Also, do you know your water hardness ppm? In addition to everything already said, if your water is crazy hard (300ish and above), you may also want a water softener in your rinses, in addition to your wash cycle. If your water is less hard (200 and below) you could save money by using a detergent that already has added softeners, like Tide. Unless you are deliberately not using a mainstream detergent for other reasons.
And @smalllmin, bleach just kills things, it doesn't clean. Besides shortening the life of your diaper, it also just covers up a problem, rather than solving it. Bleach can give you some important breathing room when you're struggling to troubleshoot, but if you're not getting poo out of your diapers, adding bleach just gives you dead poo, rather than the no poo that you can get with the right water/detergent/agitation combo. Also, bleach is very much the wrong answer when the problem is ammonia, because the combo makes mustard gas. You need a lot of ammonia for it to escape your washing machine, but eww. Really the only thing that bleach is the right answer for is killing yeast and killing potential yeast on used diapers. But it will still shorten the life of your diapers. Also, I would recommend using it in your washing machine. Its easier on your diapers, bathtub and hands. Bleach only needs to come in contact with something to kill it. All soaking does is give it more time to break down the PUL/fibers on your diapers. If you're bleaching a single used diaper and don't want to bleach a whole load, 10 minutes in a diluted bleach solution in a bucket will be more than sufficient.
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