Bloom Diaper Pants, Fragrance-Free

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A pull-up nappy for a baby who has started rolling, sitting and standing, which is the point at which lying still for a taped change stops being available. The absorbent system is the same one as the taped nappy: same totally chlorine free pulp, same super absorbent polymer, same bare top sheet, same breathable back sheet. What differs is the chassis, a waistband that stretches the whole way round and side seams that tear cleanly so a soiled pant comes off without going down the legs. Nothing else about it is different, and a page that dressed those two changes up as a better nappy would be selling you the packaging. Size is a weight band. New born up to 5 kg, Small 4 to 8, Medium 7 to 12, Large 9 to 14, Extra large 12 to 17. The letters mean nothing across brands. One honest note on the smallest one: a newborn does not need a pant. It cannot stand, it will lie down for a change, and the taped nappy is the right shape for those months and has the cord stump notch that this one does not. New born pants exist for a small number of parents who prefer them and we make the size, but if you are choosing for a two-week-old, choose the taped. Absorbency is measured, not asserted. The fifty-times-its-weight figure that circulates is SAP against distilled water, and urine is saline. In 0.9 percent saline SAP takes up about 26 g per gram and fluff pulp about 8 g, so Medium at 8.6 g of SAP and 12.0 g of pulp computes to 320 g and measures 320 g on the whole product to IS 17509. New born 195, Small 250, Medium 320, Large 389, Extra large 461. Slightly under the taped nappy at every size, because a stretch waistband takes space the core would otherwise have. Disposal, plainly. Not compostable, not flushable, not biodegradable. Roughly 58 percent of a pant by mass is polymer, counting the super absorbent gel, which is what does the absorbing. Wrap it in the paper wrapper the pack supplies and put it in dry waste. We do not sell a cloth nappy, so there is no low-waste sibling to send you to here.

• Sizes by weight band, with pack counts: New born up to 5 kg, 60 pants. Small 4 to 8 kg, 56. Medium 7 to 12 kg, 48. Large 9 to 14 kg, 42. Extra large 12 to 17 kg, 36
• Absorption capacity to IS 17509, in grams of 0.9 percent saline on the whole product: New born 195, Small 250, Medium 320, Large 389, Extra large 461
• SAP mass per pant: 5.2, 6.7, 8.6, 10.5 and 12.5 g by size. Fluff pulp 7.5, 9.5, 12.0, 14.5 and 17.0 g
• Rewet under load below 0.3 g after three insults, rate of absorption under 5 seconds on the first, pH of the aqueous extract 6.5, all to IS 17509
• No chlorine bleaching. Totally chlorine free pulp, oxygen and peroxide bleached, with AOX and with dioxins and furans by ISO 18073 below the limit of quantification per lot
• No lotion on the top sheet. The petrolatum or aloe coating common in this category is a leave-on cosmetic worn on the nappy area for twelve hours at a time and is almost never named on a pack. There is none here
• No fragrance, no masking agent, no natural rubber latex. Elastics are polyurethane elastane sheathed in polypropylene
• Phthalates by GC-MS, six esters, none detected. Formaldehyde on the top sheet below the limit of quantification by ISO 14184-1. No optical brightener, checked under UV
• Biocompatibility to IS 17509: cytotoxicity ISO 10993-5, skin irritation ISO 10993-23, skin sensitisation ISO 10993-10, on the finished pant. Bioburden within the standard limits
• Back sheet named: microporous polyethylene film, calcium-carbonate filled and stretched to open the pores, laminated to a polypropylene spunbond. Moisture vapour transmission 3,000 g per square metre per 24 hours by ASTM E96, which is what breathable means here
• Sold under the ISI mark because IS 17509 is under a Quality Control Order and a nappy cannot legally be sold in India without a BIS licence. That is compliance, not an achievement, and the licence number is on the pack
• Cost per pant: Rs 12.48 New born, Rs 13.38 Small, Rs 16.65 Medium, Rs 19.02 Large, Rs 23.58 Extra large. A pant costs more than the equivalent taped nappy at every size, and the extra is the stretch waistband
• Honest trade-off one: capacity is not permission. A 15 kg toddler passes roughly 270 ml over twelve hours against 461 g of capacity, so the pant can hold a night. Skin is the reason to change anyway, every 3 to 4 hours in the day and as soon as it is soiled
• Honest trade-off two: a pant cannot be re-fastened. Open the side seams to check and you have used one. The taped nappy is the cheaper choice for a baby whose nappies get checked more often than they get changed
• Honest trade-off three: it is a single-use plastic-containing article and about 58 percent of it by mass is polymer. Dry waste, in the paper wrapper the Solid Waste Management Rules 2016 require the maker to supply. Never flush it