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If you do cloth diapers in a front loading machine, what is your system? Is there HE baby detergent? What detergent do you use? Also what type of front loader do you have? Mine is an LG.
Do you soak in your diaper pail? My mom did but I could never get that to work for me.
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I don't have/do any of the above, but my sister has a front loader, and she received the recommendation of ALL HE for washing her baby clothes. HTH.
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I'm a beginning cloth diaperer, so I don't have a ton of experience. I have a Kenmore frontloader. I wash the diapers on the sanitary cycle with a prewash and extra rinse. I use about a tablespoon of Planet detergent. After it's gone I'm thinking of using either washing soda and simple green or a cheap generic brand that has no additives.
I do a dry diaper pail. I rinse the solid wasted off into the toilet (toilet dunk) and put everything in the pail. I wash every second or third day. I should wash every other day religiously, but I have yet to gain the discipline.
If the diapers aren't smelling clean, I do a cold wash and then the sanitary w/prewash and second rinse.
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I also use the dry pail method and find it works well with the front loader. My pail is lined with a nylon taffeta bag so I pull the bag out then "push" the diapers out of the bag and into the machine.
There is more information on diapers and front loading machines here.
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I use a dry pail
I never use the HE detergent for anything in spite of their recommendation (maytag).
I wash diapers with lots of Tide (my dipes can take tide, some can't... usually fuzzy bunz and other fleece dipes recommend special detergent), stain cycle, hot water, warm rinse, followed by a full cycle of cold/cold. every couple of washes I put vinegar in the first part of the second cycle.
I use my line outside to dry as often as possible. It's cheaper and the sunlight removes those lovely yellow stains! 
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Dry Pail. Sears HE detergent. I use liners for dirty diapers.
Rinse: Turn on a long wash cycle (cold water) w/scoop baking soda or vinegar. Stop it after 16 minutes and spin it.
Heavy Duty "Hot wash / cold rinse."
2nd wash - ecocycle, warm wash / cold rinse. Vinegar in the rinse cycle.
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I use the dry pail method and Tide Free. I'll drop a little bit of tea tree oil in the rinse agent compartment. And I throw in some dry oxyclean. I do a a rinse and spin first without any detergent and then I do normal wash with presoak, "high" soil level, second rinse, extended spin. Takes an hour and 31 minutes.
I use fuzzibunz and I can't say enough good things about them! They come clean with no stains at all (the first six months). Now that we've introduced food, there are a few lingering stains abut they usually come out the next time.
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Right now I have two pails -- one for just wet diapers, and that one is "dry" and another for soiled ones, that I soak in water and detergent.
So, if you use a dry pail for soiled diapers you only rinse off/dump out the solids? How rinsed off does it have to be? Doesn't a dry pail smell more?
Thanks!
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In my experience with using a dry pail, if you rinse or swish to get most of the you-know-what out of the dirty diapers, then the diaper pail doesn't smell very bad. I was mainly just smelling the wet diapers in there. That being said, I always swished pretty thoroughly. I've read before about people throwing dirty diapers while still heavily soiled but I can't understand how that would work with cleaning the whole load of diapers.
Oh, and I also add baking soda to my pail.
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This is a pretty neat product too: Mini-Shower
You hook it up to your toilet and it works like a little shower head that sprays the mess off of dirty diapers.
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I wash my dipes in powder Arm and hammer laundry soap (1/4 cup) with vinegar and tea tree oil in the first rinse.
My cycle goes:
Cold rinse, hot wash with soda, hot rinse with vinegar and TTO then cold rinse.
I have many types of dipes.
I only dry pail, just plop off any solids in the toilet (and only what comes off readily)
I wash on Tuesdays and Fridays
I have a GE double capacity FL
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