Too fussy?

Ok I think I need to review the way I do my washing as I now have so many different types of nappies. I generally wash to the manufacturer's instructions but it's resulting in small loads and heaps of them.
Here's what I do currently:

Bum genius and Fuzzies and fleece covers - in a warm/hot wash by themselves as the fuzzis can't be washed with natural fibres.

Prefolds, pul covers - wash with my normal washing load - usually cold.

Bamboozle, bitti boo, hemp inserts - warm/hot wash but by themselves as they can't be washed with fuzzis (see above)

Am I going overboard? What do you guys do?

Uh...... I obviously dont read instructions. I uesd to throw everything nappies, clothes etc together but then I decided I liked fabric softener on his clothes (yes naughty) so I wash all the nappies and prefolds together on a warm wash. I used to do hot but thought that was extravagent. All other loads I do cold but I give the nappies a wee treat with warm

It never occured to me to do them differently

Mine all go in the wash with the clothes.

I wash all my nappies together on either cold or warm - depending on what mood I'm in . I use detol once or twice a week too (brilliant stuff it is!) I wouldn't bother doing separate loads, you are just making lots of work for yourself. They will all be fine washed together!!

kebakat wrote: I don't care what clothing labels say. Everything goes in together on a cold wash. All the nappies, inserts, all our clothes, whites or brights. All ends up fine

ditto

Quick question - if you're meant to use half the amount of a normal powder what do you do if you're doing a full load of clothes with just a few naps thrown in?

Faraway wrote: Quick question - if you're meant to use half the amount of a normal powder what do you do if you're doing a full load of clothes with just a few naps thrown in?

I use half amounts on her clothes too so it makes no difference

It makes the fleece rougher as the lint from the natural fibres pills on the fuzzis. But apparently it doesn't affect the performance anyway.

Thanks guys - yeah I thought I might be overdoing it. Yay I think we'll be doing one wash from now on. (thank god!)

everything (except towels) get washed together here too.

Those that use dettol, do you use regular dettol or that special in wash stuff? And to confirm, why do you use it and would it be ok for a baby with eczema?