When baby girl was a newborn we discovered Huggies Natural Wipes in big refill bags on Amazon, and found them to be very affordable and easy to pull out of the box. Unfortunately, when I went to reorder them a few months ago on Amazon I found that they’ve stopped selling them and that individual sellers have them listed for more than double what we were paying. This has caused us to be on a wipe search (although I actually did find them back on a few days ago so maybe they’ll be back for good).
My list of needs in baby wipes
-Don’t cause irritation or rashes
-Unscented/fragrance-free
-Affordable
-Clean ingredients (specifically no phthalates, parabens, or fragrance)
-Preferably in refillable packs as we already have containers to put them in
-Easy to peel apart and get one out at a time, we hate it when they are difficult and a handful comes out
-Thick enough that they don’t just tear apart
Kinds we have tried
Huggies natural: Easy to pull only one out of the container, thick, soft (we always bought them on amazon, but they stopped selling them for a while so we needed another option we like)
Abby & Finn: Very wet, clean ingredients
Pampers: Too thin, tear apart
Hello Bello: Very hard to get out of the container and peel apart, clean ingredients
Target up and up Sensitive Skin: Very soft, easy to pull out, clean ingredients
Target cloud island: Difficult to pull out, I hate how they smell (my husband said he hasn’t noticed a scent but it bothers me)
We quite like being able to order wipes online as we are getting low especially where we know we get them so quickly with prime, but I truthfully could not find any with the ingredients I wanted for the price I liked on Amazon. Then I saw the ingredients in the Babyganics wipes and was sold…until I read their reviews, oh my gosh there were so many complaints of black mold being on the wipes. No thank you. I decided to continue my search. I ended up on Target’s website, and saw they were having a sale on diapers and wipes so I decided to just start looking through their ingredients lists on the different wipes they sell. I was happily surprised to find that they have two of their baby store brands that have wipes with good ingredients. These are Up and Up Sensitive Skin wipes and Cloud Island Wipes. I ended up ordering some of both to figure out which we prefer and am really hopeful that one of them will work out for us.
After trying both we had a favorite by far. The Up and Up Sensitive Skin Wipes (this distinction is important as these have much better ingredients than both the unscented version, and scented version of Up and Up wipes) are fantastic. Like we loved them. Also can I just mention that it is only $12.39 for 736 wipes. Just for reference one of the most highly talked about natural wipes right now are called Water Wipes, they cost $42.99 for 720 wipes. For me, that’s just not affordable. These may have a few more ingredients than water wipes, but I have been very happy with their quality, price, and the ingredients they chose not to include.
Seriously after changing her the first time with the Up and Up wipes I knew they were a winner, but had to wait a while to make sure they didn’t cause a reaction or anything. They are so soft, didn’t have any apparent smell to me, and were SO EASY to get out of the container…finally (haha you might have noticed that is important to us). I also love the ingredients. Unfortunately as we all know there is currently a shortage in many things, and these are included in that so we haven’t been able to buy more in a few weeks. We were very grateful to see our Huggies Natural Wipes back on Amazon to get us through the next bit until we can get more. If you have been looking for a gentle baby wipe with clean ingredients I highly suggest trying the Up and Up brand (just make sure you check ingredients between their different scents, I felt like sensitive skin were the cleanest). I will list the ingredients below because I couldn’t find them on the website, so I got them off the package.
Up and Up Sensitive Skin Baby Wipes Ingredients
Purified Water
Citric Acid
Decyl Glucoside
Sodium Citrate
Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate
Gluconic Acid
Sodium Benzoate
WELL BALANCED 