Bloom Nappy Backpack

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A nappy bag shaped as a backpack, which is the only shape that leaves both hands free. Eighteen litres, twelve pockets, and a side pocket you can reach into while the bag is still on your back. The wipe-clean lining is where the cheat lives. A lining that wipes clean is almost always PVC, because PVC is the cheapest way to get a smooth impermeable face, and PVC needs phthalate plasticisers to stay soft. Here it is a polyurethane coating on 210 denier polyester. Polyurethane wipes the same and needs no plasticiser, and the lining and the changing mat are both screened by GC-MS for DEHP, DBP, BBP, DINP, DIDP and DNOP, none detected. The water-repellent finish is the second substitution, and this is one where the replacement is honestly worse at its job. The industry standard is a fluorinated DWR, which sheds water and oil and is a PFAS. This uses a non-fluorinated finish, total fluorine below 50 mg per kg by combustion ion chromatography. It beads water. It does not shed oil, and it will need reproofing sooner than a fluorinated coat would. That is the trade, stated in the direction that costs us something. On capacity: eighteen litres is measured, by filling the closed main compartment with 20 mm balls up to the zip line. Bag makers routinely multiply the outside dimensions together instead, which overstates a soft bag by thirty to forty percent, and it is why so many bags feel smaller than the number on the tag. One claim on this page is not a test result and we would rather flag it than let it sit among the ones that are. Recycled polyester is a chain-of-custody claim. It travels on the mill's paperwork and no laboratory can look at the finished cloth and confirm it. Everything else here was measured.

• Outer 600 denier recycled polyester canvas at 300 GSM, with a non-fluorinated water-repellent finish
• Total fluorine below 50 mg per kg by combustion ion chromatography, which is the screen for PFAS
• Lining 210 denier polyester with a polyurethane coating. No PVC anywhere in the bag
• Phthalates on the lining and the mat by GC-MS: DEHP, DBP, BBP, DINP, DIDP and DNOP, none detected
• 18 litres, measured with 20 mm fill balls to the zip line, not calculated from the outside dimensions
• 12 pockets: 2 insulated bottle pockets, 1 sealed wet pocket, a back sleeve for the mat, and a fixed front organiser
• Insulated pocket holds a 240 ml bottle within 5 C of its starting temperature for 3 hours in a 30 C room
• Changing mat 60 cm x 38 cm folded, polyurethane-coated polyester over 4 mm foam, and tested to the infant textile limits because a baby lies on it: formaldehyde below 16 mg per kg, azo amines below 20
• Size 8 coil zips, corrosion-resistant, cycled 5,000 times. Padded straps, sternum clip, luggage sleeve
• 760 g empty, so a loaded bag runs around 4 kg and you will be carrying a baby as well
• Honest trade-off, and there is no way round it: a backpack has to come off to get anything out. The two side bottle pockets are the one exception, and they are the reason the bag is shaped this way at all
• Honest trade-off, second: a non-fluorinated finish sheds water and not oil. Dal down the front of it is a wash, not a wipe
• Straps, zip pulls and buckles sold as spares. Three years on stitching, zips and buckles. Wipe the inside, sponge the outside, never machine wash it or the padding flattens for good