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These chemicals can help make the material in tampons and pads more absorbent, but advocates argue they can be replaced by safer substances.

“The dressing’s bulked up a bit because you need a bit of absorbent. You don’t want to be walking around with bloody gauze on his ear,” Jackson said.

These adhesives work by rapidly absorbing water from wet tissues, using polyacrylic acid, an absorbent material used in diapers.

The researchers painstakingly removed each drowned flea using tweezers, set them to dry on absorbent paper, and then transferred them to test tubes for laboratory identification and analyses.

Dry off the exterior with a towel or clean cloth, even your shirtsleeve — anything that’s absorbent.