Stripping, do I need it?

So, its been two months of cloth diapering and I have been washing only with green soap, since I did not have decided what should I buy (unfortunatelly I did not find anything suitable at the super market and I just got the famous soap nuts).

Everytime they dry, I like watching them and I smell them...

This time I did not like AT ALL the smell...

Let alone that the first stains came up... Ups, here is an unexpected leakage as well...

Does this mean the time has come for the first stripping?

I have the following questions;

1) Why couldn't I wash them with a normal laundry detergent, just to make sure they will clean very well, and then do a dozen of rinses just to make sure that nothing is left?

2)Why the materials that smell the most are the microfleece and the polyester? Here comes the value of the raw materials as cotton and bamboo?

3) Is there any chance that the good cleaning of the diapers is the reason why all manufacturers don't make pocket nappies?

Too many questions for me and I want answers to all of them. 

So it is time for washing and searching!

P.S. Do not think that the previous post about stripping was written just now on purpose...It just happend! The perfect mother enstict!

Stripping or "Get everything of"

After some time of use

or if leaks start

or if it smells ammonia after a few peeing 

or if you used a nappy rush cream without a liner 

or if you forgot the diapers in the bucket for more than 2-3 days unwashed, 

or just for periodic maintenance, anyway,

you should clean your diapers from any residues. 

So you have to do stripping! 

   The diapers that have hemp or microfleece tend to keep at their fibers more odors and residues than the purest, such as cotton and bamboo. 

   The easiest procedure about stripping that I found is from "clothnappy.info":

Step 1 - Clean your washing machine, sometimes the detergent build up can be traced back to the machine itself. A 90 degree full cycle with an empty drum will do this. 

Step 2 - Run your nappies through a 60 degree full cycle with a full cup of detergent, to ensure they are cleaned thoroughly.

Step 3 - Rinse, rinse, rinse! Give your nappies plenty of cold rinses and only stop when you can no longer see any bubbles mid cycle.

Simple things...

I thought it was necessary to get an opinion from a greek mommy, diaper-user, so here is what Chrysa, from the parents.gr forum, is doing (hope I managed the translation...);

"I ended using this stripping routine after trying to balance my ecological concerns and the periodic need of my diapers for deeper cleaning. 

The fleece diapers, I put them on a basin with boild water and a little dish washing liquid and when the water gets a little cold, I use an old toothbrush to scrap them insideout.

Afterwards I put them at the laundry machine with the rest of the diapers, at the 60 degrees (I refuse to run a 90 degrees washing cycle, although it is sugested to be better for diaper stripping), I add 6 soapnuts, calgon and 1 teespoon of dishwashing liquid. Then I run one more quick washing cycle at 45 degrees and, finally, a 20 minutes cycle just for rinsing"