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.

but I guess you wouldn't use a sanitary towel for anything else but kitchen towels would look nice on the dining table.

The VAT thing drives me bonkers. My student union used to campaign against it. Back in the day. One of either biscuits or cakes doesn't have VAT on it (can never remember which way round it is but always think of this example because of the M&S teacake litigation that went on for years to determine whether they are biscuits or cakes with millions riding on the outcome). Personally, I find some kind of sanitary product a lot more absorbant than a pile of custard creams wedged in my pants at that time of the month. Stupid tax people.

Kitchen towels on the dining table?! Oh no! Fine French linen for me.
(kidding)

Think they ripped the have a happy period from here

I remember a girl at university saying once that she bought tampax mini because she was too embarrassed to buy the 'big orange ones'.

Apart from her, I have never known a real-life woman to give a shit what colour, packaging and so on it has.

While we're on the subject, why do doctors/tampon leaflets refer to 'spotting' when you're on the pill? It's not fucking 'spotting', it's either bugger all or a gush of blood, ok?

And why would anyone follow Lil-ets on facebook. I mean really. "Follow us on facebook" No, I will only buy you when I'm caught short because Tesco Express don't stock anything else. Facebook....mutter mutter

PM (pre-mooncup) I used the Kotex towels because they were cottony and wingless. Wearing something roughly the size of a housebrick was still preferable to the horrible sweaty plastic giving me thrush.

I love my mooncup so much!

Lil-ets are nasty!

agree, I import ob whenever I'm abroad.

They probably market them to teenagers because once you're fixed on a brand, you generally stay there for life.

How about this as an advert www.adweek.com/adfreak/tampon-makers-beaver-ad-riles-australians-16151

Do many teenagers buy their own, then?

I pick up what my daughter needs-although she has been needing stuff since she was 10.

The one thing that puts me off a mooncup (ok there's more than one - but still, the main thing) is the thought of washing it out. I can't imagine anything worse .

Does nobody use lil-lets anymore then? I'm a tampax girl through and through (ahem). Lil-lets are almost as bad as housebricks...

i prefer lilets to any other kind of tampon - bloody hate tampax because they stretch longwards up your fanjo.
that's just wrong

i prefer something that expands sideways - and the applicator on tampax is just yucky.
at least using your finger, you can wipe it afterwards.

I must have a naturally long fanjo (is that like a bloke saying he has a big one too?). I don't like the new fangled tampax - applicators are all scratchy and horrible. Good old cardboard anyday.

I'm not squeamish - I'm a nurse so used to bodily fluids - not sure why I would mind my own more than other people's.....

God, I'd forgotten about the VAT thing, grrr! Does our wonderfully woman-friendly government have a 'wimmen's minister' in the cabinet (much as the idea gets my goat) or did that vanish with Harriet Harman?

Have been having periods since I was 9, and I remember Dr Whites, tho they had useless sticky backing by then. Now age 33, have displayed no brand loyalty whatsoever, partly go by what is on offer and partly by what I know will stand up to my flow - I have never found night time pads to be long enough and have to fashion a super long arrangement for the first 2 or 3 days using a night time pad plus a super or super plus one end to end in the old grotty knicks, and the bastarding thing thing still leaks.

Def agree about the dry-weave top sheets, just hadn't thought about them being uncomfortable and sweat inducing / sore fanny inducing too! Cardboard applicators def better / comfier too, and a bit more environmentally friendly than the horrible plastic scratchy ones?

Tried mooncup but didn't get on with it, it hurt something deep inside my innards and nearly made me faint with the pain, so I gave up on it but I may try it again once I'm postnatal! However, my favourite was using cerazette (can't use OCP) and not having any periods whilst on it nor for 3 months after stopping it . Not loving the 2 1/2 stone I put on thanks to cerazette tho!

I HATE "have a happy period" obviously.. god knows what prick thought that one up.

However, I do sort of like the swirly patterns on always which are my brand of choice.. I prefer them to bodyform who I started off with back in the 90's.

tesco sani towls are 17P!!! yes 17P

fuck always, I suspect for teenagers

Once I was 14 or 15 I used to buy my own when I was in town, from Boots. Certainly by 16 when I was working I was expected to buy my own toiletries.

Why do you think Always and Tampax give out free samples in schools? :) I would guess most people do stay brand loyal though because once you've found one you like, it's a bit of a gamble to try a new brand.

Washing out a mooncup is okay. You do it straight away under running water so it just goes straight down the sink, it's not like you are gouging congealed blood out of the crevices.

can i be dumb and ask what a mooncup is and i fucking hate the MOTHER NATURE ads

@ devonshiredumpling I believe a mooncup is a plastic cup thingy which goes inside and catches the blood and then you remove it to get rid of the blood. I don't use one...I'm a lillets girl through and through.

I remember the mahooosive towels when I was a teenager and the all the girls used to walk around saying "can you see my ST?" paranoidly. Then came Bodyform which was the best thing since sliced bread at the time. I worked on a saturday in a chemist and bought a packet of Lillets, and the rest is history.

My only problem is that recently they changed the celophane wrapped so that instead of a bit you peel off, you have to twist the celophane. Bloody took me ages to work that out whilst sitting on the loo! And have you ever tried getting the celophane off without any help?? Nightmare.

Other than that the largest one they do is the "extra super duper maxi" one which unfortunately only lasts about 3 hours on my heaviest day. I always have leakage! Bloody endometriosis!

Oh yes, and I hate the Always ad with the colours? WTF is all that about.

And they jewish mother type Mother Nature for the Tampax Pearl ad. I just want to smack her when she offers her "monthly gift". It's not called a curse for nothing!

I am the product of older parents and when I started my periods my mother delighted in buying me my own belt thing and a massive pack of looped towels.. You can imagine my excitement and delight. And my mother was quite insistent that only "married women" could use Tampax. Needless to say I ignored the crazy old bat and bought big boxes of tampons out of my pocket money. Did anyone else find Lilets hurt to put in?