Why are Diapers White?

Does anyone have an explination?

Maybe because the plastic's needed to make the diaper outer covering are cheaper white? I really don't have any real idea.

They are what they are... and what they are is AWESOME! So why question the color?

In other words... I have no clue...

A.A.

Probably because white resembles clean and is the most neutral color? On old cloth diapers, i guess it just shows more easily on a white diaper.

What other color would they be? Most big boy under pants and big girl panties are white. Other that that I am not sure!

Just A guess to keep down on heat so when you wear the diaper you fell better

But white diapers are so hot ???

But can you imagine a black diaper? That would be brutal...

The reasonn most diapers are white is because its a cheaper color to make then other colors. colors take alot to make so white is the easiest of all colors to do. And i think white shows the nice golden color of a peepee diaper rather well dont you LOL?

Yea that was my original guess, it only makes sense that the plastics used are cheaper white as opposed to died other colours, as to whether they come white or not I don't know, though I imagine not.

It's true that most cloth diapers are white,

Some brands of disposables are "color coded" to indicate the absorbancy. For example a green outer cover may be used on a diaper that's more absorbant than a blue one.

Some brands also use different colors for different sizes.

Someone would have to go back into the very beginning of cloth diaper time and figure out who began making cloth diapers and why did they choose white material. probably so it would look clean and when some activity happened it would immediately show via color change a change is needed. other than that have not a clue.

I think the forum need to commission an diaper archeologist 😉

White is a passive color and it more resembles the color of normal panties or underwear. thus it is not as noticable for those who are embarrassed to wear them...at least thats what i think

I remember way back when Depends switched from that green color to white, they advertised a "more underwear like color". So my guess is that they make them white for the reason of more closely resembling regular underwear, as some have already mentioned.

Iowaincon

So parents can tell when the kid wet them?

I think that the white color is that the diaper manufactor is trying to make the diaper look more like underwear so that If a person sees the diaper without looking twice they would think that they are regular underwear But personal experiance for me is that don;t work they still notice that they are a diaper

Some of the answers are right on here, as far as I know.

I would say, it goes back to when cloth diapers where made from the most common cloth, and the cheapest, which would be white cotton. Later when diapers were more mass produced, the same still held true, white cotton was cheap to produce and plentiful. White also was easier to see when the soil was washed out, and when they were white, they were clean! I guess along the years a white diaper has become standard, till only recently color dyes have become cheap to use. When disposables came along, it would only be sensable to follow suit and make a white diaper. Again, white paper and plastic is cheaper to produce. So ,white for the most part, is the color of choice for a diaper.

White means clean

White shows the pee / pooh even no wet indicator

White match all colours (easy to match the short skirt 😁)

I hope there is pastel color, blue, green, pink, yellow, apple green, ...

10 colors in a pack is great 😁

I got one more reason: see clearly

Since the color of pee and poop show our health conditions, white diaper will not affect the color we are looking at.

Because it's cheap and because you can see pretty clearly when they've been used.

Disposables are probably white (well some aren't but most are) because cloth ones were white. And cloth diapers were probably white for the various reasons mentioned, below.

I just know that I love having them be white so I can see what a naughty diapered baby I am after I've rendered them to not be so white anymore. And I also love white cotton panties for the same reason--it's fun to see if my wife was a good / bad girl each day.

They aren't just white anymore: https://www.saveexpress.de/de/inkontinenz-einweg/windeln-pants-diapers/mydiaper/8791/mydiaper-black-windel-nacht-gr.m-schwarz-einzelstueck?c=2498

Most diapers are white because that's a colour that dose not hide the fact you wet them or worse, in the early 1980's when I was born all disposable diapers for babies and adults were basically white although pampers and Huggies tried experiments in the late 1980's through the 1990's with other colors with mixed results and sometimes horrible results, remember the pinstripe ones or the magic blocks that disappeared when wet.

I miss the old style disposable diapers because they were so much more comfortable than the newer ones and they were all plastic Backed and didn't leak or rip open so much.

Nowerdays you can buy or easily find diapers for babies and adults that come in verious colours including day glow orange, although that being said I still prefer the all white ones.

hope this awnsers your questions

Yours sincerly

Chinababy888.

My guess is that white is cheap and white can be bleached.

My guess is that white is cheap and white can be bleached.

THAT IS THE REASON.

Starting out selling a new diaper while white doesn't seem to have much utility other than an illusion of cleanliness or sterility. BleachABILITY however, would seem to be (the) key, but I wonder if the original and current cloth diaper manufacturers ever tried saving money by initially not bleaching the product but designing it so it would stand up to repeated bleaching. Just a thought. My sons are almost grown now, but we didn't need to bleach as we never used cloth diapers.

Eric

I would venture to guess so cleanliness could be visually be verified.

Also, urine has a yellowish tinge a d fecal matter is one of a varying shade of earth tones. So the color would indicate need for a changing.

And after use, the cleaning agents, detergent, and sterilants, bleach and hydrogen peroxide, are oxidizing agents that remove dyed color from natural fibers. From olden times, diapers wear white. Moderm manufacturers have carried that forward.

If you desire to change the color of your diapers, get colored plastic pants

I would guess for same reason toilet paper is white, it's cheaper undyed and it's easier to see when something's not as good as it could be.

I can't explain why they're white, but the fact that they're white does make them easier to check.