard core.
Alternatively you could use a thick unscented toilet paper roll with the core removed.

Mix the lotions, soap and oil together with the water.
Place the roll into an old, clean nappy wipes container or a similar tub

Pour the solution over the wipes and allow them to soak.

They are ready to use.

You can swap the ingredients to suit your babies skin, by using your own trusted products.