Well Rockin' Green eco-friendly cleaning products came to our rescue with Funk Rock their all natural ammonia bouncer for laundry. This powder is SLS, phosphate, soap, and enzyme free. The 16 oz. package I received contains enough powder to use in up to 30 loads of laundry. While Funk Rock is recommended as a great way to help with cloth diapers, you can also use this product for pet or potty training laundry. I want to mention is that it is made in the USA too.
Now back to how my ammonia problem began in the first place. Need to be honest with you and myself here. I was becoming lazy with washing, and had started going four or sometimes, I am ashamed to admit, more days before washing. Although in my defense the time I went six days ( yes, 6! That's not a typo) we were snowed in at my parent's home, so I came home to some stinky laundry. Another factor is our baby is growing up and not just on breast milk anymore at 11 months. He is now eating a wide variety of foods. Our son will also have watered down juice on occasion as a treat. The point... It was MY fault for not staying on top of the laundry, and that is why we had to deal with this eye watering, take your breath away, smelly ammonia problem.
I began using Funk Rock ammonia bouncer right away by doing a soak, as suggested on their package, for about one hour. We have a top loading washer, so I just added my diapers and the recommended 4 tablespoons of Funk Rock as the basin was filling. Rockin' Green recommends no more than 20 diapers at one time when using Funk Rock, which is almost how many we go through in 3 days. Next I simply paused the rinse cycle after it was done filling and walked away with a timer set for myself to go back to restart it.
After my timer let me know the cloth diapers had finished their one hour Funk Rock soak, I simply continued with my normal wash routine. First finished that pre-rinse cycle, then did a hot wash on a heavy duty cycle with enough Rockin' Green Laundry Detergent for a large load (3 tablespoons), and finally the last extra rinse. I could tell a difference as soon as I pulled the inserts from our dryer. They didn't have a not quite clean smell, and when our son let it flow in that first clean diaper, my eyes weren't burning. Funk Rock as a pre-treater works on our cloth diapers. The ammonia odor is gone, and this Mommy right here is thrilled.
Now to maintain funk free fluff, first of all, not going to allow myself to go more than three days between washes. The second thing is on wash day I have added an extra very simple step to our wash routine, we put one tablespoon of Funk Rock in that first pre-rinse cycle. Then I continue with my original wash routine. We have not had another issue with any eye watering ammonia stink since, and my adorable cloth diapers and I are friends again. So happy because I truly love the fluff! Rockin Green's Funk Rock all natural ammonia bouncer does the job, and I definitely recommend giving it a try if your cloth diapers have an ammonia odor.
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Have you had issues with ammonia in your cloth diapers? Let me know how Funk Rock worked for you, or if you have another go to method in a comment below.
