How a grown, childless woman became a baby-wipe crusader
Written: Jul 21 '00
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Pros: Soft 'n' juicy anywhere you use it
Cons: Too rich for babies' pocketbooks
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| cwainwright's Full Review: Huggies Supreme Care Baby Wipes |
For those of you who don’t listen to The Howard Stern Show, Jessica Hahn, in one of the overly informative segments that the show is famous for, admitted to extensive baby wipe use in her own (a-hem) Southern Hemisphere.
Like Ms. Hahn, I am well past my majority and 100% baby-free. Unlike Ms. Hahn, my baby-wipe advocacy—and Huggies Supreme Care endorsement—stems from two (generally) G-rated pursuits: thrift-shopping and acting.
Second-hand stores are notoriously filthy places, filled as they are with the moldering cast-offs of others. (Theaters are pretty filthy, too, but we’ll get to that later.)
Thanks to the aggressive sampling tactics of Procter & Gamble et al, I’d tried numerous hand-sanitizers, but frankly, they all left me with that not-so-fresh feeling. I guess I’m a Missourian when it comes to dirt removal—you have to show me it’s gone.
Commodity wipes—those store-brand jobs that are cheap cheap cheap—were fine for rag-picking. True—they reeked of low-end baby lotion (scented) or fresh Hefty® bags (unscented), but as a stop-gap measure, they sufficed.
Then I did a two-month run of a play called The Berlin Circle where, over the course of 90 minutes and under cover of backstage night I had to go from a fully-made up Madonna-wannabe to a fully-unmade-up, uni-browed German cook to a drunken wedding guest with fully-melted makeup to a shell-shocked East Berliner in full clown-white makeup.
I tried every—and I mean every brand of baby wipe I could get my hands on. My poor skin, barely recovered from last summer’s weekly application of latex, greasepaint & glue (the Witch I played in this particular version of Rapunzel wore full-bore Maleficent makeup and a bald cap), rebelled at every turn.
Let me just say that never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d be getting on a soapbox about Huggies Supreme-Care Baby Wipes, but here I am, the worst kind of convert.
They are soft and fluffy, oh-so-moist, and come in a sturdy container that keeps them that way from week to week. One dainty, quilted wipe took off most of my considerable make-up for each change, although a dollop of Albolene helped immensely with that stubborn clown-white greasepaint at the end of the evening. My skin was never dry or irritated after a show, and the unscented variety never left me smelling like perfumed baby butt or plastic.
The downside is that Huggies Supreme-Care Baby Wipes are the Cadillac of baby wipes and luxury don’t come cheap. I suggest scouring the Sunday circulars for loss-leader deals at Target, Wal-Mart and the like, and couponing on top of that.
Perhaps this is too lengthy a report for so trivial a topic. But I feel it’s deserved. Because from one grown, childless woman to—well, any and all interested parties—this is the best baby wipe, hands (and cheeks) down.
Recommended:
Yes
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Member: Colleen Wainwright
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