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Toggle Navigation. The Sanitary Apron In the s , that time of the month must have been extra uncomfortable. Kotex Cellulose Pads Another solution born from a previous function: this cotton-acrylic blend was used for WWI bandages, and went on to be showcased as a revolutionary way to deal with periods.
Adhesive Pads In , a company called Stayfree were the first to put out a sanitary pad with an adhesive strip, so that it could stick to underwear without any fuss. We provide a range of sanitary bins and sanitary waste collection services to all kinds of businesses nationwide, and also offer packs and dispensers of FabLittleBag disposal bags. Service s :. Mary Barton, an English physician at the time, agreed in a correspondence published in the British Medical Journal in She conceded that leaving them in for too long could lead to infection Medical and marketing interviews found that most women did not return to pads once they had learned how to insert tampons correctly.
But many communities were hesitant to embrace tampons because of moral concerns about virginity, masturbation, and its potential to act as contraception 1. That being said, she was a strong supporter of increased options for women, stating:. But because people continued to be hesitant about tampons, innovations in pads continued to bloom.
Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner, a female African-American inventor, patented the sanitary belt in , the first product featuring an adhesive to keep the pad in place 5. She interviewed thousands of women across the country, answering questions about size and fit they tended to be too large with inflexible edges and preferences most women wanted smaller, more discreet packaging.
She inspired a new wave of very successful ad campaigns focused on allowing girls to maintain their innocence, so to speak, by separating menstruation from sex and reproduction. Ads presented period products as allowing girls to participate in sports and recreational activities, helping to reinforce the idea of adolescent girls as playful youth 3. This strategy was also used by tampon campaigns hoping to overcome the moral concerns people still had about them. Creative modifications to period products continued into the age of peace, love, and rock and roll.
The first beltless pads came out in , inspiring variations like heavy flow, light flow, and mini-pads. In the s, versions of modern maxi pads and pads with wings hit the market.
Tampons continued to increase in popularity. But a massive health concern about them made news when over 5, cases of Toxic Shock Syndrome TSS were reported between and 7. Most of the cases were linked to a specific tampon brand and specific materials which are now no longer on the market.
While these health scares did not discourage women from using the products, they brought to light a lack of government regulation over the safety and composition of menstrual products.
It quickly became clear that giving Kotex sanitary napkins name recognition would be vital to selling the product, and the company launched a game-changing advertising campaign that helped to shape how menstruation—and women—were seen in the s.
In , Mandziuk published a study of the s ad campaign promoting Kotex sanitary napkins, focusing on advertisements that appeared in Good Housekeeping. For their time and place, the advertisements are almost shockingly explicit—although, like many modern ads for menstrual products, they never explicitly state their use. Another ad shows two women in an office environment.
Advertising for Kotex sanitary napkins framed menstruation as something that could—and should—be concealed. Though some Kotex sanitary napkin advertisements show women in real working environments, throughout the s, the advertising increasingly moved away from being about the real working women who might benefit most from the product and more into the sphere of an ideal.
This presented women with a catch, she says: While Kotex did make the lives of s women who could afford to buy the pads better, its ads framed menstruation as a handicap that required fixing rather than a natural process. Before Kotex sanitary napkins hit the market in , most women relied on homemade cloth pads although some storemade cloth pads and disposables had been on offer since the late s.
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