Washing Bottles

We have a dishwasher in our house but it isn't the greatest. I don't trust that it cleans Princess's bottles good enough to put them in there so we hand wash her bottles everyday.  Though yes, it is an extra chore, through trial and error I've come up with the following system to make it as efficient as possible.

My supplies: Basin from the hospital, Dawn dish soap, Dr. Brown's bottle brush, Munchkin nipple brush

My bottles and bottle pieces ready to be washed.

I use one of the wash basins you get at the hospital, but if you already have a similar basin at home it will work just the same.  The basin sits on the counter in the kitchen and throughout the day after Princess is done with the bottle we just toss them in the basin.  At the end of the day or the next morning I will disassemble the bottles (we use Dr. Brown's so there's several parts involved), rinse out the bottle of any leftover milk, then place everything back in the basin.  Then I fill it up with hot water and dish soap.  From there I just scrub out the bottles and nipples and rinse everything else off.  I can wash her 12 bottles and parts in about 20 minutes.  Because the bottles are soaking while you are washing them it helps cut down on the need to scrub them out as much. When I'm done I hang everything out to dry on my Munchkin High Capacity Drying Rack (which I love!).

Now as far as what I use to scrub out the bottles I use the Dr. Brown's bottle brush, however I'm not a fan of the nipple cleaner on the opposite end of the brush.  I actually bought a Munchkin brand brush to try but found it was too big for the regular Dr. Brown's bottles and created a big mess when I pushed the brush in and pulled it out of the bottles.  Soap and water sprayed everywhere! That's a mess I only cleaned once before ditching that brush.  However, the nipple cleaner on the Munchkin brush is great! So I use the Dr. Brown's bottle brush with the Munchkin nipple cleaner.  Before I used the Munchkin nipple cleaner my nipples were getting cloudy, however I no longer have that issue. I also just use Dawn soap to clean Princess's bottles.  Happy washing mommies!!

*Please note I am not compensated by Dr. Brown's or Munchkin for this review, and this only reflects my personal view on the items mentioned here.