Seventh Generation
I have a long history with toilet paper. We go waaaayyy back. One of our fond family memories is the toilet paper we would have to use in England, specifically London everywhere but in the family loos (bathrooms, English style). It had the consistency of wax paper. That paper you have to use to pick out a doughnut at the grocer's? That was used as toilet paper in London.
We all love our quilty, teddy bear soft toilet paper. Of course we do! We don't need exfoliation, for crying out loud! We need gentle and delicate for our sensitive little or not so little bottoms.
But I have been making a serious effort to move away from the more brutal cleansers with their bleach and toxins and move towards kinder, gentler but just as effective alternatives. My bud, Lori, got me some hand soap/lotion labeled Method. It's an alternative line of personal and household products. Seeing the effectiveness of this product I went and got fabric softener and other items. Very good.
Then I started looking down the paper products aisle. There they were. The pillowy, cushy, billowing paper that has always occupied my restrooms. I stopped at Seventh Generation. No bears. No cartoon characters diligently sewing their way to softness. Just generic packaging. I picked up the package.
This is what it says:
If every household in the US replaced just one 12-pack of 400 sheet virgin fiber bathroom tissue with 100% recycled ones we could save:
I have a long history with toilet paper. We go waaaayyy back. One of our fond family memories is the toilet paper we would have to use in England, specifically London everywhere but in the family loos (bathrooms, English style). It had the consistency of wax paper. That paper you have to use to pick out a doughnut at the grocer's? That was used as toilet paper in London.
We all love our quilty, teddy bear soft toilet paper. Of course we do! We don't need exfoliation, for crying out loud! We need gentle and delicate for our sensitive little or not so little bottoms.
But I have been making a serious effort to move away from the more brutal cleansers with their bleach and toxins and move towards kinder, gentler but just as effective alternatives. My bud, Lori, got me some hand soap/lotion labeled Method. It's an alternative line of personal and household products. Seeing the effectiveness of this product I went and got fabric softener and other items. Very good.
Then I started looking down the paper products aisle. There they were. The pillowy, cushy, billowing paper that has always occupied my restrooms. I stopped at Seventh Generation. No bears. No cartoon characters diligently sewing their way to softness. Just generic packaging. I picked up the package.
This is what it says:
If every household in the US replaced just one 12-pack of 400 sheet virgin fiber bathroom tissue with 100% recycled ones we could save:
- 4.4 million trees
- 11.6 million cubic feet of landfill space equal to over 17,000 full garbage trucks
- 1.6 billion gallons of water, a year's supply for over 12,700 families of four
- and avoid 275,000 pounds of pollution
Seventh Generation is 100% recycled paper, 80% post-consumer, and 20% pre-consumer. It is freee of dyes, inks and fragrances. It is whitened with sodium hydrosulfite, a non-toxic biodegradable bleach from salt and oxygen, not chlorine.
So I tried it. It is fine. No, it's not downy or luxurious, but it sure as heck isn't anything like the bakery sheets either. It is a soft, no-nonsense tisse that keeps us from tearing down more trees. This is what we will be using from now on. We are also using their dishwashing soap/powder, and bathroom cleaner, which are very effective.
Consider this product. We don't need to cut anymore trees down to wipe our collective asses.
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