cellulose wadding
celucotton

However cellulose wadding was rough against the skin and when wet, crumbled into balls.

Creped cellulose wadding is also available.

Cellulose wadding.

In 1944, Hugo Drangel of the Swedish paper company Pauliström suggested an idea of placing sheets of paper tissue (cellulose wadding) inside the cloth diaper and rubber pants.

In 1925, inventor Boris Aivaz patented the process of making a cigarette filter from crepe paper, with some variants including cellulose wadding, during experiments at the Ortmann plant of Bunzl.

In 1947, a housewife in the UK, Valerie Hunter Gordon, started developing and making Paddi, a 2-part system of a disposable pad (cellulose wadding covered with cotton wool) and an outer plastic, adjustable garment with press-studs/ snaps.