To email the makers of Always and tell them they are stupid?

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I don't want scented sanitary towels or ones that are 'pretty,' I just want them to do the job they are supposed to do! There's no need to make them 'pretty,' no one's going to see them and they will change colour anyway.

I don't know why I am on this thread, I never use santiary products.

But dd uses always and the stupid pink bags and plasticky crapness annoys.

With you on hating Always. I moved to Boots' own and they do the same job but don't feel as plasticy.

But I do like wings as I'm fairly heavy and wriggle a lot in the night so it makes my life easier as even with tampons I am guaranteed to leak within about 3 hours (sorry if TMI!); without wings I did find one at the bottom of the bed instead of in my knickers, stuck to the duvet. Luckily, this was pre DH days so no one there to witness my shame and subsequent clear up

Yes. "Have A Happy Period"

Fuck OFF!

I bet it was a bloke that came up with that.

I want to find them and pack every orifice full of their bloody pads until they look like bloody smurfs!

belle They had a range of slimline ones, like always. Just less garish and more cottony:)

I may have to search. Thank you Procastinator.

While you're on to them, can you please ask them to sort out the Wings? They end up glued together underneath and sometimes in the mornings I have to cut the pad off my knickers.
Horrific

I'm in the wings=good camp ( just don't stick em onto fabric until you have pulled up knickers and checked the pad-positioning).

Stupid pretty patterns are just ridiculous. Desperate marketing attempt to differentiate and 'add value' .
Ditto discreet pink and flowery packaging.

Wow, that's bad tak1ng

belle Kotex site

Thank you.

tak1ng, yep, I too have had that, when pad detach from fabric, allowing it to rotate around the gusset, but not detach from itself without considerable force.
oh, it's hard being a woman

I feel I ought to say I'm not an employee, just when I used pads they were pretty much all I could tolerate.

We're never really out of nappies

I used to use Tampax but I can't any more due to various pelvic health problems. So I'm on the pads and what I would really like is:

• non scented
• non patterned
• slim & discreet under clothes (which most of them are nowadays, thank God. Remember pads in the early 90s?)
• wings that don't stick together
• soft material, ideally cotton feeling
• plain packaging that is designed by WOMEN
• respectful product-focussed advertising that is developed by WOMEN

I would also like some % of the profits to go to research into endometriosis; premenstrual syndrome; PCOS etc. so that perhaps they could really help to make periods happier.

Are pads v bad for the environment? I think they must be. I would like some recognition of this on the part of the manufacturers and an effort to offset somehow.

Oh, that's annoying. Our Boots still does them, but I notice on their stockists list that Tesco is no longer listed.

You could order them online, or the natracare ones? Natracare are bulkier though.

Always always gave me nappy rash. i also blame them for giving me fanjo eczema.

so glad i plucked up the courage to switch to mooncup and fairy hammocks, every thing down there feels so much better now(tmi).

Taking, you should look at my link too :)

I have no idea if they were developed by women, BTW, but I have a feeling they must have been.

tigana "I'm in the wings=good camp ( just don't stick em onto fabric until you have pulled up knickers and checked the pad-positioning). "
but that doesn't work!!
You just have to stand up and the bloody wings stick to your legs, to your knickers and everywhere! It's impossible to move the bloody things, i think they use superglue!

Bertie they've got wings

When I first started having periods, 27 years ago, the pads were so thick, like putting a folded towel between your legs and trying to walk. I work on a female psych ward and we still have those towels

I don't get periods anymore, almost wish I did so I could give a moon cup a go. Not sure my pelvic floor would hold it in place though

oh, god, yes, i remember those early days (only 22 years ago).
my mum wouldn't buy the posh expensive ones (weird shaped flatter ones), so we had to walk round like John Wayne for a week!

I really hate Always.

Have a happy period... they can fuck right off.

Im warming to the idea of mooncups
Are they good?
Should i start a thread hmmm... Yes i may do

Ps back to not hijacking thread, the worst thing about pads, i think, is the feeling of it coming out of you

The blood i mean... Tmi sorry