Hi All,
Just a quick post to let you all know how Real Nappies has been doing over the last 12 months or so.
The US is proving to be an amazing place for our humble cloth diaper! We are growing by the month. Each month over the last 12 has been better than the last.
You guys are awesome when it comes to your choice of diaper. Well, we think so anyway!
Please check out our latest review.
Take care and happy diapering!
AND THE WINNERS ARE…..
Real Nappies has won GOLD in the “Best cloth nappy brand” section of the OHbaby Magazine awards.
OHbaby is the largest and most popular baby magazine in NZ, over 5,000 voters cast over 177,000 votes for their favourite products from botty-balm to baby carriers and even the best family car.
OHbaby! publisher Angela Pedersen says
“With such a vast array of products available, it can be overwhelming for new parents to know what to buy when they’re preparing for the arrival of a baby. Our intention with the OHbaby! awards is to create a list of proven products and services as recommended by other New Zealand mums and dads, giving new parents confidence that they’re buying well”
Over 5,000 voters cast over 177,00 votes for their favourite products – from botty-balm, to baby-carriers and even the best family car. Angela says
“such a big voting turnout gives real credibility to these awards. Our winners should rightly be very proud of their win and shout it from the rooftops. What the results show us is that parents are discerning consumers. These aren’t necessarily the cheapest products on the market, but they represent quality and good value for money.“
There were 52 Gold Winners and 52 Silver Winners from each of the eight categories – Out & About, Play, Feed, Sleep, Babycare, Home, Shop and Maternity. Over the coming weeks expect to see the OHbaby! winners logo appear on their packaging and advertising material as the winners promote their award.
Real Nappies‘ Director, Liz Mole says:
“We are absolutely thrilled with the result, we have been claiming to be New Zealand #1 Cloth Diaper for years so it was fantastic to finally be able to prove it be voted Gold Award winners. Real Nappies Cloth Diapers are such a simple, easy system to use, they make using cloth diapers accessible to everyone – thank you New Zealand for voting Real Nappies #1 Cloth Diaper.”
Real Nappies cloth diapers are a 2-part diaper system made up of a strong, waterproof diaper cover, and a 100% natural cotton diaper. An optional flushable diaper liner to flush away the solids makes clean-up a breeze. Real Nappies cloth diapers are sold individually or in easy to buy packs. Real Nappies, Liz Mole says:
“Our biggest selling product is the Real Nappies Birth To Potty Pack – this takes the guesswork and confusion out of cloth diapers – people grab a pack and know they have all the cloth diapers they need from birth to potty! It’s excellent value and Real Nappies are the only cloth diaper company to guarantee their diapers to last through 2 children! We are sure all this helped towards us claiming GOLD in the awards.”
Competition was fierce with many other well known cloth diaper brands in the running to the GOLD spot – but with so many loyal supporters of Real Nappies Cloth Diapers they made it happen for us! THANK YOU FRIENDS!
*information on the awards and quotes have been taken from OhBaby Website.
Thank you again for voting for us.
When my wife and I first started using re-usable diapers on our baby we were determined to find out what worked best. We tried all the brands out there – some fastened using pins, some using poppers and others used Velcro.
We’d already made our minds up that we wanted to use cotton, as this is the friendliest fabric next to your baby’s skin. So now we only had to decide on what we would use to hold this cotton nappy in place.
We found the material that we wanted to use for the cover – PUL which is waterproof and breathable but we were unsure of how to fasten this cover together.
The pins seemed too risky, didn’t want to puncture any precious skin! The poppers were too fiddley – when a wriggling baby is in front of you, you just need something that sticks quickly.
We came to the conclusion Velcro worked the best – it was easy to stick and unstuck, but stayed stuck when needed. This is one of the reasons we chose Real Nappies. So now we had the best material next to our baby’s skin and a very convenient cover to hold that diaper in place.
It was great to see a CNET’s, Natali Morris, try only cloth diapers for a month and love them! Yay!
This was someone who has a busy schedule and is certainly not a mom that is tied to the washing machine washing diapers. She’s a perfect candidate for disposable diapers, but she gave cloth a go and was pleasantly surprised at just how easy she found them.
What were her findings?
Link through here and watch Natali’s experiences with cloth diapers.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7131550n
So which diapers are Real Nappies?
Real Nappies cloth diapers are a wrap and prefold system similar to the first diaper shown on CNET. They have a 100% cotton diaper, which is separate to the cover. This makes life SOOOOO much easier, as come diaper change time you simply take out the wet diaper and pop in a dry one.
You keep the same diaper cover on bubs until it gets wet or smelly!
This means less washing, less drying and less cost!
Help I’m so confused!
Natali mentioned that the cloth diaper choices available to new parents are so overwhelming, that many parents just don’t even go there. I understand that and can totally relate to it! I know pretty much every cloth diaper out there and when I go online I still get totally confused, Arrrggghhh!
Our solution?
Well this is where the Real Nappies Birth to Potty Pack really comes into it’s own, no more confusing questions like:
What do I need? How many cloth diapers shall I buy? Which is the best system for me?
Our Birth to Potty Pack is your one-stop solution in a box – everything you will ever need to diaper your baby from Birth up until Potty Trained, all in one box!
How do you know it’s the best system for you?
Put simply, because you, the customer tell us we are the best! You love our customer service, the quality of our products, the price, the simplicity and that Real Nappies actually work!
PLUS, We are a New Zealand company and are:
By the way did I also mention we are the ONLY cloth diaper company that gives a 2-child guarantee on our diapers?? We must truly trust in the quality of our products to do that!
Need I say more? Check us out and discover why Real Nappies cloth diapers will soon become your favourite cloth diaper too.
I’m very pleased my wife and I started Real Nappies – it was a struggle at first, like I’m sure most businesses find and there was the odd time when we wondered if we’d done the right thing. Seven years later we know we did and now sometimes I get so passionate about this diaper business I sometimes think I’m on a mission.
From time to time I get a bit carried away with myself and start thinking what a huge difference that could be made if everyone on the planet started using cloth instead of disposables. A family using disposables would have to put out an extra couple of sacks of garbage out each week full of diapers, more if they had 2 children. Multiply this by the amount of households in the U.S. or even the world and you have a staggering amount of waste that’s increasing in size all the time going to landfill that will sit there for hundreds of years!
So how do we get everyone on the planet using cloth diapers? This is the mission, we have chosen to accept it! Is it daa daa da da, daa daa da da MISSION IMPOSSIBLE?
Well to do this we would have to go up against the enormous multinational companies who manufacture disposables and also at the same time convince all the people of this world to use cloth. Perhaps this is mission impossible but we are trying, and I don’t think it does any harm to think BIG!
So yes, I guess we are on a mission – but one we have to be patient with.
Not wanting to boast but we get ALOT of customer feedback – and most of it is good, we’re pleased to say. Yet there seems to be 4 main reasons that once you are a customer of Real Nappies you don’t leave (don’t worry it’s not because we tie you to our diapers)! Well Why Then?
Well it’s simple really:
1. Second to none Customer Service. Our Customer Service Team are AWESOME! They truly are amazing. Best of all they believe in the product. All the people on our team use Real Nappies cloth diapers, whether on their own kids, friend’s kids or their grandchildren. So yes, we know what we are talking about when you ask us a question, and yes, we do use them ourselves!
2. 2-Child Guarantee. That’s right we guarantee our products through 2 of your children*. So if your Velcro no longer sticks, or your stitching on your diaper cover is coming undone, we replace it (Terms and Conditions do apply). Do you know of any other reusable diaper that offers this fantastic guarantee?
3. Real Nappies Work. Well put simply, Real Nappies do what they say they do! Real Nappies Cloth Diapers do not leak when used properly, Real Nappies prevent diaper rash, save the environment and save you a whole heap of money to boot: so why wouldn’t you use them and stick with them?
3. Excellent Quality. Well for starters there is no way we could offer such a fantastic 2-child guarantee if our products weren’t top notch quality. We have scouered the globe for the best quality products we can buy. Our cotton cloth diapers have the ‘Okeo-tex certification’ and are made of the best Indian Cotton money can buy, our diaper wraps and cotton cloth diapers are used in Day Care Centers and Hospitals in New Zealand, and our flushable, biodegradable diaper bioliners are sold by the truck load to customers around the globe. We’ve been in the cloth diaper market for over 7 years now and we pass on these years of experience to you, we’ve saved you the hassle of searching for the best cloth diaper system on the market:
Congratulations: you’ve found them…. Welcome to REAL NAPPIES.
Struggling with what to get the mom to be at her Baby Shower? Can’t stand giving another baby suit, diaper bag or yet more toys that bubs will probably never even get a chance to play with? Want an original gift idea?
Real Nappies cloth diapers are the perfect solution.
What says ‘you care’ more than to give reusable, natural, 100% cotton cloth diapers.
Mom to be will certainly thank you for it for years to come and here’s why: (more…)
Modern Cloth Diapers work really well and if yours don’t there are usually a few simple steps that you can follow and have your wonderful cloth diapers working for you in no time. Believe me you will never look back…
1. Washing.
Make sure you have followed the instructions and washed your diapers the correct amount of times before using them. This may seem like a laborious task but it is a very necessary one. It’s a little like using a towel before it has been washed – not very soft and absorbent. Real Nappies use cotton diapers and we suggest washing them 3 times before use (no need to dry them in-between washes).
Your cotton prefolds will shrink and fluff up and become super absorbent. Other fabrics such as hemp or bamboo (more…)
Hey, don’t you think the designs on the new Huggies Jeans Diaper are cool (and don’t get me wrong they are cool)! They will certainly look amazing in your trash can, and will look great in the landfill in 75 – 500 years time. I hope its worth the extra $6! But seriously I don’t get it, what is the point in a fancy looking throwaway diaper?
Now great looking Cloth Diapers I do understand, and of course we especially love Real Nappies Diaper Covers, they come in amazing, bright and vibrant colours – (more…)
We’ve had such high demand for the Birth to Potty packs we sold them all before we could get more from New Zealand! It’s such great value cloth diapering, and our two child guarantee ensures you’ll save thousands over disposable diapers.
Check out the Birth to Potty cloth diaper pack for more information. if you have any questions, just contact us.
We make simple high-quality cloth diapers at a great price, and we guarantee they'll last for two children!
