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Latex is a natural ingredient that comes from rubber trees in the form of a milky liquid. There are thousands of species of plants that produce different types of latex, including the Chicle tree that yields the raw material for producing the rubbery material in chewing gum.
For instance latex paint does not contain natural rubber latex but does contain liquid synthetic polymers. The word latex by itself does not refer to natural rubber latex. Natural Rubber Latex. Natural Rubber Latex refers to the white sap that comes from the hevea brasiliensis tree.