Want to save money on baby wipes? Here are two easy, affordable ways to make your own baby wipes using materials you probably already have lying around your home. All you need is a roll of paper towels, a medium-sized container with a lid, a good knife and a mixture of wipes solution.
Paper Towel Method 1: The Stack
- Buy a roll of soft, sturdy and absorbent paper towels.
- Cut the paper towels into halves lengthwise.
- If you like a smaller wipe, halve your halves to make quarters (got that?).
- Remove the cardboard tube from the center.
- Stack the paper towels flat inside a sealed container.
- Dampen the stack of paper towels with your wipes solution.
- Grab moist wipes from top of the stack as need.
The Stack method is a good choice for your first batch of DIY baby wipes, because you really can’t screw it up. If you can cut a paper towel roll in half, you’re pretty much done. You don’t even have to stack the diaper wipes up neatly. Just throw them in there and grab as much as you need.
Paper Towel Method 2: The Roll
- Buy a roll of soft, sturdy and absorbent paper towels.
- Cut the paper towels in half to make 2 half-size rolls.
- Put one of your half-rolls aside. Place the other in a container.
- Dampen the paper towels with your wipes solution and let it soak a bit.
- Carefully pull the cardboard tube from the center of the roll.
- Cut an X shape into the lid of the container.
- Feed the paper towels from the center of the roll through the X in the lid.
- Place the lid on the container with the paper towels poking through the top.
- Tear off sheets at the perforations.
As you can see, the Roll method is a bit trickier. You have to work the cardboard tube out of the center of the roll without unraveling all the paper towels inside. You also have to find the right kind of lid for your container, because some lids don’t cut well. But the payoff is pretty sweet — you just made your own DIY pop-up wipes!
Some people say they use toilet paper instead of paper towels with the Roll method. Personally, I don’t see how a wad of soppy toilet paper makes a good diaper wipe, but maybe with the right toilet paper it could work. I’ve also considered trying soft napkins, since they don’t require cutting and can stack easily.
Image: Bounty paper towels by Barkdog.
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