[DoulaClara]

Here's how I strip them:

- regular style wash to get all the stuff out (hot/cold wash, small smidge of detergent, a little oxyclean). Re-rinse with warm.

- hot wash with a small amount of regular blue Dawn, rinse warm (I have to remember to switch the cycle before the rinse).

- remove from washer, boil in my giant pressure scanner pot (without the lid, I don't pressure cook them).

- toss back into washer, rinse one last time.

It is kind of excessive, but our water is hard and that works for us. I sometimes use vinegar in the regular rinse of the regular wash part, too. So far, this thoroughly strips the living daylights out of my cloth, and completely eats up my day.

I'm slightly unclear, though. Do you think you have any more cleaning rags in with the diapers? Or just that the cleaning rag in there contaminated the rest? There might be something else you'd have to do to get rid of some of the chemicals in the diapers, but I'm not sure what.