Author: Amy Palanjian / Source: Rodale’s Organic Life
Just before my daughter turned 6 months old, our favorite cloth diapers started to leak multiple times a day. I generally look for the most eco friendly baby products, but after weeks of excess laundry and hours (and hours) spent trying to troubleshoot the fit and possible mineral build up, I made a decision: We were going to switch to eco friendly disposable diapers to save our sanity. Because once you lose a whole day down the rabbit hole of a cloth-diapering group on Facebook, you know you need to reevaluate your priorities.
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Though at first I felt guilty for using disposable diapers, I was comforted to discover that they weren’t necessarily worse than cloth. I was also happy to discover that the options for eco friendly disposable diapers that are affordable, absorbent, and sustainably sourced have greatly widened in recent years, and it’s now possible to pick a brand that provides detailed, transparent information about their manufacturing process.
But which was the best eco friendly diaper for my…
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