Comments on: Seventh Generation Paper Towels, Natural, 2-Ply Sheets

By: Carol

Carol — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:13:57 +0000

I tried both the bleached white and the brown natural versions of these towels and I BY FAR prefer the white; not because of the color, but because you get more for your money.

The white towels are not as soft feeling as your grocery store preferred brands. They actually feel rather rough; but they are quite strong and lint free. Both versions are the same size towel, about 1/3rd smaller than your standard papertowel. The brown version feels much thinner and is not nearly as strong. I can’t even dry my hands with one towel, they rip to pieces. On both, the perforations are not cut very well and it’s nearly impossible to tear off a single sheet, especially the white. I can use the white towel and hang it on my kitchen faucet to dry and use it again; not so with the brown version. The brown towels are in pieces after drying one coffee cup.

I wish they would tear off the roll easier but I’d buy the white towel again, but I wouldn’t buy the brown natural towel.
Rating: 2 / 5

By: Mel S. Stark

Mel S. Stark — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:41:01 +0000

It may take 2 sheets to blot up as much liquid as Bounty, but it takes zero trees. It creates a market for waste paper which otherwise would be thrown in the garbage. It also saves a ton of water and creates no dioxins like chlorine bleached paper towels do. And dioxins are among the deadliest poisons on the planet. If you care about your children this stuff is a no-brainer. Everytime you purchase it, we all win.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: J. Kingsland

J. Kingsland — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:43:23 +0000

These are good paper towels, good absorbency and stand up relatively well when wet.
Rating: 4 / 5

By: A. Thomas

A. Thomas — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:36:03 +0000

You might be comparing these brown paper towels with the 30 rolls of Seventh Generation, white paper towels also sold on Amazon wondering which is cheaper. Note that these are 120 sheets per roll. The white ones are 70 sheets per roll.

White paper towels
$40.99/(30*70) = 1.9 cents per sheet.

Brown paper towels
$54.99/(30*120) = 1.5 cents per sheet.

So the brown ones are cheaper.

(Prices updated 11/13/07) Rating: 5 / 5

By: D. Carraway

D. Carraway — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:19:01 +0000

Quite decent paper towels — not much to say about it. Their absorbency is a little bit less than nonrecycled ones, but not bad, and no further trees had to be cut down for it.

What the product description should say but doesn’t: these are 120-sheet rolls. Each sheet is 11×9″.

Something I didn’t entirely realize before I ordered a box — thirty rolls is a lot of paper towels. Like, oh, twenty pounds of the stuff. So you’re going to have these on hand for a while. You’ll have to bring them along when you move, and they’ll watch the children whose playpens you cleaned up with the first of them leave for college after wiping their car’s dipstick with the last. It’s something of a committment, really.
Rating: 4 / 5