Best baby wipes I've found (Tesco My Baby's Ultra Soft Wipes)

Member Name: clairestevens

Product:	Tesco My Baby's Ultra Soft Wipes
Date:	30/01/08 (75 review reads)
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Advantages: Easy to use, get bottoms clean

Disadvantages: None

I have two one-year-olds, so we get through quite a few nappies, as you can probably imagine! When we were still in the hospital, the midwives came round to show you the proper way of bathing and changing your babies. When it came to changing their nappies, they showed us how to wash their nappy areas using a bowl of tepid water, a bowl of cotton balls and a spare bowl for the used cotton wool. Now I have the greatest of respect for anyone who carried on using this method once they got home from the hospital, but the moment we got home it became all about the wet wipes. The question was, which wet wipes?

It soon became clear that the best wet wipes would:

-Come in their own easily-re-sealable packet so as not to dry out.

-Be easy to pull out of the packet one at a time with one hand (while the other hand holds a fat little pair of legs in the air) and not come out in one inseperable stream

-Remove everything that needed to be removed from the delicate tushies of the newest members of Team Stevens.

If you're not used to the wet wipe market, you have the premium wipes (brand names like Pampers, Huggies, Simple), ordinary wipes (supermarkets own brand) and basic (supermarket value brands). Over the last year we have tried them all, and have found the winners to be.......Tesco My Baby Wipes!

They come in two 'flavours' - scented (a mild soapy smell) in a pale green packet and unscented (for more delicate skin) ina pale blue packet. The packets themselves have a hard plastic opening which keeps the packet fairly airtight to prevent the wipes inside from drying out. Pampers and Johnsons both just have a sticky label that becomes dcidedly unsticky once it hjas been lifted a few times.

The wipes themselves are stacked so that they come out one at a time instead of in a maddening line of twenty or so. This probably doesn't seem important, but when you have PMT and the baby you are trying to change is wiggling about with a pooey bottom and the wipes won't come out of the packet properly it feels like the world is about to fall down around your ears. Trust me on this.

Lastly, they actually do what they are supposed to! They get poo off bottoms! Again, it seems obvious that this is what wipes should do , but some brands are so damp that they end up just smearing the poo around so that it takes about twenty wipes to clean your baby's bottom. Tesco wipes are just the right size to wipe, fold and then wipe again. They have a slightly grainy (though not rough) finish which seems to help too.

The ingredients include moisturising baby lotion to help protect delicate skin and have extracts of Aloe Vera and Chamomile, to gently cleanse, sooth and moisturise. They are gentle enough to use on your baby's face too - we have a packet sitting by the high chairs to mop up mealtime spills!

As far as I can tell, the wipes are not biodegradable, so that would be the only downside. they don't disintegrate like toilet paper does either, so you shouldn't flush them down the toilet either.

Tesco My Baby wipes come in a pack of 80 for £1.09, or you can get a multipack of four packs for £3.80 (95p a pack) and are only available from Tescos. This compares favourably to Johnsons and Pampers wipes, which are both £2.50 for a pack of 64 or 72 respectively.

Summary: Proof that cheap can be good