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After watching my mom and sister spend $12 a pop on those store-bought disposable heat pads and around $30 or more on various gimicky microwaveable reusable ones, I stumbled upon this idea while marveling at how MUCH pee my nephew's diaper held.
A bag of 40 diapers costs about $10, so you will be spending about $.25 each. You can reuse these a couple dozen times easily, so figure on a penny per use (not including any energy cost for running your microwave, of course). Not bad, when compared to the $12 for one or two single-use disposable hot pads at the drugstore. These retain thir heat for a couple hours.
A bag of 40 diapers costs about $10, so you will be spending about $.25 each. You can reuse these a couple dozen times easily, so figure on a penny per use (not including any energy cost for running your microwave, of course). Not bad, when compared to the $12 for one or two single-use disposable hot pads at the drugstore. These retain thir heat for a couple hours.
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The gel is really benign ... unless you eat or inhale it. Even skin-to-gel direct exposure does nothing more than dry the skin slightly. It eventually breaks down in normal environmental conditions, but the shells of these items (both the spun "cloth" material and the nonpermeable plastic barrier) do not.
Most women I know who have chosen to use cloth for babies or themselves have done so for environmental and cost reasons, because disposable options are both expensive and wasteful. These are much more compelling reasons to me that scaremongering about the absorptive material.