- Shorter periods
- Less pain
- Less PMT/PMS
- No or less smell
- Cheaper
- "cleaner"
- Less irritating
- Cloth Sanitary Towels/pads
- Cups
- Sea Sponges
Not all women get all of these benefits but, anecdotally, it seems many do.
Options for reusable sanitation can be as simple or as complicated, cheap or expensive as you like. Products include:
Like many it was cloth nappies that turned me onto other cloth products. I had my child in 2014 and decided to cloth nappy for both economic and environmental reasons - we were losing a second income and the cost savings just made sense. While pregnant I had the inevitable leaks while coughing, sneezing etc and I took to wearing panty liners. Hating the cost of these slim items I figured there must be a better way and asked in Ravelry.com, a knitting forum, I was pointed towards Earthwise Girls and promptly purchased a handful of liners. This was life changing, they were actually prettier than the pants I put them in and so I started looking further afield.
As a novice seamstress I decided to make my own and 3 years later I'm still using them. The pattern I used is from Amy Nix, who also has some fantastic youtube videos that show you, step by step, how to make them. Lunawolf is also very popular but most facebook groups have free templates to use.
As you can imagine there is a facebook group for both making and buying pads so I'm going to post a few links below:
Facebook Groups:
- Sewing Cloth Menstrual Pads
- Menstrual Cups Worldwide
- WAHMs who make CSP Cloth sanitary protection sales group UK
- Amy Nix Cloth & Cups YT Group
- 'Fluffy vagina blankets': How reusable sanitary pads became a period phenomenon
- I used reusable sanitary towels and I liked it (and you should too
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