What would parents do without the convenience of baby wipes, really? It has to be one of the most thoughtful inventions that take the edge of diaper changing clean-ups and other messes little ones make throughout the day!
However, it’s interesting to note that these indispensable wipes have a rather interesting story behind them for their first emerged in the scene during the ’50s as a society back then started to see a need for better ways to clean up while on the go. It wasn’t all that easy or convenient for them just yet though for they had the idea of it but the convenience factor wasn’t quite there yet, with basically pre-moistened sheets of cloths folded and placed in containers to be used when needed.
In 1957, a man named Arthur Julius spent $5,000 to acquire and adapt a machine that had been designed to portion soups, placing it in a loft in Manhattan. A year later, he had trademarked the name Wet-Nap. While the Wet-Nap seems like an inevitable innovation to the restaurant table-scape, Julius’ inspiration came from the boudoir, not from the kitchen. It was in his work in the cosmetics industry that Julius came across what was the very first pre-moistened wipe. The wipe was considered a “real opportunity” in the world of cosmetics — and for hygiene more generally. But ultimately, the wet wipe did more, changing the course of his business forever.
The now commonly referred-to “Baby wipes” however didn’t hit store shelves until the early-90’s and were produced by Kimberly-Clark and Procter & Gamble, the big fish in the industry. With Baby Wipes on every grocery and pharmacy shelf, uses evolved beyond babies and their bottoms to a market now where there seems to be a wipe for every body part and every surface you can think of. When they were first produced though, you could still smell the alcohol content on these wipes. Today, however, baby wipes have come a long way, evolving into safe, gentle, mostly alcohol-free wipes that make clean-ups a convenient, quick, and worry-free task.
Various packaging
Modern baby wipes come in all sorts of packaging these days — from the famous pop-up packs, to canisters to pouches. These in turn can be bought in various sizes too, depending on your usage and storage plans.
