Welcome to the first annual Fluff Love Awards!
One year ago, a group of moms with a cloth diaper obsession started a Facebook group. It was small, it was quick, and it didn’t even spell out “cloth diaper” in the name – but boy, did it grow! Since its inception on July 4th, 2014, Fluff Love & CD Science has grown to over 57,000 members, a groundbreaking website, and much more that I can’t quite announce just yet!
With our first year behind us, Fluff Love feels it’s time to honor those who brought us to where we are today – the cloth diapers themselves. So, without further ado, I present to you the 2015 Fluff Love Awards!
And the categories are…
Over the course of the next week, we will be announcing the winning brands from a series of surveys we conducted back in May. With over 7,000 responses, our survey data provided an accurate snapshot of the Fluff Love Community. Brands were broken down into the following categories:
- Pockets
- Covers
- Flats
- Prefolds
- AI2
- Fitteds
- AIO
- Customer Service Star
Within each category, we have winners for Overall Best, Honorable Mention, Most Popular, Hidden Gem, and Best Value. Additionally, we have also given awards to Green Detergents, Mainstream Detergents (including free and clear varieties), and a special category of Fluff Love Favorites, including favorite brands, admin favorite prints and colors, and some other fun stuff 🙂
In May and June, more than 7,000 Fluff Love members responded to 9 surveys and rated more than 100 types of cloth diapers. These responses were used to select winners for the Fluff Love awards. For each style of diaper (AIO, AI2, pocket, fitted, flats, prefolds, and covers) we gave the following awards:
Overall winner: In this category, we wanted to balance both popularity and top reviews. For each style, we calculated the median number of responses per brand. The overall winner was the brand with the highest overall satisfaction rating that received at least the median number of responses.
Hidden Gem: This award was given to a highly rated but less popular diaper. The diaper with a lower than median number of total responses and the highest overall satisfaction rating was named hidden gem.
Honorable mention: Any diaper with more than 15 responses was eligible to receive this award. Honorable mentions went to two or three brands with very high overall satisfaction ratings.
Most popular: Regardless of overall satisfaction ratings, the diaper with the most responses in each category was named most popular.
Best budget option: This was given to a lower priced diaper with a high overall satisfaction rating.
The surveys were conducted using a professional version of Survey Monkey and data were analyzed in Microsoft Excel. Various quality checks were performed on the data to ensure accuracy.
We will be presenting the awards throughout the week, starting tomorrow! Stay tuned!