Bloom Taped Diapers, Fragrance-Free

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The nappy for the first months, when changes happen on a mat and a taped fit is easier than pulling anything over the legs. New born and Small carry a scooped front notch so nothing presses on the umbilical cord stump while it dries. Size is a weight band, not a letter. Small and Medium mean nothing across two brands, and the fit that matters is the one against the weight: New born up to 5 kg, Small 4 to 8, Medium 7 to 12, Large 9 to 14, Extra large 12 to 17. Where two bands overlap, take the lower one until the tapes stop meeting comfortably. Absorbency is where this category invents figures. Holds fifty times its weight is a super absorbent polymer measured against distilled water, and no nappy ever meets distilled water. Urine is saline, and SAP holds roughly a quarter to a half as much of a 0.9 percent saline solution as it does of pure water. So the number here is grams of 0.9 percent saline, measured on the whole nappy to IS 17509, the Indian Standard for disposable baby diapers, with the SAP mass printed beside it so the arithmetic is visible: SAP takes up about 26 g of saline per gram and fluff pulp about 8 g, so Medium at 9.0 g of SAP and 12.5 g of pulp computes to 334 g, and 334 g is what it measures. New born 207, Small 262, Medium 334, Large 406, Extra large 478. And the disposal position, plainly, because a leaf printed on a nappy pack is the easiest lie in this shop. A disposable nappy is not compostable, not flushable and not biodegradable. A Medium weighs about 30 g dry, of which 12.5 g is wood pulp and about 17 g is polymer of one kind or another, so roughly 58 percent of it is plastic. A child gets through something like five thousand nappies, which is about 150 kg of material. For wipes there is a cloth answer on this same shelf and we point at it. For nappies we do not sell a cloth one, so there is no low-waste option in this box and we are not going to imply there is.

• Sizes by weight band, with pack counts: New born up to 5 kg, 66 nappies, cord notch. Small 4 to 8 kg, 62, cord notch. Medium 7 to 12 kg, 54. Large 9 to 14 kg, 46. Extra large 12 to 17 kg, 40
• Absorption capacity to IS 17509, in grams of 0.9 percent saline on the whole nappy: New born 207, Small 262, Medium 334, Large 406, Extra large 478
• SAP mass per nappy: 5.5, 7.0, 9.0, 11.0 and 13.0 g by size. Fluff pulp 8.0, 10.0, 12.5, 15.0 and 17.5 g. SAP is a polymer, it is in the plastic family, and it is what makes a nappy hold anything for eight hours
• Rewet under load below 0.3 g after three insults, and rate of absorption under 5 seconds on the first, both to IS 17509. Rewet is the number that decides whether skin stays dry, and it is the one nobody prints
• pH of the aqueous extract 6.5, to IS 17509
• No chlorine bleaching. The pulp is totally chlorine free, bleached with oxygen and peroxide. AOX below the limit of quantification, and dioxins and furans by ISO 18073 below the limit of quantification, per lot
• No lotion. Many nappies carry a petrolatum or aloe coating on the top sheet, which is a leave-on cosmetic applied to the nappy area for twelve hours at a stretch and is usually described as a soft feel rather than named. There is none here and the top sheet is bare polypropylene
• No fragrance and no masking agent. A perfumed nappy exists to cover a smell that a timely change removes, and it puts scent chemistry against the most occluded skin on a baby
• 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 by ISO 10993-5, skin irritation by ISO 10993-23 and skin sensitisation by ISO 10993-10, all on the finished nappy. Bioburden within the standard limits
• Sold under the ISI mark, which is not a boast: the Quality Control Order makes IS 17509 compulsory, so a nappy without a BIS licence cannot legally be sold in India. The licence number is on the pack
• Cost per nappy: Rs 10.59 New born, Rs 11.27 Small, Rs 13.87 Medium, Rs 16.28 Large, Rs 19.98 Extra large
• Honest trade-off one: twelve hours of capacity is not twelve hours of permission. Urine raises the skin pH and that reactivates enzymes from stool, which is what nappy rash actually is. Change every 2 to 3 hours in the newborn weeks whatever the wetness line says
• Honest trade-off two: it is a single-use plastic-containing article, about 58 percent polymer by mass. Wrap it in the paper wrapper in the pack and put it in dry waste. Never flush it. The Solid Waste Management Rules 2016 require the maker to supply that wrapper, and ours is paper rather than a plastic bag
• Honest trade-off three: we do not sell a cloth nappy, so this listing has no greener sibling to send you to. The wipes do. The nappy does not