Smart Gauze
Smart Hygiene provides a competitively priced superior substitute to cotton-based medical gauze and wound care products. We understand the importance of innovation and sustainability. Smart Gauze represents the intersection of innovation and sustainability in the wound care market, starting with a 4x4 100% Woven Gauze.
Why Smart Gauze?
1. Absorbency
2X as absorbent as comparable surgical grade cotton-based gauze
2. Biocompatibility
- Smart Gauze is fully inert in living tissue*
- Bacteriostatic
- Smart Gauze is ISO 10993 Compliant:
- noncytotoxic
- low skin irritation
- skin sensitivity
3. Lint and Fragment Free
- Mitigates embolization risk
- Anti-flocking design
- Meets ASTM standards
4. Patient Centric
Smart Gauze is built to provide comfort to our patients while fulfilling the needs of healthcare practitioners. Smart Gauze is:
- Ultrasoft
- Smooth
- Easier to remove from wounds than traditional cotton-based woundcare
5. Strength
- 4X Stronger than comparable surgical grade cotton-based gauze
6. Biodegradable
- Biodegradable in soil and landfill, 120 days
- fully dissociative at 90 °C
- Reduces single use carbon footprint
- Uses less material than surgical grade cotton-based gauze substitute
Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) Photos
350 x Magnification
Demonstrates smoothness, reliability and fibre integrity compared to Cotton
Stress Strain ASTM Results
Smart Gauze is superior to Cotton in strength
