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Feeding a baby generates a surprising amount of washing up, and most of it has to be done properly rather than quickly. Baby cleaning products exist because ordinary dish soap and a normal brush do not reach into a teat or a valve.
Getting Into the Awkward Parts
A bottle brush earns its place on shape alone. The long handle reaches the base of a tall bottle without your knuckles going in after it, and the narrow teat brush on the end clears the ring and the vent where milk residue actually sits.
Anything with a valve or a straw needs its own thin brush, which is the piece most people discover they are missing after a week. Sponge-tipped brushes suit soft silicone and glass, since stiff bristles can scratch a bottle that then holds odour.
Drying Without Recontaminating
Washing is only half of it. A tea towel puts fibres and whatever was on the towel straight back onto a clean teat, so a dedicated rack that lets everything air-dry upside down does a better job with less effort.
Look at the footprint before you buy, because a rack lives on your bench permanently. Some fold down or shrink for a small kitchen, and travel versions pack into a nappy bag for a weekend away. Pegs sized for teats and rings stop the small parts disappearing behind the sink.
Detergents, Wipes and What Is Safe to Use
Baby safe cleaning products are formulated to rinse away completely and to leave no fragrance behind, which is the whole point when the item goes into a mouth. A liquid cleanser made for bottles handles milk fat better than kitchen detergent and takes fewer rinses.
Antibacterial tablets and solutions cover the sterilising side for bottles, dummies and small toys, and are useful when you are away from a steriliser. Surface wipes are the everyday one, used on high chair trays, change tables and the pram tray far more often than anyone expects.
How long you keep sterilising is worth knowing. Most Australian guidance has bottles and teats sterilised until around twelve months, and thorough washing in hot soapy water with a dedicated brush does much of the work before that step. Your child health nurse is the person to ask about your own situation.
Brushes wear out and should be replaced every few months once the bristles splay, and anything used on bottles is worth keeping separate from the general kitchen washing up so it stays clean between uses.
A second brush kept in the nappy bag is a small thing that saves a lot of improvising at a friend's house or in a holiday kitchen.
Cleaning Brands We Stock
OXO Tot is the name behind most of our drying racks and brush sets, with the considered handles and grips the brand built its reputation on.Pigeon covers brushes and liquid cleansers, and is the one to look at if you want the whole routine from a single brand.
On the sterilising side,Milton makes the antibacterial tablets and surface wipes that have been in Australian kitchens for decades,Medela handles quick-clean microwave bags for pump parts, andBaby Brezza takes it further with a machine that washes bottles for you. These are just some of the brands we carry.
Setting Up the Rest of the Bottle Routine
Cleaning gear is bought alongside the feeding equipment it looks after, and it is easier to sort both at once. Browse our fullfeeding range, or pick up what goes with it:
We post Australia-wide, and our team can talk you through what suits your bottles atAlexandria orMiranda.