Diapers carry no required ingredient list, so we read the material disclosures, checked the certifications at their issuers, and traced who owns each brand. Six picks, from a $12 pack to a $105 box.
Cloth wins on landfill and loses on water and energy. The comparison is closer than you’d think, it depends heavily on how you wash, and anyone who tells you it’s obvious is selling something.
Almost every diaper brand says “chlorine-free” now. Two very different processes hide behind that phrase, and only one of them means no chlorine chemistry was used at all.
Perfume in a diaper exists to mask odor for the adult changing it, not to do anything for the baby wearing it. And one word on the package can hide dozens of undeclared ingredients.
Diapers are one of the only products worn against a baby’s skin around the clock, and manufacturers aren’t required to tell you what’s in them. Here’s the actual construction, layer by layer.
We read the performance data sheets, checked what each system is actually certified for, and traced who owns every brand. Here are the water filters worth buying, from a $65 dispenser to countertop reverse osmosis.
An NSF logo on its own means almost nothing. The number after it is the whole message, and one of the numbers filters still advertise was retired years ago.
Your utility has to publish a report on your water every year, and it’s free. Here’s how to read it, what it leaves out, and the one contaminant no utility report can tell you about.
Two filters, two completely different mechanisms. One strains water through a membrane, the other makes contaminants stick to carbon. Which one you need depends entirely on what’s in your water.
The standard Brita filter isn’t certified to reduce PFAS at all. The Elite is, for exactly two of them. Here’s what the peer-reviewed testing found, and what it means for the pitcher on your counter.