Eco Friendly Diapers

Cloth or Disposable Diapers – Pros and Cons

This article lays out the pros and cons of both to help you make the right decision for you and your family.

Disposable Diaper Pros

• Convenient
  Disposable diapers are extremely convenient, no doubt about it. It makes changing your infant a quick and easy process. When you’re shopping and you have to change a messy cloth diaper, you don’t get to just drop it in the garbage, you have to haul it around with you. Ick!
• Better fit
  Disposable diapers seem to fit better. The adjustable adhesive fasteners make it easy to fit any size or shape baby. This is not always so with a cloth diaper which always seems to stretch out once you have it on your child and certainly more so once it’s been soiled.

Disposable Diaper Cons

• Harmful for the environment
  Disposable diapers are petroleum-based products, which means, they’re just downright awful for the environment. Carbon emissions are created in the manufacturing of disposable diapers, fuel is used in the transportation from manufacturer to store and diapers don’t biodegrade but sit in landfills for decades.
• Contain chemicals
  Disposable diapers also contain a number of chemicals, which may harm an infant’s sensitive skin.

• Expensive
  Disposable diapers are more expensive than cloth diapers even if you have a diaper service.

To resolve that you can use the Nature Babycare Diapers that are 100% chlorine-free and keep oil-based plastics away from babies sensitive skin.

Cloth Diaper Pros

• Environmentally friendly
  

  Cloth diapers can be environmentally sound, particularly if you purchase organic cotton diapers.

  And while cloth diapers have to be laundered, which does contaminate the water supply and use water, they can be washed with biodegradable detergent. This makes them more environmentally friendly than disposable.

  However, if you have a diaper service then you’ll also have to weigh in the fact that delivery is contributing to greenhouse gases.

• Reusable
  Cloth diapers don’t fill landfills. They’re reusable.
• Less expensive

Cloth diapers are generally less expensive than disposable.
• No chemicals
  Cloth diapers, if they’re organic, don’t have harmful chemicals which means they’re not going to be as likely to irritate your baby’s skin.

Cloth Diaper Cons

• Inconvenient
  Although they are more eco friendly diapers, they’re inconvenient, particularly for moms on the go.

  They don’t necessarily fit as well, though some cloth diapers being manufactured today do have a better fit and fastening system than the old rectangle and diaper pin method.

• Chemicals in the non organic cotton
  If cloth diapers are not organic, then the cotton used to make them is grown and harvested with pesticides, chemical fertilizers and other environmentally harmful chemicals.

Disposable diapers are more convenient, though more expensive and they are generally an environmentally unfriendly practice. However, there is also the more eco friendly diapers option, Nature Babycare Diapers that are 100% chlorine-free and keep oil-based plastics away from babies sensitive skin.

Cloth diapers, if they’re organic, are the most eco friendly diapers. The downside is they’re inconvenient. Ultimately, the decision to buy disposable or cloth must meet your personal beliefs as well as your lifestyle.

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