Families with children should use cotton towels. What are the advantages of cotton soft towels compared with traditional paper towels?
Wet water is not easy to crack and peel off. Baby wipes is often used for washing. If the falling scraps of paper stick to the baby, not only will the baby feel uncomfortable, but adults also need more time to clean up.
Softer. Baby's skin is delicate, ordinary paper towels are all plant fibers or even chemical fibers, and soft towels without cotton are soft and comfortable.
Throw it if you want. Compared with towels that are not changed frequently, cotton soft towels are more suitable for absorbing moisture after washing your face, and can even be used as cotton pads.
However, in addition to these items, there is often a very important factor that is ignored by everyone, that is, is the cotton towel cotton? Many pure cotton towels are actually not cotton!
Second, the introduction of non-woven fabric classification
Get a box of cotton soft towels. Many times, the materials are written on non-woven fabrics. What is nonwoven fabric? Non-woven fabrics are actually the floorboard of a production process, not raw materials. Besides cotton, there are bamboo, wood and polyester.
The excerpts are as follows:
Non-woven fabrics are made of chemical fibers and plant fibers on wet or dry paper machines with water or air as suspension medium. Although it is not woven cloth, it is called non-woven fabric. Non-woven fabric is a new generation of environmental protection materials, which has the advantages of good strength, breathability and waterproof, environmental protection, flexibility, non-toxic, tasteless, low price, water repellent, breathable, flexible, non-flammable, non-toxic and non-irritating, rich in color and so on.
First put the mind map version of material subdivision:
Non-woven fabrics are divided into the following categories according to different manufacturing processes.
Spunlaced nonwovens, which are made by reinforcing fiber webs with high-pressure water flow, have become the main materials for medical dressings, wound dressings, aviation rags, advanced rags in electronic industry, towels, cotton pads, wet wipes and mask covers because of their high strength, strong hygroscopicity and good verticality.
Heat-sealed nonwoven fabric. It is made by adding adhesive reinforcing material into fiber net, and mainly produces baby diapers, female sanitary napkins, ointment base cloth and so on.
Pulp airlaid nonwoven fabric. Fiber web is enhanced by air impact and has strong hygroscopicity. It is mostly used in disposable sanitary products with high water absorption, such as diapers and sanitary napkins.
Wet nonwoven fabric. Using water as the medium, fibers are made into a net, which is mostly used in tea bags, sound-absorbing materials, wallpaper and so on.
Spunbonded nonwoven fabric. The special non-woven fabric made of filaments sacrifices the handle and brings good tensile properties. Many agricultural materials, carpet base cloth and filter materials use this material.
Melt blown nonwovens. Non-woven fabrics extruded with filaments at high temperature have poor strength and soft hand feel. This kind of non-woven fabric is widely used in clothing industry.
Needle punched nonwoven fabric. Needle-punched nonwovens have balanced performance, excellent elasticity, breathability and hand feel, and are widely used.
It can be seen that the technology of non-woven fabrics is very mature, and its application range is also very wide, covering most industries. At present, spunlaced nonwovens and needle punched nonwovens are widely used in baby wipes. So, what is the problem? The problem lies in cost and technology. Many raw materials of non-woven fabrics are polypropylene (pp material), and only a few are cotton and wood pulp.
Non-natural nonwovens, from the perspective of environmental protection, the recycling of PP materials has not been systematic, which has a certain impact on the environment; In terms of feel and performance, the nonwoven technology of some wet wipes is really unsatisfactory, which does not meet the requirements of the maternal and child industry for nonwoven fabrics-soft, absorbent and non-chipping. Therefore, concerns about non-woven fabrics are also justified.
In this regard, how did the cotton age do it? The medical industry has turned to the all-cotton era of maternal and child industry, using all-cotton non-woven fabrics and applying for patent technology for production technology. It is made of 65,438+0,000% cotton, which is elastic, dry and wet, and completely degradable. After all, the originator of cotton soft towel is not blowing ~
Third, horizontal evaluation.
Let's take a look at the 10 cotton towel I bought first. Due to the limitation of time and financial resources, there are still many excellent brands of pure cotton soft towels that are not included in this evaluation, such as the pure cotton soft towels crystallized in October. I hope you can also recommend your used cotton soft towels for future generations' reference.
The dimensions of this transverse evaluation are: cotton/thickness/water absorption. As for whether cotton is wiped or not, as long as it is made of cotton, there may be some situations, but it is only a matter of more or less. Under normal use, a cotton towel should not lose its hair after being wiped dozens of times, so we won't make a comparison.
In addition, in the actual comparison, it is found that most of the standards currently implemented by cotton towels are still GB 15979, which belongs to the sanitary standard of disposable sanitary products, not the standard of facial tissues that can be used for washing faces, but the standard of toilet paper. I hope the country will have a special cotton soft towel standard as soon as possible ~
Group photo: 7 cotton soft towels (1-7) and 3 non-cotton soft towels (8- 10).
1. curious
Number of lucky draws: 80 times
Purchase price: special purchase, 6 yuan/bag, about 70 cents a piece.
Is it cotton? Yes
Thickness: thin
Water absorption: weak
Curious belongs to a cotton towel that I have used for a long time, and I like the material of 100% American cotton; Of course, the price is also a big factor that attracts me. Curious non-woven fabric is Kimberly's own patented conformal tree-spun non-woven fabric, with finer and softer fibers, and because its wood pulp content is above 70% (generally wood pulp accounts for 50%, which is already excellent), the finished product looks fluffy and feels more comfortable.
However, in daily use, the shortcomings of Curiosity are also exposed, that is, it is relatively small and thin. Because it is thin and weak in water absorption, you should take two pieces when using it. In addition, there is no China standard certification on the package. Let's just say, you can't have it both ways. Be firm.
2. The secret of cotton
Number of lucky draws: 20 times
Purchase price: 3 yuan/bag, each about 0. 15 yuan.
Is it cotton? Yes
Thickness: medium
Water absorption: medium
Since the secret of cotton has taken this name, it is natural to use 100% cotton as a selling point. It is a brand owned by UNI-cotton Technology Company in Britain. Its cotton thickness is ok, its water absorption is average, and it is a little uneven. It can be said that it is a cotton soft towel that is basically qualified and error-free. There is also a cotton towel with soybean fiber, which is a little cheaper. You can also try.
3. henry morgan
Number of pumps: 100 pumps
Purchase price: 6.8 yuan/bag, about 70 cents per piece.
Is it cotton? Yes
Thickness: thin
Water absorption: weak
If the secret of cotton is still a little uneven, then the uniformity of henry morgan is simply the surface of the moon, which is uneven and has poor toughness, and belongs to the kind that can be torn at once. If it also uses nonwoven technology, then this technology is also a very bad nonwoven technology. Although the price is low, the quality is sacrificed too much.
4. Good boy
Number of lucky draws: 20 times
Purchase price: 2 yuan/bag, about 0. 1 yuan.
Is it cotton? Yes
Thickness: thin
Water absorption: weak
Good boy's cotton soft towel, although the area is ok, is thin and breathable, and is destined to have weak water absorption. Note: Non-woven fabric is used, and the thickness of cotton is uneven, which affects the actual use experience.
5. Baby care
Number of lucky draws: 80 times
Purchase price: 12.8 yuan/bag, each about 0. 16 yuan.
Is it cotton? Yes
Thickness: medium
Water absorption: medium
Babycare's pure cotton soft towel has obvious horizontal process traces, and its toughness is much stronger than that of a good boy. The thickness and water absorption are passable.
6.vid
Number of pumps: 100 pumps
Purchase price: 9.9 yuan/bag, about 0. 1 yuan/piece.
Is it cotton? Yes
Thickness: thickness
Water absorption: good
Vida is oversize, the plate size is 200mm*200mm, the thickness is thick, and the natural water absorption is acceptable. The package indicates that it is made of cotton non-woven fabric, and the toughness is acceptable. Combined with the price, it looks good.
7. Sanda
Number of lucky draws: 50 times
Purchase price: 5 yuan/bag, about 0. 1 yuan/piece.
Is it cotton? No, it's made of bamboo fiber.
Thickness: medium
Water absorption: medium
Songda, a pure cotton towel made of bamboo fiber, has unexpected hand feel and water absorption, no unevenness, and no rough feeling of some brands of bamboo paper towels. It can be said that it is a small surprise for non-cotton pure cotton towels. It can be seen that this kind of bamboo fiber cotton towel is not as wrinkled as cotton cotton towel, and looks smoother.
8. Stoke
Number of lucky draws: 20 times
Purchase price: 6 yuan/bag.
Cotton: No.
Thickness: thickness
Water absorption: strong
As a "cotton soft" nonwoven fabric, the raw material is not cotton, which does not meet the GB 15979 standard. It can be seen that embossing is a common embossing method in non-woven fabrics, and people who use more wet wipes should be familiar with it. However, it is difficult to realize this kind of embossing because of the fiber relationship in the previous cotton non-woven fabrics. The hand feel is average, and the water absorption is ok.
9. Ambrose
Number of lucky draws: 20 times
Purchase price: 6 yuan/bag.
Cotton: No.
Thickness: thickness
Water absorption: strong
First of all, Amway also has cotton soft towels made of pure cotton, which can be seen by searching for the American cotton version. The version I bought is not cotton, it is big and thick, and its water absorption is OK. Embossing is similar to Stoke.
10. Kaili
I bought Kelly's cotton soft towel in two packages, but the raw materials are different. The big bag is marked with spunlaced nonwovens, not cotton.
The small bag is made of cotton.
Number of pumps: 80/20 pumps
Purchase price: big bag of 5 yuan/bag, 6 cents each; Small package 3 yuan/bag, each 0. 15 yuan.
Cotton: the big bag is not cotton, but the small bag is cotton.
Thickness: large bag, small bag is thin.
Water absorption: medium
Under the same brand, different packaging and raw materials will be different. There is a big bag of cotton soft towel on the right, which is thicker than cotton, and the small bag on the left is slightly thinner. As can be seen from the figure, cotton towels are more prone to wrinkle, while non-woven fabrics are not easy to wrinkle, which is also determined by the characteristics of cotton. The water absorption is ok.
Fourth, summary.
1. Not recommended.
Although henry morgan and Good Boy's cotton towels are made of cotton, they are too sparse, which affects the user experience. Among non-cotton pure cotton soft towels, Stoke's is not marked with the national standard, which can be defaulted as not meeting the national standard and is not recommended.
2. Economical and efficient models
Vida's cotton soft towel is a good choice with good thickness and high water absorption and high cost performance. It is recommended.
3. Others
Among pure cotton soft towels, pure cotton secret and babycare soft towels have no obvious shortcomings, but their prices are relatively expensive. Curious cotton towels are cheap when they are on sale, but they are very thin. If it is acceptable, you can consider starting with it. Although Songda's soft cotton towel is not cotton, it is also natural bamboo fiber, which feels good and has strong comprehensive ability, but the genuine product is a little more expensive. If there is a discount, you can start.
4. Preventive measures
In particular, some brands are mixed, such as Amway and Carrier. Their pure cotton soft towels are more expensive than non-pure cotton ones, so pay attention when buying them. To distinguish cotton from non-cotton, we can look at its technology. If embossing is complicated, it is probably not cotton.