Cloth Toilet Paper - How to Reduce Your Paper Consumption One Square at a Time

Recently Sheryl Crow publicly urged her fans to try to conserve on toilet paper to help save our natural resources. She does have a good point.

On average the US alone spends over 5.7 billion dollars on toilet paper alone each year. That is expected to double by the year 2010. We are literally flushing away the earth's numerous biologically rich habitat's down the toilet.

Contrary to popular belief, old growth and non harvested forests are used in the production of paper goods. These forests are replaced with tree plantations. The problem with tree farming is that these produce 90% less species than a natural forest would. Not only are we wasting trees but we are killing off important species of plants and animals that are imperative to the life cycle of the forest.

Regardless of the resources used to generate toilet tissue, it also makes us, as consumer's, Dependant on one more thing and to the big box and retail stores. There is a growing trend in the natural family living communities across the country to institute cloth toilet paper in the home. Many families have made the switch happily.

Using cloth toilet paper is not only economical choice but once you try it I swear you'll never go back! It may seem gross at first, but I assure you wiping with cloth instead of paper is much more comfortable! We have been using it in our household for going on 7 months now. I, like many others, was reluctant to give it a try at first due to the gross factor. After cutting out cloth napkins and paper towels over 7 years ago, then cloth diapering my babies for a couple of years, it seemed like a natural choice for our family. I also decided if cloth wipes were good enough for my children, they are good enough for me! Also, I really hate it when we run out of toilet paper! As for comfort, like i mentioned previously, you will find using cloth after bowel movements to be much easier and cleaner feeling.