Raising a little bundle of joy comes with its fair share of surprises, challenges, plenty of diaper changes—and endless messes that demand organic baby wipes.
But fear not, because there are places where purity meets practicality, and Mother Nature joins forces with modern parenting. With the most natural baby wipes in your diaper bag to keep your little one’s delicate skin as soft as a zero waste baby‘s bottom.
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The Best All-Natural Baby Wipes That Are Green, Clean & Adorably Mean
Kudos helps you breeze through each diaper change and not stress about wrecking the planet. Its premium water wipes are made using 100% cellulosic fibers from sustainably-managed trees. The only other ingredient is 99% purified water.
Or opt for reusables with Gina’s Soft Cloth Shop’s 100% organically-grown cotton cloth. These sensitive skin-friendly baby wipes are workhorses that will last for a very long time.
Index: Non-Toxic Baby Wipes
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DYPER
About DYPER Inc
Price Range: $3–$160
If you couldn’t guess from the name, DYPER Inc’s primary focus is supplying plant-based diapers. However, they also have a range of training pants, diaper rash cream, wash tablets, shampoo, baby bath, body lotion, and some of the safest non-toxic baby wipes—available in all everything from single bags to bulk boxes and reusable pop-top containers.
The brand came about as a solution to one parent’s problem of finding products that contained no harsh chemicals. Plus, founder Sergio Radovcic wanted to leave a better planet for his three children was another guiding factor.
DYPER’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Materials:
DYPER offers 100% bamboo wipes, for bamboo’s naturally hypoallergenic, absorbent, and soft characteristics.
Bamboo fabric has received some bad press in recent years (for sometimes good reason), but theirs is sourced from certified forests, and converted into a usable material using closed-loop systems according to the OEKO-TEX® STeP standard, meaning the all-natural baby wipes are totally non-toxic and are free from alcohol, chlorine, perfumes, latex, lotions, PVC, parabens, TBT, phthalates, and sulfates.
The bamboo wipes are also 95% bio-based, as certified by USDA BioPreferred.
Supply chain & labor practices:
DYPER is a Certified B Corp, but we’ll be checking directly on where their products are made.
Carbon commitments & green practices:
Because diapers aren’t recyclable yet, they offer the REDYPER™ program. The service picks up used diapers and wipes and turns them into something useful. It’s currently available in 21 cities across the US and more cities will be joining soon. If you don’t live in these 21 cities, they offer a mail-in used diaper recycling program, too. To date, DYPER has saved more than 10 million pounds of diapers from landfills and turned them into something useful.
Through a partnership with rePurpose Global, they remove plastic from the environment, aiming to be the first plastic-neutral diaper brand.
Kudos
About Kudos
Price Range: $24
Kudos by name, and kudos by nature, this woman and BIPOC-owned company pulls out the stops when it comes to the best natural baby wipes.
It’s possibly better known for its range of disposable eco-friendly diapers, but also deserves some recognition for its 100% natural baby wipes that are fully biodegradable.
Kudos’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Materials:
Using cellulose fibers harvested from sustainably-managed trees, what makes Kudos’ non-toxic baby wipes different is that no harsh chemicals pollute the environment or harm your baby’s delicate skin. There’s no plastic, only lyocell fibers from sustainably grown wood and during the processing of these gentle wipes, 99% of solvents are recycled.
Kudos wipes are approved by the Environmental Working Group and contain 99% filtered, purified water that’s been specially formulated to be extra gentle on your baby’s skin.
They also contain plant-based squalane which is an exceptional hydrator, glycerin to keep your baby’s skin super soft, and pyrus malus which is an apple fruit extract that also improves skin’s hydration.
Supply chain & labor practices:
While their diapers are made in Germany, Kudos’ wipes are made in the United States.
Carbon commitments & green practices:
While these EWG-certified wipes are compostable and biodegradable, their diapers are not yet—but they have sights set on becoming the first 100% biodegradable diaper brand. They use sugarcane-based PE packaging and are exploring options with commercial composting facilities to see if their diapers could be accepted.
Eco By Naty
About Eco by Naty
Price Range: $4–$13
Eco by Naty was started in the 1990s by a mother who was horrified by the diaper industry and the unethical practices that had become the norm. For the protection of her two sons and the planet, she decided to clean up the diaper industry herself.
The majority of Eco by Naty’s products are certified of some of the toughest environmental standards, and the product range has grown from diapers to non-toxic unscented baby wipes, diaper bags, and plant-based potties.
There are also unscented natural flushable baby wipes that are certified Vegan by the European Vegetarian Union and certified by TÃœV AUSTRIA S0490 to be biobased and home compost certified.
Eco by Naty’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Materials:
The materials used in all these unscented wipes are natural and renewable with 98.5% pure water. Fragrance-free and made without chemicals, the compostable wipes contain calming organic ingredients such as aloe vera leaf juice.
Supply chain & labor practices:
Products are made in Turkey, where Eco by Naty holds their partners to ethical and environmental standards.
Carbon commitments & green practices:
For shipping, products are packed in recycled and recyclable packaging, and track their progress and goals in a sustainability report.
HealthyBaby
About HealthyBaby
Price Range: $28–$32
HealthyBaby already has an excellent reputation for their pioneering EWG-verified diapers that are enhanced with organic cotton.
Following close behind is HealthyBaby’s 100% water and plant-based organic disposable baby wipes that are hypoallergenic and biodegradable. Not only that, they’ve also got the potential to clean up some of the biggest messes, thanks to their bigger-than-average size and embossed surface.
The company was founded by Shazi Visram, owner of a multimillion-dollar organic baby food empire, and an active board member of the Neurological Health Foundation and the Environmental Working Group, so you can trust she knows her stuff when it comes to health and environmental safety.
HealthyBaby’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Materials:
HealthyBaby starts with 100% GOTS-certified organic cotton combined with honeysuckle and chamomile (so they’re not unscented wipes, but are fragrance-free). Honeysuckle also has preservative properties, aided by Sodium Benzoate, a plant-based preservative that helps to protect against microorganisms and harmful bacteria in the water wipes.
HealthyBaby also offers Dry Wipes made from pure organic cotton with no liquid or formula added. Using these, parents can make their own homemade natural baby wipes using purified water.
All materials used are third-party tested for safety, the wipes bear EWG-verification and MADE SAFE certification.
Supply chain & labor practices:
This Certified B Corp’s products are responsibly made using solar energy in California.
Carbon commitments & green practices:
Products are packaged in paper packaging, and production processes are carbon-neutral.
Marley’s Monsters
About Marley’s Monsters
Price Range: $20–$38
With the motto “Live Colorfully, Tread Lightly” Marley’s Monsters can help you save trees with their washable and reusable alternative to disposable wipes. Add water to the single-play cloth wipes, and you can use them just like any other natural baby wipes for cleaning sticky faces and fingers, washcloths, or even toilet paper.
Marley’s UNpaper products are made from high-quality, absorbent cotton flannel. They are designed to be reused over and over again, thereby reducing your waste and saving money.
Marley’s Monsters’ Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Materials:
With Marley’s Monsters organic wipes, baby bums everywhere are kept safe with 100% unbleached cotton flannel.
Supply chain & labor practices:
From a small, one-man operation based in her house, Sarah has turned her business into a company with over 70 employees that’s been featured by Refinery 29, Forbes, and The View. All organic diaper wipes are handmade in Eugene, Oregon.
Carbon commitments & green practices:
Any fabric waste is donated to St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County and ENVIA Fashion where it’s upcycled into new products such as hair accessories, jewelry, and much more.
In addition to their own waste-reducing practices and packaging that earned them BRING Rethink certified certification, providing cloth reusables to common paper products helps prevent tons of preventable paper waste. With their reusable paper towels alone, they estimate they’ve presented the use of over 15 million single-use rolls of paper towels,saving 132,796 trees.
Gina’s Soft Cloth Shop
About Gina’s Soft Cloth Shop
Price Range: $10–$11
Gina’s Soft Cloth Shop provides customers with good quality cloth napkins, paper towel alternatives, placemats, table runners, and other table and kitchenware items.
What makes Gina’s better than even organic disposable baby wipes is the fact that they can be used over and over again, either as natural baby face wipes, hand wipes, or bum wipes. To clean them simply pop them in the washer and dryer along with natural laundry detergent and they’re ready to use again.
Gina’s Soft Cloth Shop’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Materials:
100% GOTS-certified organic cotton is all you’ll find here.
Supply chain & labor practices:
Products are manufactured in West Virginia where workers are treated fairly and paid a living wage, offered generous health care benefits, and have excellent working conditions. Gina’s cotton is imported from a Fair Trade “Farm to Finishing” Factory, where the workers are paid a living wage and treated fairly.
AsYouStitchBaby
About AsYouStitchBaby
Price Range: $15–$20
AsYouStitchBaby is an Etsy shop that sells paperless products, including cloth wipes, cloth napkins, burp cloths, paperless towels, and toilet paper.
Reusable washable cloth wipes are the answer to any zero waste baby. Use them over and over again, washing them in hot, disinfecting water between uses.
AsYouStitchBaby’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Materials:
While some of their paperless wipes are conventional cotton, there are pure organic cotton options handmade from one layer of 100% organic cotton flannel.
Supply chain & labor practices:
AsYouStitch is a mother-and-daughter team from Nashville, TN. Ali the daughter takes care of the business side of things while mom Lori, does most of the sewing of these handmade organic baby wipes.
Carbon commitments & green practices:
By selling strictly through Etsy, they guarantee all products are mailed using carbon-neutral shipping.
Why Choose Certified Organic Baby Wipes?
Let’s first get to the (baby) bottom of a key question: are baby wipes non-toxic?
We’ll let this laundry list of common baby wipe ingredients (mostly preservatives used to keep wet water wipes from molding) answer the question for us:
- Propylene glycol: A petroleum-based chemical that causes skin irritation and kidney issues, and has a much higher toxicity level in children.
- Benzalkonium chloride: Used as a preservative and disinfectant in products (particularly wet baby wipes where mold is a concern) and an irritant and contact allergen
- Parabens: An umbrella term for a category of preservatives linked to cancer, hormone issues, and more.
- Sodium Benzoate: Another preservative linked the chemical to ADHD and can turn into more toxic benzene when mixed with ascorbic acid.
- Phenoxyethanol: A preservative linked to skin irritation.
- Synthetic fragrances: Linked to endocrine disruption (hence why fragrance-free wipes are so important).
- Polysorbate 20: Alone not a big deal, but it’s often treated with toxic ethylene oxide, and contaminated with 1,4 dioxane, which is linked to organ toxicity and cancer.
- Polyethylene glycol (PEG): As with Polysorbate 20, it’s commonly contaminated with 1,4 dioxane.
- Triclosan: A preservative linked to endocrine disruption, immunotoxicity, and allergies, depending on use.
That’s a whole lot of harsh chemicals we can barely pronounce, let alone allow on our baby’s sensitive skin.
