Customer Reviews

Flushable-Biodegradable Diaper Liners - 3 Rolls-Pack

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These liners are working out great for us. Unfortunately there seems to some confusion about what to expect from them and how to use them, resulting in unnecessary frustration and dissatisfaction. I thought it might be helpful to some if I explained in some detail how to use them to best effect.

It's usually easier to understand a solution if you first understand the problem it solves, so let's start with the problem. If you're using cloth diapers rather than disposables, and washing your own rather than using a diaper service, and you're baby has started eating solid food and so has more solid stool than when only on milk or formula, it can get messy in the washing machine. Washing diapers at least every three days helps, but it still might be necessary to run diapers through twice, and still have unpleasantries to scoop out of the washing machine.

So what's the solution? The traditional solution is scraping and rinsing off the diapers in the toilet. (Then, I hope, washing and disinfecting your hands.) Ick! These liners are a better solution.

So how do these liners help? By capturing most (not all!!) of the stool. After changing the dirty diaper, you stand over the toilet bowl and peel off the liner, along with whatever stool it captured. Then, flush. The liner is essentially a very strong toilet paper, so it's just as flushable as your own. If the liner is all soaked (I've never seen it completely dirtied), I grab a handful of normal toilet paper to make the job a little more palatable.

Then, put the dirty diaper in it's pail, and the cover (if you're using cloth diapers, you're using covers too, right?) in the dirty laundry pile. You'll still want to wash the diapers at least every three days, but you'll have much less mess.

So, what are these liners NOT intended for, and not useful for? Absorption! If you are using these because you need more absorption, you're using the wrong tool for the job. Sure, they obviously absorb a little moisture, but not enough to make much difference. If you need more absorption, what you need is one or more of the following: a bigger diaper, a more absorbent diaper, an absorbent cloth diaper *insert*. Also, if you're not using diaper covers, you need them.

If you find that every diaper change requires a change of baby's clothes, and of bedsheets at night, then you are doing something dreadfully wrong, and trying to solve your problem by using these liners will be about as effective as throwing a cup of coffee on a forest fire. If it's going that badly for you, you need to ask for help from a more experienced parent (but one who has a baby in diapers now or recently, not one who last did in the 1950's). Ask them to watch while you change baby's diaper, and tell you what you're doing wrong. Blowouts should be the exception, not the rule.

What about the softness/scratchiness issue? Folks, these are fine. They're not as soft as the diapers, but they're not going to be uncomfortable. Any scratchiness problem is far more in the mind of certain parents than in the baby's actual experience.

What about using two of them side by side to prevent any trace of stool from soiling the precious diaper? I think that's overkill. Folks, this is a diaper LINER, not a diaper REPLACEMENT. Expect the diaper -- and the diaper cover, too -- to get some of the stool on it.

Regarding rice paper liners, I can't comment because we haven't tried them, nor felt any need to. Maybe they're even better than these.

Finally, if you're using cloth diapers, you should be using modern, washable, waterproof diaper covers, which are essential protection against blowouts, and eliminate the need for pins.

Is there a downside to using these liners? Only in that it makes the diaper change a somewhat smellier job, partly because you can't put the dirty diaper in the (lidded, of course) diaper pail immediately, and partly because the trip to the bathroom to peel off the liner into the toilet bowl can be a smelly one. But much better than scraping & rinsing.

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I spoke too soon about using two of them side by side to increase the total width. With just one, sometimes it ends up all bunched up along the center, leaving most of the stool on the diaper. We haven't tried doubling them, but now it sounds like a good idea if you don't mind doubling the cost.

Instead, we tried wider rice paper liners (not from Amazon.com). We've gotten through two rolls of them. They are wide enough that it is rarely bunched up along the center. They're cheaper, too. However, they disintegrate much more easily than these non-rice liners, and sometimes end up sort of shredded, which is a mess to try to separate from the diaper to flush.

The rice-paper liners also have an annoying habit of occasionally sticking to baby, then leaving most of the stool on baby when you peel it off. Wiping all that stool off on washcloths, which then go in the washing machine, defeats the purpose of the liners. I could try having a roll of toilet paper handy, but what I've done so far is use wipes, which have to go in the garbage.

If cost is no object, maybe the best solution is two of these non-rice liners. Otherwise, the wider rice liners do keep more stool off the diaper than a single one of these non-rice liners.

I have twins and I've used cloth diapers since they came home. I use high quality diapers and covers and have never had a problem with leaking and my babies weighed four and half pounds when they came home. These make clean up of feces easier and less messy. Most of the mess is on the liner and that goes in the toilet, which is more sanitary and less time consuming. I don't have to spend hours soaking diapers. I've also never had a problem with diaper rash, and they are now 4 months old. I contribute that to these liners. When they were tiny I'd cut one sheet in half, so one roll has gone a long way. If you want to use cloth do some research and measure your baby. There are literally dozens of covers and diapers to choose from, and you can find the system that fits your baby without leaks or pins, and with the use of these disposable liners more sanitary and less messy and easier on your pocket book and the environment.

We have used Kushies cloth diapers for a month now and can't praise them enough. We use the cloth diaper, an extra Kushies reusable liner for extra absorbancy and a flushable liner for easy disposal of solid wastes. The diapers are soft and durable, and easy to put on or reposition thanks to Velcro tabs. The flushable liners make clean up incredibly easy and a much neater affair than rinsing out regular cloth diapers; they are also apparently incredibly durable as we've accidentally laundered a couple of those that had just been wet and they survived being pre-soaked, washed and dried without so much as fraying around the edges. We may end up reusing them too! We've not had a single instance of diaper rash. Also, the fact that the diaper doesn't immediately wick away wetness like the disposables means that our little one tells us when his diaper is wet and this will make toilet training much easier. Finally, apart from the environmental benefits, the cost savings are great.

One caveat - the smallest size is probably a bit large for the average newborn, in spite of the package recommendations. Ours fit and worked best after junior hit 10 lbs.

I have been cloth diapering with Kooshies Ultra All in ones since the day brought him home from the hospital. We have had no problems! The all in ones are just as convienient as disposables, except you wash them. And these liners makes the messy diapers childs play..... yes they are flushable but i don't change him in the bathroon, instead i toss them in a small tupperware container with a small plastic diaper bag inside, and place the lid on tight. just change the bag once a day, oy sure you can flush them. ALSO... if they just have urine on them i toss them in the wash with the diapers. they will survive at least 1 wash and usually 2-3 before tearing apart. While Adem was still small 0-3 months i cut the liners in half, thus milking 100 wipes into 200 and still gettingat least 2 uses out of 75% of them. Adem is now 8.5 months and we still love our cloth diapers, in fact he has never had a diaper rash except the one time we were driving cross country and i used disposables for 2 days. It cleared up in just a few days as soon as the natural cotton diapers wer put back on. Another huge plus to cloth? Potty training happens so much sooner Adem is already starting to use the potty. in the past 2 weeks just 2 poohs in his diaper. the rest we were home, he cried i put him on his potty, and he went. of course he still pees in his diaper, but every once in a while he wants to pee in his potty. Cloth does no prhibit you child from associating the feeling of urinating with the feeling of being wet, disposables do! Don't hesitate,trust Kooshies! they are affordable, easy, cute as pie (nothing is cuter than a baby in a cloth diaper) and best of all, NATURAL! my only suggestion is if you HATE leaks, use All In Ones (known as AIO) they have the cover built in, velcro tabs and fit just like a disposable. DADDY FRIENDLY!!!!!! good luck, and if you have questions, i am happy to chat about it. Email me! please pardon all my typos, sleeping baby in lap. dance5678@hotmail.com

These were okay, but there are definitely better out there! Try the liners from Diaper Safari, this is the only place i can find them. They're made from rice paper-so they're softer, plus they are about an inch wider! If they only get wet, or a small amount of fecal matter they can be washed with the diapers and reused! One roll lasted me a week and a half longer than the kooshies, they also come 100 sheets per roll. We have enjoyed cloth diapers and have no complaints!

I bought these upon recommendation. I read the description on Amazon and saw that they were "biodegradable" and "flushable." However, upon receipt it says on the pkg in fine print "NOT RECOMMENDED FOR SEPTIC TANKS." SO DO NOT BUY IF YOU HAVE A SEPTIC TANK!! I wouldn't have bought them if I'd known and now I'm stuck with $20 worth of these...which I could return but then I'd get stuck with shipping again....which isn't going to be worth it. I guess I'll give them away. BLAH...........

I was very disappointed in these liners. They were too narrow and messes invariably covered the leg openings of my diapers. I also like that the rice paper liners can be washed and reused in case the diaper was just wet, these felt much more wasteful. I couldn't wait to use up the 3 roll supply I had so I could go back to the rice paper liners.

What a wonderful product this is! I couldn't find any diaper liners in stores so my search on the internet resulted in these Kushies. The glowing reviews are true! I don't know why someone said they feel like dryer sheets because they are more like a paper towel. They are a little on the long side so I fold them into a V shape to place in his diaper. My son has never had diaper rash except with disposable diapers and is sleeping through the night no problem despite how wet the cloth diaper gets. They make cleanup easier and I'd recommend them to anyone concerned with preventing diaper rash or helping the environment!

These flushable liners are WAY too narrow! I have to put two overlapped side by side to cover the width of the diaper, a pretty big hassle when changing a wiggling toddler. They also do not flush very easily. I would not recommend this product to anyone.

I have used Kushies Ultra AIO for a while now and loved them until I ran out of Kushies Diaper Liners and decided to save the shipping fee by going to BRU and getting the only liners they had on the shelf - not Kushies. Now I am using these worthless things only to save the staining of the diapers. Why are they worthless? They are NOT flushable. So I have to rinse them out, and either try and wring out the liners in the toilet or drag them dripping across the bathroom to the trashcan. DISGUSTING. This is such a pain, I am starting to hate the diapers. Needless to say, I ordered a three pack of the liners tonight. Clean and easy, pull the liner out, flush it and you're done. Saves the diaper and my sanity.