To think that sanitary towels should not be scented!

[bumbleymummy]

What were Always thinking? They were the only brand in the shop and they smell vile! Why? Why would anyone choose this?

I'm usually a tampon user but my first period post partum crept up on me and I had none in stock so sent DH to the shop and he came home with a 30 pack of always towels. My God they reek! My cousin actually asked what scent the air freshener I'd sprayed in my bathroom was, I had to explain that it was actually the packet of always on the top of the toilet.
I will be giving DH an education in feminine hygiene products and ensuring they never enter my house again!

Well, I like them. And you can buy the unscented version too, it's usually right next to the 'fresh' ones on the shelf.

And I hate tampons. Only use them going swimming/on holiday.

I have one word: mooncups

tametempo, Tescos own brand, seriously. They do a super-size, with wings, v comfy. 6p a pop - what's not to like?

We should link them to this thread?

YANBU. They stink when you open them and they stink even more when the blood hits them.

I too wonder if other people can smell them when sitting next to someone on a heavy period.

I have never ever sat/stood next to someone and thought that she smells of menstruation! So why is it suddenly imperative for always to fill their pads odour neutralisers

I think I've mentioned before about the weird musty smell I had in my bedroom. I bottomed the room and it was still there. Then I got around to binning some stinky panty liners that I'd bought by mistake and the smell magically disappeared.

I wonder how may of them do end up in landfil, unused.

Local chemist sells Kotex liners, which are unscented, but they're too short for night time. I don't need a full sized towel. I'm perimenopausal and have one stonkingly heavy day when I can use a tampon, but need back up at night or when I'm particularly active because the buggers fall out and then a few days of light spotting.

BlueBananas the advice with tampons at night is to change just before you go to bed and just after you wake up.

Pacific - surely if your towel was 'malodorous' you would just change it rather than trying to cover it up with air freshener?

zog, on the occasions DD needs disposables for going away on a trip or camping etc, I also sniff the packets, i do try to make sure there is no one in the same aisle before I do!

howto, if only I had found MN and learnt about moon cups before I was perimenopausal… now my pelvic floor is shot to pieces and the 20 quid seem like quite an outlay

Hate them too and now resorted to sainsburys own brand which are thicker than always but at least they don't have the overpowering smell.

It's the level of ignorance I think, Lemonade.

I had a 4th degree tear and a huge prolapse so wearing tampons hurts.

Those smelly things do irritate my skin, despite what Always say. But their Infinity range is fantastic (and non-smelly).

Bumbly, yes, quite.
A 'fresh' period smell is not malodorous IMO.
And articifical air freshener smells are.

Salmisk, yes, has anybody ever smelt another woman's period? Really??

I hate them. HATE them.

I normally buy own brand STs but had to grab Always today because they were the only ones being sold at the garage shop.

I fucking reek.

They remind me of those awful lavender drawer liners from years ago.

"Surely their sales are down?"

You would think so. It's why I stopped buying them and this isn't the first internet thread I've encountered bewailing them. Unless scented sanitary towels are the Tories of the feminine hygiene world and there are a load of people who like them and buy them but just don't tell pollsters us.

Thanks Pacific haven't tried them so will give them a go!
I have tried to leave the safe clutches of Always and try new brands but I've used them since my teens and I'm a creature of habit and I've not yet found a brand that absorbs a heavy flow as well as the stinking Always brand do so I always come crawling back.

please excuse my ignorance of your gynaecological maladies.
I've honestly never spoken with you before.....

"It's the level of ignorance I think, Lemonade."

Yes, this.

This isn't the point of the thread but I never heard of washable sanitary towels. I fared well with washable nappies so are these for me?! Do they stay white as might look grim otherwise or are they another colour ?

I too wonder if other people can smell them when sitting next to someone on a heavy period.

Yes, especially in this heat. I actually asked DH earlier. :o

my ignorance of the San pro choices of other women is offensive/problematic?

really?

lemonade I think it was that your first post seemed almost mocking of women who use them.

It's a little patronising to imply that towels are childish and that grown women should be using whatever form of sanitary protection you deem age appropriate. There are many reasons why other people might not want to or be able to use tampons. They're a choice, not something you graduate into using.