Before buying these, I used toilet paper (4 sheets of 2 ply, folded in half to make 2 squares of 4ply) or a tissue (folded in half, along crease) as a liner. Although it worked better than no liner at all, they were always soaked in pee, so I had to grasp a wet piece of tissue to pull them of the diaper, or shake the diaper hard and hope they fell into the toilet and not on the rim or floor. This also didn’t contain all of the mess, like the Kushies liners do, and left fluff on my son’s bottom.
These liners fit Kushies
Ultra AIO or
Classic diapers or size 6 disposables perfectly, back to front and side to side and keep most of the solid waste off of the diaper. I got them when my son was almost 2, so I do not have experience with using these for runny breast-feeding poos.
They easily separate from the diaper - I grab a back corner where it is still dry and lift it off the diaper and into the toilet. I use these with both disposables and cloth diapers (since you are supposed to dispose of ALL fecal matter in the toilet, NOT in the garbage, even if you use disposables). It make it so easy and I never have to touch poo/dunk/rinse when I use these. Because it is biodegradable, if you have a compost, you could add the wet liners to the compost.
Do not compost soiled liners, since they contain human waste.
I use them EVERY TIME I change a diaper, because it seems like whenever I think, “he just pooed, so he probably won’t poo in this diaper so I can save a liner,” he poos and I have to scrape and dunk and rinse *shudder*. At 100 liners for $7 CAD (or 2 rolls of 100 each for $12), or 6-7 cents each, it’s worth it just in case he does poo. In order to save on water, I leave the wet liners in the toilet until the next person comes to use it and they flush it down when they are finished.
It does allow liquid from the poo through the liner, which can stain the diaper. I don’t see anyway around this, since it has to be able to let pee through.
They are difficult to separate one from the rest, tearing easily where they aren’t supposed to tear since they are poorly perforated. If the perforations were wider or closer together, it would make it easier to find where one liner ends and another begins, and then easier to separate the two.
These do have a bit of a papery feel to them (a little bit rough, like the inside of a disposable diaper), but have not proven to be rough on my son’s skin.
I have never had one clog my toilet, but they are not recommended for very old plumbing or septic systems. If you are concerned about this, you could always hold one end of it as it flushes, and then let go so that it goes down straight and not all wadded up, or let it sit in the toilet for a few minutes to start breaking up, or you could dunk the waste off and put it in the garbage, but that kinda defeats the purpose of using a flushable liner.
I’ve heard a few people say that you can wash and reuse the wet liners, but since they are made out of paper, I couldn’t imagine how that would work because paper disintegrates in water.
Update: I don't know how, but it does work. If they have only been peed on, they can be washed and reused up to 3-4 times (in my experience) before tearing.
Since they hold up in water, these would be useable with
swim diapers if you chose.
Overall, I give them a 4/5, -1 point because they are difficult to separate from each other.
