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TSS: Are You at Risk?
Most of the women I know use tampons when they have their periods. They're discreet, easy to use, and make things like swimming, exercising, and sleeping so much more comfortable. Once a month, I raise my bar of chocolate in thanks to the marvelous inventor of tampons.
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You Asked: Are Chlorine-Free Tampons Healthier?
Dear Fit,
I was at the health-food store and noticed chlorine-free tampons made with organic cotton. They cost $5.99 for a box of 20, and the ones I buy at the grocery store cost $6.99 for 40. Are they worth paying almost twice as much?
In the Market For a Tampon Holder?
Sometimes old Aunt Flow comes a little earlier than expected, so it's a good idea to keep some emergency tampons on hand just in case. Here are some adorable holders you can keep in your purse or at your desk so your tampons stay clean and protected. Enjoy!
Organic Cotton Tampons: What For?
Have you ever thought about the tampons you use? You may buy a certain brand because that's what your mother uses, or it's what you've been using forever, or the brand is on sale.
It pays to read the label of your feminine hygiene products too.
Tampons Descend on Unsuspecting Sunbathers
Did you know one in seven women avoid the beach during their period? PR firm Labresse does! That's why it dropped tampons in pink parachutes down on Dutch beaches.
Dude on a Tampon Run Must Decide: Mini or Super?
With the vast array of brands and "sleek designs" and colors and smells and grips and absorption options, how does a dude on a tampon run make a selection? Let's just say his fingers take no part in the picking. Neither does his brain.
Tampons and Maxi Pads: A Walk Down Memory Lane
Whether you call it your Moon Time or the Curse, if you're a woman, you have to contend with a monthly period. Let's take a look at how advertising sold its pads and 'pons to women of yore. Whether it was through distraction (hey, look, a pretty dress!) or through the rhetoric of freedom, advertisers did their best to sell a product women have never really been thrilled to buy.
Serena Williams vs. Aunt Flo — Love It or Leave It?
While I think tampons sell themselves thanks to their life-changing qualities, Tampax has recruited tennis great Serena Williams to pitch their lady products in a new commercial. Dressed in her tennis whites, Serena has nothing to fear from Mother Nature, because she's also wearing a tampon! Over the years, companies have appealed to femininity or used the rhetoric of freedom to sell tampons to women.
Tampax Really Knows How to Nix the Menstruation Taboo
As if there isn't enough weirdness surrounding the menstruation taboo, the creative minds over at Tampax deem it fun and appropriate to suggest that menstruating women can suck the water up out of pools — because of the highly absorbent artillery they shove up themselves for period relief. Thanks to tampons, absolutely nothing can escape a menstruating woman's vajayjay. Nothing!
Tampon Extravaganza!
Tampons aren't just for that time of the month anymore! Check out these hilarious images from the Not So Fresh Feeling menstruation themed flickr group Jezebel found. There are a couple maxi pad pics thrown in (don't want them to feel left out).
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