Lanolizing Your Wool **Tutorial**

It's important to take good care of your wool diaper covers if you want them to last as heirlooms. But it's almost as important to make sure you lanolize them every once in a while unless you want some leakage!

To tell if your wool diaper cover needs lanolizing simply add it to a bowl or sinkful of LUKEWARM water and gently squeeze it to see if it soaks up the water. As you can see from the pictures below this cover is really soaking up the water as it's never before been lanolized.

Lanolizing is really very simple, so follow along and let's git'er done!

Step 1: Assemble your supplies. You will need lanolin, baby wash and a small container for mixing.

Fill a sink with LUKEWARM water and add a couple drops of baby wash 










Step 2: Fill the sink with LUKEWARM water and add a couple drops of baby wash.

Step 3: Add cover

Step 4: Swish your cover gently around. Let sit for 5 min. Swish around again.

Turn inside out and rinse with LUKEWARM water.
Squeeze out excess water (do not wring) and set aside.

 Step 5: Add a pea sized drop of lanolin and baby wash to your container. Then fill halfway with HOT water. Shake it up really well, you don't want any lanolin globs!

 Step 6: I said SHAKE IT!! :P

And also while you're shaking you should fill the sink with LUKEWARM water again.

 Step 7: Add lanolin mixture a little bit at a time trying not to dump it all in the same spot. Swish your wool around a bit and flip it over to the back.

Let sit for 5-10 min.






To Finish: Squeeze out your wool by folding it. Do not wring your wool. To get even more water out you can roll it in a towel. When you're done having your fun simply lay it flat on a drying rack or something similar.

You did it! See I told you it was easy :P

The Down-Low On Wool Diapers

Why should you use wool? 

I love the “naturalness” of a wool soaker. No PUL stopping the fresh air from reaching your baby's precious little bottom. I love the idea of a little baby girl playing in the backyard in the country on a warm summers day, her little pink skirtie blowing in the fresh breeze and her white bonnet keeping her face angelically white, while Mom hangs up the sheets to dry on their clothesline. Perfect.

So not only are wool diaper covers super duper cute, but wool has so many awesome characteristics which make it an excellent choice for a diaper cover.

1. Absorbent – so they wick all the moisture away from that soft little tush
2. Water Repellent – all that moisture won't leak through!
3. Antibacterial – how fantastic is that?
4. Durable – your favortie wool soaker could become a family heirloom!
5. Comfortable – natural elasticity mmm :)

Just knowing all the benefits of using a wool diaper cover, who wouldn't want to pamper their precious baby's bum in such an adorable way?

How to use it:

You can use wool diaper covers on top of prefold and fitted diapers instead of your PUL or fleece diaper cover.

You can use it over your pockets/AIOs or disposables at night time to prevent leaking.

Or you can just use them as cute homemade skirties or shorties.

The newest wool diaper cover in my line right now is the lacey skirtie which is version 1 of Amy O'Holleran's Little Fire Diaper Covers (check out her blog here :)). I love the look of this skirtie, it's so flowy and girlie and perfect! The best part is you don't have to wear anything on top! Just put a diaper (prefold, fitted etc) on your little one and then put your skirtie on and you're good to go. Or you can just wear it as a skirt over a disposable or pocket type diaper.

I am a licensed retailer of the Little Fire series, see my other wool diaper covers here. 




Why do you love your wool diaper cover? And what are your favorite colors?