Washing newborn clothes

Hey, what are you washing newborn clothes with? I’m not sure if it’s ok to use my current laundry detergent if it’s not very gentle.

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With the fairy pods that come in the emma’s diary packs xx

I use detergent for sensitive skin / no smell, otherwise just hot water is also good

Non-bio

oh I just picked up one of these bags yesterday! I haven’t opened it yet. Will have a loook x

where did you get one?

if you sign up to Emma diary you get some vouchers and go to Boots and they bring one out for you ☺️ I just showered voucher on my phone and they scanned it! Xx

Fairy all the way though! Pods are the best, suitable for newborn and sensitive skin. I’ve washed all clothes, bedding etc in fairy xx

We use ecover it is the only laundry liquid my toddler with eczema does not react to - non bio ☺️ we used it since she was a newborn

Anything non bio. Fairy non bio seems to smell the best

I would recommend fairy but I have been using anything non bio that I have

It's a myth that you need to use non bio, the NHS website advises just to carry on using your own normal detergent (ive just avoided anything super scented) unless baby has a reaction to anything. I honestly hate the smell of most non bio stuff so was relieved to use my own nice smelling stuff xx

I use Bold washing powder with Comfort fabric softener

oh interesting!! I’ll have a look into this. We have used non bio before for our own stuff but I feel like it doesn’t clean very well but would use it again if it was deemed best. I’ll have a look at the nhs website!

Any kind of detergent is fine. The old advice to use non-bio is nonsense, even NHS have changed their advice on that. If anything is going to irritate LO's skin then it's almost certainly going to be fragrances not enzymes (which are the difference between bio and non-bio), but even then it's unlikely.

We use Tesco Tropical because it's cheap and works well, and we generally shop at Tesco anyway so it's convenient. Hasn't ever caused any issues for either of our kids or for husband's eczema, so will continue to use it for new baby too

Planning to use the fairy non bio pods as that's what we use anyway since my partner has sensitive skin x

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