Any ideas on how to get the smell out of the diaper pail?
I put those glass square air freshners in my trash barrels and my diaper pail. I think they are made by glade. I just peel the back off and leave it freshner side up and put my trash bag in the pail. They last for a long time and they smell decent.
Everytime I change the bag in our diaper pail I spray it down & wipe with Clorox Clean Up... It's the bleach that will do the trick. It will literally wipe out any trace of odor!
I just got rid of the diaper pail when my daughter turned 1. I tried baking soda, lysol, no luck! But by this time she hasn't been going through many diapers in a day, especially at home since she is in daycare. So I keep a regular trash can with grocery bags in there and empty it out whenever she poops. I tie the bag around the diapers and put it in the kitchen trash. Unless it's a particularly foul diaper, the odor is contained until we take the trash out every few days.
With adult food, came adult smelling poo in our house. I started bagging the diaper in a grocery bag, and tossing out in the trash, as I could smell the pail anywhere in the house otherwise. I took them out promptly, and within a couple of days, no more diaper stink in the house.
Good luck,
D.
Throw it away! Place a supply of plastic groceries bags near changing area, bag it, tie it, toss it! No smell. I have four kids and never used a diaper pail!
J., throw it away and buy a new one!!! Been there done that!! L. C.
I usually soak the pail with 50% bleach and water. After I rinse it out, I try to let it air dry in the sun. It helps keep it odor free for atleast a few days. Good luck.
I had the same problem and first, I put one of those refridgerator baking soda boxes in the bottom of the pail. It worked a little, but now we just ditched the pail all together and wrap our daughter's diapers in ziploc and throw it in our regular trash. She is two, so it makes it easier not to have a pail in her room at all now. Once we found toys in the bottom, we knew it had to go.
Good luck!
soak it with vinigar and water.
We stopped using a diaper pail when my son's bms developed a stronger odor - after we went to solids and particularly when he went exclusively to formula, at around 8 months. We use an extra-large wetbag with a loop that fits on a hook on our changing table. If you get a good wetbag with a zipper seal, that holds in a lot of odors. But you can also get the bag with a bit of felt sewn in, and can sprinkle on some essential oil, which kills the smell (Lavender works great). Then turn the bag inside out and wash with the diapers. My first wetbags were terrific, from a WAHM who is now sadly not in the business any more...I just got some fresh ones (my son is 2.5) from Happy Tushies, which look well made, but haven't even gone through one wash cycle yet.
It's not clear from your post if you're using disposables or cloth...you've got some great suggestions for cloth, but I have to disagree with your previous responses re: disposables. The best solution is to make sure that all solid waste gets dumped into the toliet, not the trash (even with disposables!) Landfills are not designed to deal well with human waste & this can cause real health hazards--put it in the sewage system/septic tank. This will help mitigate the smell without the need of a whole additional layer of plastic that will need to decompose.
don't bother with all the fancy (and poisonous) chemicals: use SUNSHINE! open the diaper pail up and let it sit outside in the sun for a few hours, or all day. then, when you bring it inside, put a cup or two of baking soda in the bottom. make sure to change the baking soda every few weeks - or whenever you notice it getting "moist" and clumpy.
we use cloth diapers in a dry pail, and i know all about stink in the pail. trust me when i say the best remedy is sunshine and fresh air.
