I'm going to post this a bit odd to help save some people time. First the question and then the description on my routine. I need to know the best way to care for rubber pants for cloth diapers.
I was restocking some of my cloth supplies and while ordering, thought I would give rubber a try. I ordered one pair and it came in yesterday but before I use it I was wanting to know the best was to care for it. For the past several years my routine with my plastic ones has been to take them off, turn them inside out and set them on top of the diaper pail till time to wash. Then I put the diapers in the washer to do one cycle to rinse out the water and stuff they soak in and then rinse out the pail and fill it back uo with the water and vinegar mix I keep them in. While the washer is doing the first run, I soak the plastic pants in the pail/tub I use. They soak for maybe an hour and then I add the soap to the washer, add the plastic and then do the second round of washing. The washer is set up to add two extra rinse and spin cycles at the end. Then I take the plastic out, put the diapers in the dryer for a half a cycle and take all the pants and let them hang to dry. My concerns are the vinegar, soap from washing and the agitation in the washing machine. What do you guys do for your rubber? Another question is it even worth the hassle?
Thanks
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