| Changing diapers is every parent’s job, and most | | | | paper goods so that they are a dazzling white also |
| of us do so happily with tender loving care, however | | | | lets the chlorine derivatives to find their way into our |
| when it comes to cleaning old fashioned cloth diapers, | | | | water and ground, causing harm to our sensitive |
| there is a problem. After complete rinsing of the | | | | ecology balanced world. Finding environmentally safe |
| contents, throwing the soiled diapers into the | | | | diapers that were chlorine free as well as removing |
| family’s washing machine is repugnant to many. | | | | the toxic pollutants was essential to proper |
| Those who do so though understand that they need | | | | environmentalism. |
| to kill the bacteria contained in those diapers and thus | | | | Not only that, but chlorine free diapers are significantly |
| have to resort to adding chlorine (bleach) to the wash. | | | | gentler to our babies’ tender and highly sensitive |
| Unfortunately although the diapers come out white and | | | | skin. A baby’s skin is much thinner, and intensely |
| stain free, the bodies of their babies are subject to the | | | | more fragile as well as less oily than an adult’s skin. |
| harsh realities of chlorine-laden diapers. | | | | Their skin produces substantially less melanin, and it is |
| Thus, parents have switched to disposable diapers, but | | | | significantly less resistant to harmful bacteria and other |
| upon discovering that even disposable diapers have | | | | damaging substances found in their environment, |
| been created using chlorine to give the paper products | | | | especially once the skin is irritated. Thus keeping toxic |
| that ultra-white color that parents prefer, parents have | | | | chlorine away from baby’s skin is of extreme |
| diligently searched for alternatives. “Natural” | | | | importance. |
| paper products are tan or brownish in color, and many | | | | There are a number of brands of chlorine free diapers, |
| objected to the color. Thus manufacturers of | | | | many of which are the unbleached tan color |
| disposable diapers began making chlorine-free diapers | | | | mentioned above, but some are the pristine white |
| that were white in color. | | | | required by some parents. In that case, most of the |
| This was no easily attained feat, as white paper is | | | | white paper products used to make chlorine free |
| bleached to attain that pristine white quality. However | | | | diapers use wood pulp that has been whitened using |
| modern ingenuity found alternatives that are not | | | | chlorine-free hydrogen peroxide |
| harmful to the environment as chlorine bleached paper | | | | Most of the chlorine free diapers can be easily |
| is, and babies are no longer trapped in products that | | | | ordered online, and performing a price research on |
| contain harmful toxins against their tender | | | | them is a good idea as occasionally you can save a |
| skin—toxins, in the form of dioxins that have been | | | | substantial bit of money that way. You may also find |
| directly linked to producing cancer. | | | | them locally in health food stores. Also, because they |
| Chlorine-free diapers have been proven to be much | | | | are gaining in acceptance, it is expected that they will |
| less destructive to the environment in landfills, after all it | | | | soon be available in other consumer friendly stores in |
| is a known scientific fact that using chlorine to bleach | | | | the near future. |