acid acrylamide or acrylic esters as copolymer only preferably the super absorbent polymer may swell in water or other introduced liquids up to about 200 to about 400 times its size it is also preferred that the super absorbent polymers are nontoxic the cooling mat may be prepared by dipping spraying and or dot spraying an aqueous solution of an acrylic monomer and crosslinking agent onto the fibrous substrate upon polymerization of the acrylic monomer the resultant crosslinked polymer should be substantially entangled within the fibrous substrate in an exemplary embodiment the acrylic monomer solution is in the form of the partially neutralized acrylic acid the partially neutralized acrylic acid is introduced in water to one or more crosslinking agents and uv sensitive or peroxide reagents a uv light or heat may be used to form the polymer as a crosslinked polymer without the crosslinking monomers but the crosslinking agents assist in better controlling the level and degree of crosslinking and strength associated with crosslinked polymers polymerization of the one or more super absorbent polymers may occur via exposure to ultraviolet uv light radiation peroxides or other known polymerization process uv dependent photoinitiators of polymerization useful in exemplary embodiments of the present invention are water soluble or water dispersible compounds that generate free radicals upon exposure to uv irradiation examples of such polymerization initiators include 4 benzoyl n n dimethyl n 2.