While in my local whole foods market yesterday afternoon for my usual weekly purchase of organic pet food, I took the time to browse the shelves nearby. The bright green color of a package of Seventh Generation Bath Tissue caught my eye, and I stopped to examine the product. Another customer noticed me, and proceeded to rave about how much her family likes this tissue, and how glad she was that she made the switch from “regular” bath tissue. I’ve always been doubtful about buying a tissue made from recycled paper, but I learned quite a bit about it from this lady, and I’d like to share it with you in this article.
It’s quite common for household to recycle aluminum cans, glass, and plastic, but in my opinion, recycling paper products does even more to help out environment. It saves our country’s landfill space, which is growing scarcer with each passing year. Everyone knows that when you recycle paper, you save trees, but have you ever had the opportunity to visit a paper mill where these trees are made into paper? It takes quite a bit of water and energy to make that wood into paper, so these two valuable resources are also conserved when choosing to use recycled paper.
Did you know that the bright white bath tissue you buy in your neighborhood grocery store is whitened with chlorine bleach? When you bleach paper with chlorine, toxins are created, and over time, these toxins can accumulate in the bodies of both people and animals. One of them, called dioxin, can lead to cancer and reproductive problems in humans. I don’t like the idea of using a product with any sort of chemical, let alone toxins, in such a delicate area of the body. Seventh Generation uses safe, non-toxic bleach created from salt and oxygen to make their tissue white.
That lovely soft tissue in your bathroom was made soft by the use of fabric softeners, yet another chemical attack on a vulnerable area. Seventh Generation’s tissue is quite soft naturally. It is also surprisingly strong and absorbent paper. Some tissues almost seem to dissolve when wet – not this one. Yet it flushes easily, and is also safe for septic systems. I have noticed that when a bath tissue is too soft, it tends to easily clog up my toilet. I don’t anticipate this problem with Seventh Generation. The tissue sort of reminds me of the tissues commonly used when I was a child. Since it seems everything else has been reformulated over time, I’m sure bath tissues have, too. The companies who make them of course would like to see consumers use more of the product than needed, as the more they sell, the more their profit. It doesn’t seem to take as much of Seventh Generation to “get the job done”, and over time, this can be quite a savings. You can feel good about the fact that you are saving money while helping the environment and safeguarding your family’s health.
I highly recommend this product to anyone who would like to get back to basics. Who needs tissue with added scent, inks or dyes? Once you try a 12 roll package of Seventh Generation Bath Tissue, you’ll be sold on the big 2 ply, 400 sheets per roll simplicity.
