One of the easiest things to make that will save you a little bit of money here and there. Homemade baby wipes! I just started making these since having baby #3. Mainly I started making them because I couldn't keep them in the house. With 3 kiddos needing diaper changes and bums wiped, we went through a lot of wipes, and I mean a LOT of wipes. I also feel better knowing their little bums are taken care of with homemade wipes because there is not a lot of chemicals in them! A great benefit to making things for yourself-you know what is in it. I also want to say that baby #3 has yet to have a diaper rash-since this is the only thing different with this baby, I'm blaming that totally on the wipes!
What you need:
1 Roll Paper Towels(you must you bounty-cheap brands just don't work for these they will shred)
2 c warm water
1 Tbsp Coconut oil(melted)
2 Tbsp Baby soap(my favorite is Dr Bronner's baby mild castile soap)
Container to put it in. I have use old wipes containers, although it will take a bit longer to do it that way. I have also used a Tupperware and that goes significantly faster, but use whatever suits your lifestyle better or whatever you happen to have on hand.
Cut your paper towel roll in half, and take the cardboard middle out. If you are using a Tupperware just pull part of the middle paper towel up a bit and place in the paper towel in the container. The container does need to be pretty air tight. If you are using a wipes container see below! Mix all the wet ingredients together. Now pour over top of the paper towels. Close up your container and you are done. You should be able to use half of this mixture over one half of the paper towels and the other half of the mixture on the other half of paper towels that way you use the whole roll and all of the mix. If you only have room to do a half roll start with that and only use half the amount of wet supplies!
*Note for using old wipes containers: I am a bit OCD so when doing it this way I wanted to make sure I could pull them out the little hole and the next one would follow, just like the store bought kind. If you have a couple extra minutes go ahead and do it this way. I have 3 extra wipes containers that I keep around the house, when I make them I make all 3 containers that way I don't have to make them as often. So to get them to come out of the container correctly you will need to tear all of the paper towels apart. Now you stack/layer them. Put one on the bottom, and then about 2" from the right end place the next paper towel on top. That way they overlap by about 2", now put the next paper towel on top of that one but overlapping on the opposite side. Then fold it over so they are the same length. Keep going in this pattern until they are all folded up. You fold them right after the 2" together, this way when you pull up on one paper towel the next one will follow in line. It sounds a bit confusing but it does work and isn't as hard as it seems. Again the container is a faster less confusing way, but I'm a bit OCD and like things in correct containers!
*Update: Since I made this mistake last time I made them-we had bought those select a size paper towels-DON'T cut those ones in half. Just tear off each piece and make that one wipe! Otherwise you will end up with these little tiny squares. If you are wiping a newborn hinny than that might work-but on bigger bums not so much!
Good luck! Have fun saving yourself some money. This really is a fast project, it smells good, and feels good on baby's bottom ,as coconut oil has healing properties for diaper rash and is very soothing.
