30 Genius Uses For A Baby Wipe (Wiping A Baby Not Included)

Whether you’ve got a baby in the nursery, you don’t have any children or your brood is all grown up, baby wipes should be in your life.

As well as being able to clean up pretty much everything, they’ll save you from more than one sticky situation, as they’re brilliant at removing hard-to-shift stains.

To summarise, they’re pretty much the best thing since sliced bread. And they only cost a few quid.

1. Use them to remove make-up. Perfect when you’re slightly sloshed and can’t get your head around your usual complex skincare regime. 

2.  Get rid of hair dye stains. Forget slathering Vaseline on your forehead and ears before refreshing your colour – this will do the job just as well.

3.  Use as a flyaway hair tamer. Perfect for stowing in your handbag when you’re on a date and need to tame any frizz. 

4.  Remove carpet stains. Use a wipe to blot up coffee spillage on your carpet – it absorbs both the liquid and the stain. Genius.

5.  Dust the leaves of indoor plants. As an added bonus, they’ll leave them looking super shiny.

6.  Run out of loo roll? A baby wipe is your substitute. In fact, 56 per cent of women have admitted to using them for this purpose. But best not to flush them away – blockages and all that.

7. Use as a floor wipe. Simple and effective.

8.  Clean leather furniture. Because they contain moisture, they don’t dry out the leather.

9.  Spruce up white goods. Struggling to clean that pesky ring of dirt around the washing machine’s buttons? Enter, baby wipes.  

10.  Clean your child’s plastic toys. Yep, they get coated in dirt/food/dribble, too.

11.  Clean fingerprints on photo frames – and on your phone, tablet and laptop, too.  Let the wipe dry out a little before using to avoid streaks.

12.  Freshen up when you’re on the go or have no access to showers. Perfect for when you’re at a festival or on a really long car journey.  

13. Wipe anything and everything. If you’re a germaphobe, baby wipes are great for giving trolley handles, the highchair, the pram handle and fast-food restaurant tables a once over before using.  

14. Clean your car. Keep a pack in your glove box for cleaning that split coffee you precariously left on the dashboard. Or to clean that bird poo on your windscreen that’s been there for days.

15. Wipe excess grease off frying pans before washing. It will save you time when you get round to doing the washing up later.  

16. Make your shoes sparkle. The shoe-shining thing can be seriously time consuming, so give them a quick wipe instead.

17. Clean pen marks from walls and floors. All parents need to know how incredibly effective this is.

18.  Use to clean the bathroom. Ideal when you can’t be bothered to get the bleach out.

19.  Sore nose? Use a baby wipe to blow it instead of a tissue. It's a great and subtle moisturiser.

20.  Scrub off pen marks on your skin. Yep, this really works.

21.  Get rid of make-up marks. Use one to get that pesky foundation stain off your shirt collar.

22.  They’re great for getting deodorant stains out of clothes. White armpit marks, be gone!

23. Attach one to a mop when cleaning. It will pick up all the extra dust.

24.  Use as a scented drawer liner. Put a few drops of your favourite essential oil on one and leave it in your underwear drawer to make everything smell lovely.

25. Hate licking envelopes? Use a baby wipe to moisten the glue before sealing it shut instead. Genius.

26. Use as a desk wipe. Office cleaner non-existent or a bit lacking? Keep a pack at work to spruce up your desk when it needs it.

27. Clean your feet with a wipe. This is especially helpful in the summer when you’re feet are sticky from wearing flip-flops all day long.

28. Clean those hard-to-get-to areas on furniture. Like the spaces between the rungs on the backs of chairs.

29. Use them to clean your yoga mat. We're not sure how else you would clean one of these, anyway...

30. Skirting board cleaner. One quick wipe gets rid of all of the dust and dirt build up.

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