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Health benefits: Disposable diapers contain chemicals like dioxin and sodium polyacrylate which may cause health problems to both babies and the people who work in the disposable manufacturing industries.

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The main components of most conventional disposable diapers are a polyethylene film, which can be made to look and feel like cloth; a cellulose pad; and sodium polyacrylate or super-absorbent polymer (SAP).

The diapers» absorbent core contains... MORE wheat starch, which allows Bambo Nature to use less sodium polyacrylate (SAP) than traditional disposables.

The main difference is that regular disposable diapers contain water crystals (sodium polyacrylate) which are meant to absorb liquids (like pee).

The chemical sodium polyacrylate is found in disposable diapers and can absorb up to 1,000 times its weight, which makes the diaper able to hold so much urine.

Disposable diapers contain sodium polyacrylate, a type of super absorbent polymer (SAP), which becomes a gel - like substance when wet.

Specifically, most disposable diapers on the market today use a chemical compound known as sodium polyacrylate, which is used frequently in gardening, too, to help soil retain water.

The absorbent material in the diapers contain sodium polyacrylate, which can cause severe skin infections and is the «same substance that was removed from tampons in 1985 because of its link to toxic shock syndrome».

Sodium Polyacrylate (silica gel, those little crystals that sometimes appear at a diaper change): known as an absorbing agent inside a diaper, also acts as a drying agent which could lead to causing diaper rash.

There are lots of chemicals that go into making a disposable diaper such as chlorine which is carcinogenic and highly toxic; sodium polyacrylate, which is extremely absorbent and can rob a baby's skin of its natural moisture (this was taken out of tampons for its link to toxic shock syndrome); and tributyl - tin which has been found toxic to aquatic life and has been linked to obesity.

Additionally, they have sodium polyacrylate, which is a super-absorbency material that causes toxic shock syndrome in tampons by harboring harmful bacteria.

Disposable diapers are filled with chemicals like sodium polyacrylate, which turn into gel when exposed to moisture.

Even more worrisome are the super-absorbent diapers, which often contain cross-linked sodium polyacrylate, a powder that turns to a gel in contact with liquid.

The powder substance in disposables that absorbs liquid, sodium polyacrylate, is a super absorbent polymer which was banned from tampons due to links with toxic shock syndrome.