When I saw the sale on Zulily* a few weeks ago to try the products for half of the price, I took them up on their offer to try one month of The Honest Co. diapers, wipes as well as baby products. I received two coupon codes, set up my account, gave them my credit info and selected which diapers I would be needing. They auto subscribe you to their services, so if you don't want to be charged the full price the next month, you have to call and cancel your subscription once your items have shipped. Within a week all items were on my doorstep.
Right off the bat, the packaging is greatness. Vibrant, modern and not your typical baby prints. Love that.
As for the products, here's my review:
So far, the wipes are not my favorite. I think that they don't quite do the cleaning job like my Pampers sensitive and, seeing as they arrived in the midst of HUT's first major diaper rash, they seemed a little harsh on his sensitive tush. I also had to use about twice the amount of the Pampers wipes to get him nice and clean, which isn't very effective.
The bath products, however, I'm loving. The scents are great (although the vanilla of the baby wash is a bit strong, but I'm not a big vanilla person in the first place), the detergent is great, they all come in more than reasonable sizes and you get to pick and choose which items you want for the upcoming month (i.e. detergent, lotions, sunscreen, sanitizers, household cleaner, etc.).
I haven't tried the diapers yet, but they come in these insanely cute little designs. The designs, however, are not enough to get me to pay for them monthly. Without my nifty little coupon, a month's supply of diapers and wipes will cost you $80. I did the math and I buy a large box of Pampers on Amazon Mom (using Subscribe and Save) that costs me $33 for 196 diapers. This tends to last us about 4-6 weeks. Wipes I purchase the same way and spend about $21 on a four pack of 192 wipes that last us at least a couple of months - probably more. All in all, I just cannot justify the expense, even if the products are more natural, because we know what works on our baby, and on our budget.
So, overall, I think that we're going to do a few more months of the baby products, but nix the diapers/wipes. I went ahead and cancelled everything right off of the bat so I wouldn't forget to, but I'm planning on re-subscribing for the bath products.
Has anyone else tried out The Honest Co. yet?
*Just to clarify, I didn't receive anything for this review. I love to try new products and have no problem reviewing my thoughts on products on this blog, but this one was all me. I bought it. I tried it. I reviewed it.
I'm glad you did a review of this stuff. I was wondering how it stood up to other products. :)
ReplyCan I ask you a question about amazon mom? Our diapers last about 4-6 weeks too, but they've changed their system.I used to have it set that we got diapers once a month, however you can no longer skip a shipment and then do the "send an extra shipment now"
If I do it every month, I'll have a major back up. But every other month wouldn't be enough!
How often do you have your diapers sent? What's your system?
- I noticed all of the changes with Amazon Mom recently as well. I'm not sure how I'm going to handle it because now that I have these diapers I have a plethora of size 3s and don't anticipate needing my monthly shipment anytime soon. I'm also worried about how the pricing might change once I switch diapers in the future because of all of their new discount changes.
ReplyHonestly, I'm probably going to have to recalculate soon to figure out if Amazon Mom is still the better price because the Target brand diapers work just as well and might be a better deal!
Oh! I'll have to check out the Target brand diapers, I've never tried them. Thanks for the tip. I'm mildly obsessed with Amazon and my prime account, but I'm sad about their changes to subscribe and save. :(
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