Homemade Cloth Diaper Wipes Solution Cubes Recipe and Directions | #ClothDiapers #diy
If you’re looking to save money (and shipping time) on wipes solutions cubes, here’s a simple and cost effective way to make your own from ingredients you probably have in your own home. You can put the money you saved in a children’s ISA account.
Ingredients:
- 1 Bar Unscented Castile Soap
- Coconut or Olive Oil
- Essential Oils
- Water
If you don’t have Castile Soap at home, you can pick up a bar at Whole Foods for under $4.
Step 1
Grate or chop the bar of Castile Soap very finely. You’ll want to use the finest grate, as this will make the melting and melding process easier. I used a bar of Dr. Bronner’s Unscented Baby Soap.
Pour the grated soap into a saucepan over low to medium heat.
Step 3
Add 1-2 tablespoons of Coconut Oil or Olive Oil to your grated soap. In this recipe, I used Tropical Traditions Coconut Oil. Stir in incorporate the oil into the soap.
Step 4
Add several drops of your choice of Essential Oil (tea tree oil, lavender oil, (whatever you’d like to use). I used Gritman Lavender Oil for this batch! You can start off by doing 3-6 drops, and add more right before you take if off the heat if you’d like more scent. (I added about 15 drops, but I love lavender! )
Step 5
Add just enough water (OR if you’re really into it, chamomile tea!!) to cover the soap, oil, and essential oil mixture. This will help melt and bind the ingredients together. Don’t be alarmed, though, the water will simmer out!
Step 6
Stir the mixture as much as you can. The water will begin to simmer, and the mixture will reduce down to a clumpy pasty substance. Some soaps melt better than others. With this recipe, the soap will take a lot of water and a lot of time to render down into a more clear liquid. Pasty and clumpy is fine!
Step 6
After the water has simmered and evaporated out of the mixture, pour it into a heat safe bowl! If you’d like to speed up the process, make sure your bowl is freezer safe as well. You can do this one of two ways. If you pour it into a ceramic or glass bowl, you might want to line it with foil or some kind of parchment paper so that you do not have to bang your breakables to remove it. OR you can use a BPA free plastic container so that you can bang it out after it hardens!
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Step 7
Allow to cool on the counter or in the freezer. I like to fast track, so in the freezer they went! The lighter color you see in the above photo is the bits of soap that hardened a bit that I scraped off the sides. This is fine!
Step 8
The brick will cool and harden into a light soap color like the solid bar of Dr. Bronner’s Castile Soap. Cut the brick into cubes (as best you can! they don’t have to be perfect!).
Parts of it will probably crumble, and that’s ok! So you don’t waste, you can use the crumbles for your first batch of wipes solution!
Step 9
You will want to use one cube per one cup of water, depending on how small you cut your cubes. Mine are about 1/2 inch x 1/2 inch x 1/4 inch (ish). If you find that it’s too much soap, add more water.
Add 1 cube to HOT water and allow to dissolve and cool. I would suggest that you use your prepared liquid solution within 24 hours. (If you use tea tree oil, it will keep a little longer.)
Step 10
Store in a sealed container in a cool, dry place. Use within 6 months. If they crumble, remember, that’s fine! Just toss them in your container and use the crumbles, also!
I know this really kinda goes without saying, but please discontinue use if this irritates your baby! All babies are different!
Any idea if this will still work using liquid castile soap? I have a monster jug at home but like this idea.
I have absolutely NO idea.. Makes me wonder if you can simmer it long enough to render the liquid out of it? Can’t hurt to try, really! Let me know how it goes!!
Haha, hmmm…lol Guess I could try it this weekend. My instinct says no, since it remains in a liquid state now because of whatever’s in it, but we’ll see what happens! Question is…how much to use? 😛 Thanks for getting back to me.
There is no telling!! You have me wondering now. I might go buy some and try it too!! Haha
If I use tea tree oil, how much should I use?
You can use as little or as much as you’d like. I would use at LEAST 3-6 drops!
How long does this last? I bought some recently and I use it in spray bottles. I’ve had them almost two weeks and haven’t used it all up yet. Should I throw them out?
As in after its dissolved in water or shelf life of the cubes?
Shelf life is Like 6-12 months.. just smell to make sure they do not have a rancid smell.
After dissolved in water, because of bacteria growth in water, Unless you add additional tea tree oil or lavender, I would throw it out after 24 hours.
love this recipe I plan on trying it out tomorrow! I would like to use lavender, tea tree and/or Calendula. I know I want lavender, but i dont know how much of tea tree and calendula.
I used some chamomile tea and it is extremely dark..will that effect the end product or should I add more water as this is still simmering?
It should be fine!
awesome! thank you!
Trying this out as we speak!
Question – about how long did it tak to render down?
Quite a while! I think it took me more than 15 -20 minutes last time.
I am wanting to make this wipes but I am was wondering is do you have to use that kind of coconut oil?? Does it just have to be natural coconut??
I’m curious if instead of the castile soap, if I can use goat milk soap? I’ve made quite a few bars and use it on my daughter who is 4. I would love to be able to use it to make bit!