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Lately, chlorine has appearing more and more in the news, and not just as a nasty-smelling ingredient in the public pools. And, you know -- if its mere presence in pools is causing respiratory and lung problems -- I can't help but wonder what it is doing to the kids who wear chlorine-laden diapers every single day for the first few years of their life.Chlorine creates dangerous toxins, particularly dioxin, which is suspected to cause cancer. Even if there is no real proof that small amounts of chlorine in store-bought diapers can cause any real harm, why risk it? The only real purpose of chlorine in diapers is to make them gleaming white and attractive -- which actually is kind of insane when you think of what diapers are there to do. Although my son is nearly out of his diapers (fingers crossed, tongue rolled and penance said faithfully), I've been trying to live cleaner, especially with products that touch him, so I decided to give Seventh Generation pull ups a test-drive.Now, Seventh Generation makes the only chlorine free diapers on my grocer's shelf. The price? $ 23.99 for a pack of 32 -- about 75 cents a diaper. Huggies makes the cheery bright white version for $ 18.99 for a pack of 32 - 60 cents a diaper. That's quite a big difference, especially since lack of chlorine and decoration is the only palpable difference between these brands.As this review states - Seventh Generation diapers are not bio-degradable and they still contain the same super absorbent gel strip that the big commercial brands carry. The only difference is the lack of chlorine in the product. So -- is it worth it to pay $ 6.00 more for a pack of chlorine free diapers? It is, in my book. The simpler the better, even if it's not quite simple enough.View PollPermalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments



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