The Best Britches for Your Baby: Pampers Diapers Versus Huggies Diapers

Victor Mills was an employee for the company Procter and Gamble and he was trying to find a solution to his grandchildren's 'toilet issues'. He found cloth diapers inconvenient and decided that the company's pulp mill produced good absorbent paper. This led to him creating the world's very first disposable diapers in the year 1961. Although a name wasn't given to it immediately, it eventually came to be known as Pampers. These disposable diapers faced unprecedent success in the US market and by the late 1960s Pampers had become a national brand.

The 1970s saw an upsurge in the demand for disposable diapers. This was the time when Kimberly-Clark came out with their production of disposable diapers and named the brand Huggies. Huggies was introduced in 1978 and it proved big competition for Pampers and they remain rivals in the diaper market to this day. Some say that the competition runs deeper than that between Pepsi and Coca Cola! The demand for disposable diapers remained in excess of supply for a long time to come.

Huggies offers several choices of diapers. They have Huggies Preemies which was more recently introduced in the market and are diapers for premature babies. They are smaller than diapers made for normal sized babies. Huggies came out with Pull-Ups in 1989 which are specially made for potty training children. Huggies even has a range called Goodnites which are diapers for older children as well as teenagers who have bed wetting problems. Huggies Little Swimmers are swim pants for children. Apart from these niche categories the Huggies range of traditional diapers are known as Huggies Supreme and Huggies Baby Shaped that come in different sizes for children weighing anything upto 70lbs. The sizes go all the way up to 6. Huggies started using a cloth like outer covering for the Supreme and now they even have Ultratrims which are smaller than the big old bulky diaper of yester years. By the year 2000 all diapers were made thin and the concept of a bulky diaper has now faded away into oblivion. Huggies is also known for its superabsorbent material used on the inside of the diaper.