What do you wash your babys bottles in?

Question

after finding out i dont need to sterilize them after every use ive been using palmolive free and clear with warm to hot water for my 4 week olds bottles. is this okay? it says free of harmful chemicals and stuff....so i figure thats a good one to use.

what do you use?

Answer 1

I use regular Palmolive and rinse them in very hot water.

Answer 2

I just used the regular palmolive.

Answer 3

I use my dishwasher.  I have 3 levels in my dishwasher, I put the nipples and rings on the very top, and the bottles on the 2nd rack.  And I also have a sanitize button on my dishwasher that I push when I have bottles in the dishwasher.

Answer 4

hot hot hot water and whatever dish soap I have (currently its the apple scented sunlight)  I soak them until the water is cool enough to put my hand in and then wash them out and place to dry (I only soak them because I'm lazy and by the time they are all in the sink I'm usually off to do something else-its not to "sterilize them)

good luck to you!!

Answer 5

I uses Dawn, but at Babies R Us they actually have bottle detergent, never tried its a bit pricey

Answer 6

What ever is on sale.  I just make sure I rinse really well.

Answer 7

Honestly I use whatever is on sale.  Never bugged my little guy.  I just make sure that I rinse very well.  :)

Answer 8

i wash his bottles in hot water and soap.

we use dawn

Answer 9

Dawn, I figured if its safe for wild animals then it's safe for my baby...

Answer 10

Just use a decent soap and water mix in hot water, then rinse very very well.  It has be shown that antibacterial soaps do not clean the average household item, or your hands, any better than normal soap and hot water.  Your home is not a laboratory, nor is your baby's tummy.

We as humans have survived millenia, and even prospered quite well for hundreds of years without special anti-bacterial detergents sold just for babies.

Wash your babies things, rinse them thoroughly, and use them repeatedly.  The most GREEN and ENVIRONMENTAL way it the old fashioned way.  Avoid over-consumerism.

Answer 11

Well my doctor told me to put them in the dishwasher on the top rack with the cups & stuff if you have a dishwasher.  If you wash them by hand it shouldn't matter what kind of soap you use as long as your water is hot enough to sterilize them & you  make sure you get all the soap out.

Answer 12

I use palmolive, it was what they used in the NICU so I figure it's prob best. I still steralize my bottles each use, I have an electric steam steralizer bought at babies r us for like $30 bux, it is soo easy.

Answer 13

I use Palmolive too. Where did you hear you dont have to sterilize bottles? They recommend you sterilize your bottles, nipples, caps and rings each time you use it until your child reaches 1 year of age. I've been sterilizing mine and my daughter is 4 months old? Do you sterilize your water?