Do you boycott Kimberly-Clarke?

[The[cookie]Doctor]

Duuuude 3ply Quilton was excellent soft on my sore post-birth giving vagina
But otherwise i used to buy the 'safe' recycled brand i think

[Phteven]

Duuuude 3ply Quilton was excellent soft on my sore post-birth giving vagina
But otherwise i used to buy the 'safe' recycled brand i think

Quilton isn't quite so bad. At least it's Aussie owned and most of the pulp is plantation wood.
But what would be even softer on your tender post-natal punanni is water - keep a squeezy sauce bottle by the loo and pack one in your labour bag

[Lulu]

Astrid - I was reading an article about it a few weeks ago - funnily enuff in the dunny.

[Astrid]

DH works in the "poo" industry, he saw first hand the damage it was doing to the sewers.

[AliBaby]

Sorry Brontide. My mistake, I thought it was only one link and clicked the top line and read that.

Still doesnt convince me and there is alot of generalised statements in there.

You can continue boycotting them but I will not.

Cookie- I am surprised that they put that rough stuff in the maternity ward when women clearly need something a bit more gentle! Def a must for the labour bag!

[Phteven]

Here's a fact - each tonne of recycled paper saves 26000 litres of water. That's a lot of water in a country like Australia that is trying to cope with the death of most of its major river systems.

[Junglemum]

I have never boycotted them intentionally, but i don't buy their products. I was brought up with, and always buy recycled toilet paper. I even hate using non-recycled elsewhere.
I have on the odd occasion bought their tissues, but i won't be now, thanks for opening my eyes.

[visitor1]

Kleenex, Huggies, Pull-Ups, Cottonelle, Viva, and Kotex.....you will find them all in my household!

[Trillian]

Alibaby, that's along the same lines as the 'We can pollute as much as we like because we brought a trillion carbon credits" that the major big pulluters like to use to justify not changing their practices

I do buy their toilet paper and I do buy huggies, but that's about it. We are on a septic system so when the septic gets emptied we just dump it up in our hill for eventual use as fertiliser so the toilet paper that goes through it isn't an issue, but the rate at which the kids use it is an issue - I find that kleenex loo paper lasts a lot longer than the 'thinner' ones. And I only buy 2-ply too.

OT, but I didn't much like the 'John Wayne" toilet paper you get in hospital either - so named cause it's rough and tough and takes no sh it from anyone PMSL!

[Junglemum]

Trill- you just reminded me, growing up we had a septic system and Dad had this rule we were only allowed 2 squares of toilet paper. Not that is was adhered to or monitored, but we got the idea not too use too much as it would block up the septic.

I don't much like the toilet paper in alot of hospitals either.....

Why do you think kleenex last longer? Do you think it's b/c it is a bigger roll or that the kids use less?

[MantaRay]

PMSL Falguni - you've just reminded me that my dad used to be the same! Mum always said to ignore him though

[Trillian]

Ange, I guess because some of the cheaper ones just aren't as thick, so they don't do the job quite as well kwim? Whereas the kleenex is slightly thicker so you don't need as much.

[Smoke Jaguar]

When we were about to have DS and DP was still working on me not to use sposies full time (and the recycling service that soon after went bust anyway!), he did quite a search about the claims of these companies and found that every article that was supposed to be factual and unbiased was either sponsored by Kimberley-Clarke or produced by them. That was it for me - the 'it works out to have less environmental impact than cloth nappies' line turned out to be just spin and very, very skewed...not even balanced, because it forgets to mention the water used to produce sposies (as well as other paper products like tissues).
So, outside of pregnancy and post-birth, I opt for recycled paper, preferably in recycled paper packaging, not the plastic wrap. I like the Quilton, too
I use the Aldi tissues and have a box of Kleenex at home because I hadn't been on an Aldi shop for ages and the local Foodworks had little left on shelves.

[Jellyfish]

Trill- you just reminded me, growing up we had a septic system and Dad had this rule we were only allowed 2 squares of toilet paper. Not that is was adhered to or monitored, but we got the idea not too use too much as it would block up the septic.

I don't much like the toilet paper in alot of hospitals either.....

Why do you think kleenex last longer? Do you think it's b/c it is a bigger roll or that the kids use less?

We were notorious for speeding through toilet paper so my Dad set up a clipboard with a pen and paper where we had to log our toilet paper usage... it then became a competition of who could use the least amount haha

[Phteven]

at your Dad and the clipboard. What a classic.

[Junglemum]

Bahahahahah and i thought my dad was bad!