How to bathe kittens without getting clawed up?

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Two of the kittens (technically the cat and kittens are my brother's, but I take care of them) has been getting into something. Everyone has been complaining that these kittens smell horrible (I have no sense of smell myself), so I've been washing them. What I've been doing is wetting two washcloths, adding soap (dawn) to one, and running the washcloths over them in the same manner that their mother grooms them. (She does groom them--I've seen her do it. I don't know why they smell, or why it's only these two kittens that smell.) According to my mother, that wasn't doing anything for the smell, so I tried running a bath for the kittens. They're big enough that their claws go deep, and I'm sure the scratches will scar when they heal. (No, I did not punish the kittens for scratching me, because that course of action strikes me as stupid.) So, what should I do?
 
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About ten weeks.
 

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Try pet bathing wipes instead of giving the kittens an actual bath.
 
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What are pet bathing wipes? I've never heard of them.
 

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I always trim claws before bathing my cats. It saves a lot of my skin. :lol3:
 
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