Whole Foods 365 Everyday Value Diapers Vs. Pampers Cruisers

One of the things I love about Atlanta is the prevelence of Whole Foods Market stores. There are seven in the greater metro Altanta area.

If for no other reason, I make a weekly trip to Whole Foods to purchase baby diapers-specifically their private label 365 Everyday Value Baby Diapers.

I had used the Pampers line of diapers (Swaddlers and Cruisers in particular) for my baby son (now three years old), and found their performance superior to that of the other popularly known commercial brands.

I was in the midst of going the same route with my second baby, a daughter, when I discovered my preference for Whole Foods 365 Everyday Value Baby Diapers.

How did this come to pass? At about six months old, and into a Size 3 diaper, I noticed that my daughter's little butt cheeks and the "diaper line" of her skin seemed to remain consistently reddened, chaffed and non-responsive to diaper rash cream remedies.

At her pediatrician's suggestion, I decided to switch to another brand of diapers and see if I didn't notice a difference.

Knowing that my past experiences had left me feeling leery of other leading brands, I chose to consider something I'd yet to try and purchased Whole Foods 365 Everyday Value Baby Diapers. Within a few days, using the Whole Foods diaper, in conjunction with the complementary baby wipes in their line, my daughter's buttocks lost their raw texture and returned to being "smooth as a baby's bottom".

While Pampers claimed that their diapers contained the mild ingredients of petrolatum, stearyl alcohol and aloe barbadensis leaf extract "which are gentle to the skin", clearly something in their product did not agree with my baby's hide.

Perhaps it was whatever it was in their diaper padding that they advised might leave a "gel-like material" on my daughter's skin. Although they assured on the diapers' packaging that one should not be alarmed by the material, as it could, "be easily removed by wiping your baby's skin with a cloth," I wonder if that or any or all of the above was the culprit for her adverse reaction.