Home made baby wipes are practical, cheap, and chemical free. This solution can be used with either cloth wipes (old fleece cut into squares or cheap flannels) or large (preferably organic) cotton wool pads as a disposable option. Cloth wipes can be dunked, squeezed and stored in a tupperware box, or you can pop the solution in a spray bottle to spray onto either wipe or babybum at the appropriate moment, and are chucked in with the clothnappy load. The cottonwool goes into nappysack with your 'sposie.
If you use tea-tree oil, the wipes are antiseptic and can be used to wipe down highchairs, tables etc.
Traditional Version
1 chamomile tea bag
2 mugs of boiling water
1 teaspoon olive oil
2 drops of lavender oil and 2 teatree oil
Stir
Busy Mama version
Pour a small amount of boiling water into container
Add chamomile tea-bag and stir vigourously with a spoon until small amount of strong chamomile tea is made
Remove teabag and top up with cold water (this means you can make up your wipes immediately and not waste time waiting for it to cool)
Sprinkle with essential oil of choice (I prefer teatree)
Other variations
Chamomile and Honey teabags
Glycerin instead of olive oil
Adding 1 blob of natural baby wash to traditional version
Plain water with small amount of babywash
Newborn version - plain, warm water
Nappy rash version - strong chamomile tea and liberal sprinkling of lavender oil (antiseptic, but gentler than teatree and doesnt sting)
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