We receive many calls and emails with questions regarding our fastastic Dwinguler® Play Mats and Bubba Mats™, as well as other concerns. We will be listing some of these which we hope may be of some assistance with the purchase of children's products.

NOTICE:  In response to several recent enquiries regarding plastic based playmats and similar looking products:

There are a number of products appearing online and in some stores being marketed to appear like a Dwinguler® play mat or Bubba Mat™.  In fact to the extent the copyrighted images and product information is being used to misrepresent these products as being the same as Dwinguler or Bubba Mat. Some of these are branded and many unbranded and generic claiming to be the same safe quality. These products are not the same. These are copy cat products. Unless it is branded Dwinguler® or Bubba Mat™ then it is an inferior product made from lower quality materials and indeed very often completely different materials. When it comes to chemicals used for baby products, then safety and quality are paramount and are the drive behind Dwinguler and Bubba Mat.

As with all things; you get what you pay for, and when products are made from chemcials for babies and children then the components used should be the safest and best quality. It is no surprise that many large companies and brands choose profits over quality and safety. It may however come as a surprise to know that presently Australia has no mandatory testing required and therefore no real regulation for these types of play spaces made from chemicals. As such we now know why our stores are often offering products with formamide, phthalates, and BPA in them.

The Dwinguler play mats and Bubba Mats choose not to use materials that are known to be banned in other countries, as well as chemicals that are considered suspect. The simple policy is to use only the safest materials in manufacture and then have the product tested to available world standards. It does cost more, and more again to annually test and certify this, however these products are for our children so the investment is more than worth it.

The Dwinguler play mats and Bubba Mats are tested annually to meet the strict regulations of The US Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA). They are further tested to comply with the European Standards on safety for these types of products. Australia has adopted the standard from Europe as a guide, though as mentioned above there is no requirement to have products tested for compliance locally. It therefore means many cheap and nasty products can continue to be sold locally for our kids, and the often arbitrary 'non-toxic' token package marking may not necesarily be trustworthy.