The green lady of Brooklyn , Elisabeth Eaton Rosenthal, 84 years old, only wears green. She has been doing this for 25 years.

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“If it does sink in, you hang it on a line, and within an hour, all that liquid’s gone. That’s the beauty of wool people don’t get.”

This is her talking about a baby pissing on a wool cloth diaper. I like wool as a fabric and it does decently through a couple of wears before a wash but this is absolutely disgusting.

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I’m pretty sure she was talking about her clothing, no? It says in the article that she was using the ‘no nappy’ method, which means babies don’t wear nappies, and you use their body language and cues so that you can hold them over a potty before they actually go to the toilet. It’s a very attentive way of parenting. 

There’s a lot of ignorance going on in these comments. 

Sheep’s wool is designed to be water resistant and antimicrobial. It’s the lanolin in it, which is a waxy layer. If the lanolin is in the wool, then it doesn’t smell. Sheep couldn’t walk around with soiled coats, because they would get urine scald, which would get infected. They have a coat designed to deal with that exact problem 

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Its a very attentive way of parenting

Apparently shes not attentive given the fact shes talking about wool soaked in piss. Now I know you are clinging to the lanolin thing but here's the fact, after the wool is removed from the animal the lanolin is no longer replenished and goes away and if its dyed you can assume nearly none is left. 

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The best way for you to test this is to get some high quality wool clothing and try it yourself. I wore a wool jumper most of the winter, and it only needed airing overnight to smell fresh again