12x 80-Pack Plant-Based Baby Wipes for $41.97 + Shipping @ Luvme

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Mr BoMBAStiG on 01/09/2025 - 07:20 luvme.eco (86 clicks)
Last edited 01/09/2025 - 16:39 by 1 other user

BABYCOMEBACK

Is this the cheapest baby wipes deal? No. But they are Aussie owned, plastic free, phenoxyethanol free and in my experience pull out pretty well. You cannot under estimate how important wipe pull out consistency is when it is 2am and you are cleaning up a massive poo in dim light!
I usually stick with the Huggies ones as they pull perfectly almost every time and also don't have an ingredient that has been proven to cause central nervous system (CNS) depression in infants. However when a price like this pops up, it's good to support small and local and it seems like luvme is trying to do the right thing by the environment and babies.

The real deal here might actually be their water wipes (if you need the bare minimum in your wipe) which are $45.47 for 12x80packs with the coupon code and have only water and some grapefruit seed extract as ingredients: https://luvme.eco/products/haleco-80pk-water-wipes-12-pack?v…

For context, a good Huggies deal is about $2.50 per pack and these are $3.50 per pack in this deal.

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  shizmo on 01/09/2025 - 10:22

  Cheapest shipping option $27.63 - kinda wild

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    EBC on 01/09/2025 - 11:05

    Was $11 for me in metro Sydney.

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  EBC on 01/09/2025 - 11:15

  +1

  Anyone know if the water wipes version of these use "trace amounts of benzalkonium chloride" like the "Waterwipes" brand? That chemical is a broad spectrum biocide that is presumably being used as the preservative in these seemingly preservative free baby wipes (you do need something to keep mould and bacteria from growing in constantly moist, and sometimes warm if using a wipes warmer, environments). It is also used in "spray and go" patio cleaners to kill the lichen/moss/algae and in Canesten clothes wash to kill fungus and bacteria.

  Also point of clarity around the phenoxyethanol being "proven to cause central nervous system (CNS) depression in infants". This isn't really correct as far as I have read. The FDA recommended people not use nipple cream which contained chlorphenesin and phenoxyethanol. This was a proactive recommendation, not one based on reported injuries to infants (none had been reported at the time the FDA made the recommendation).

  "The FDA is particularly concerned that nursing infants are being unwittingly exposed by their mothers to this product with dangerous side effects," said Janet Woodcock, M.D., director, FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. "Additionally, these two ingredients may interact with one another to further compound and increase the risk of respiratory depression in nursing infants."

  So certainly not a causative link as far as I can tell. Also the other chemical (and the synergistic effects) were also of concern. And the oral route of ingesting nipple cream.

  All that said, I did buy a 12 pack from this deal but will use Curash after that is used up.

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    EBC on 01/09/2025 - 13:28

    Ended up down a rabbit hole on this one. For anyone curious:

    Commercial grapefruit seed extract (the only other ingredient used in Waterwipes and the ones here - link in the text of the post not the OP deal) is pretty universally contaminated with benzalkonium chloride or other antimicrobial agents like parabens and triclosan. The research shows that grapefruit seed extract itself has no antimicrobial properties and that it is only the antimicrobial agents added that do.

    From the below paper: "This work has demonstrated for the first time the presence of benzalkonium chloride in commercial GSE samples. It seems unlikely that the high concentrations of BAC (22%; benzalkonium chloride) arise from contamination or that the preservative is formed during the extraction and/or processing of grapefruit seeds and pulp. The presence of BAC in a commercial product designated for internal and external use by humans is troubling in light of its toxicity and allergenicity. This research adds to the list of synthetic preservatives such as benzethonium chloride, methyl paraben (methyl 4-hydroxybenzoate), and triclosan that have been identified in commercial GSE samples."

    https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jf0514064

    Further: "In only one of the grapefruit seed extracts tested no preservative agent was found. However, with this extract as well as with several self-made extracts from seed and juiceless pulp of grapefruits (Citrus paradisi) no antimicrobial activity could be detected (standard serial broth dilution assay, agar diffusion test). Thus, it is concluded that the potent as well as nearly universal antimicrobial activity being attributed to grapefruit seed extract is merely due to the synthetic preservative agents contained within. Natural products with antimicrobial activity do not appear to be present."

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10399191/

    In summary, these more "natural" water wipes with just water and grapefruit seed extract are exploiting a loophole by buying grapefruit seed extract from companies that are adding unlisted microbials in unknown amounts (up to 22% in the first article) to give the extract its antimicrobial properties. The company then uses this "natural" grapefruit seed extract and only has to list that as the ingredient.

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      Mr BoMBAStiG on 01/09/2025 - 17:20

      This is crazy and disgusting to read. Thanks for doing the research. Seems you can't win no matter how much you try or spend!

      Someone needs to invent a water spray cleaner like the ones they use in pubs for glasses but you kind of dunk your kid in it and it jet sprays everything then said blasts them dry.

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  Naigrabzo on 02/09/2025 - 18:59

  The coolest thing about this is that it's wrapped in plastic so your baby gets a dose of micro and nano plastic.