How to read a baby wipes pack
Most packs look the same from the front. Turn one over and the back tells a different story: one lists four ingredients you can pronounce, the next has a paragraph of preservatives and fragrance compounds.
That difference matters. A wipe touches your bub's skin six to ten times a day in the first weeks, and infant skin is thinner and more permeable than adult skin. Ours is a bamboo-fibre cloth with over 97 per cent purified water and no added fragrance, and the full list is printed on every pack.
What to look for, in any brand
A short ingredient list. Fragrance-free rather than unscented, because unscented can mean a masking fragrance was added. Alcohol-free, which matters most on skin that is already irritated. And a preservative system that is not methylisothiazolinone or methylchloroisothiazolinone, which the Australian dermatology record has an uncomfortable amount to say about.
We wrote a full guide to this that does not mention our own product once: the baby wipes guide walks through the label, the substrate, the formula, and which claims are worth anything.
Formats
An 80-wipe pouch for the change table, a carton of six for the cupboard, a 20-wipe travel pouch sized for a nappy bag pocket, and a six-pack travel bundle. Same cloth and same formula in every format; only the pack changes.
Disposal
Used wipes go in the general waste bin, not the toilet and not the green bin, whatever any pack claims about flushability. The only things that should go down an Australian toilet are pee, poo and toilet paper.




