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Tampax "fresh"

27 replies

Akire · 09/05/2016 20:33

Just seen advert for tampax "fresh" this means they going start stuffing all tampons with bog cleaner pine disinfectant , can smell you have your period a mile off, itch iratating evil and try tell us it's fresh arghhhhh. AIBU ?

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AuntieStella · 09/05/2016 20:46

Suddenly the peri-menopause seems an attractive time of life...

They tried scented back in the 1980s (Playtex?) They didn't catch on because no-one wanted to shove icky air freshener up their fanjo (and because the plastic applicators were not biodegradable)

UterusUterusGhali · 09/05/2016 20:48

Oh dear god!

That sounds vile!

KingJoffreyLikesJaffaCakes · 09/05/2016 20:49

Can't we just hang those little tree airfreshners on our knickers?

carabos · 09/05/2016 20:50

14 months into menopause and it seems to me that the benefits far outweigh the disadvantages. One of the many benefits being that I don't have to seek out sanitary items that don't smell like one of those Xmas tree dangly air fresheners that people put in taxis.

Junosmum · 09/05/2016 20:52

Nooooo!

Akire · 09/05/2016 20:58

At moment got a pink fresh icon on put its not going be long until start sniffing tampons too! Burning pads but enough but not knowing until it's been up there while ouch.

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monkeysox · 09/05/2016 21:00

I'll just buy a magic tree and stick that up my chuff. Ffs. Or one of them auto spray ones and puffs out a bit every so often. Confused

kippersyllabub · 09/05/2016 21:02

Who buys this perfumed shite? Surely they just result in an itchy flange?

jellycat1 · 09/05/2016 21:07

Oh God help us! Just came on after second (and final) baby - born relatively close to first - and forgot what a pain it is. Scented pads are bad enough but tampons?!! Agree that early menopause might be handy around now!!

novemberchild · 09/05/2016 21:24

Why not just stick a tin of 'Glade' up there and be done??

SmellOfPythonInTheMorning · 09/05/2016 21:25

Because who doesn't like all sort of man made chemicals up their fanjo.

OfficiallyUnofficial · 09/05/2016 21:27

I didn't realise I smelt of old dog and smoke 😟

Oh well I shall start buying new car smell foo stuffers

BadDoGooder · 09/05/2016 21:41

And this is why I just bought my second menstrual cup.

Ffs I utterly despise the implication that something completely natural and normal needs covering up with fucking evil chemicals.

Why are they doing this to women? No one asked for it, now it is pushed on us, and teens are groing up thinking it's better to have an itchy and uncomfortable vagina, than bear the horror of a natural period.

BadDoGooder · 09/05/2016 21:42

*groing? growing ffs.

GinAndSonic · 09/05/2016 21:45

Ffs, I have never met a single person (other than my repressed sister) that thinks a fanjo should smell like anything other than a fanjo.

Junosmum · 09/05/2016 21:56

Mooncups, or similar are the only way to go now!

Winterbiscuit · 09/05/2016 21:59

Ridiculous. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

BusStopBetty · 09/05/2016 22:00

Well that's a one way ticket to a thrush-ridden chuff.

kippersyllabub · 09/05/2016 22:28

Do these companies make artificially scented products that go right next to the most sensitive parts of the male anatomy? Or is it just women that need to put up with the gladeification of our nether regions.

Akire · 09/05/2016 22:36

Good point, surely by now should be some sort of sponge on stick for cleaning foreskin to "keep it all fresh all day long""

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Ilovetorrentialrain · 09/05/2016 22:38

Scented tampons? WTF?! So wrong.

Littleallovertheshop · 09/05/2016 23:01

I really miss the menopause, it was the only good thing about chemotherapy.
I can't think of anything worse than shoving scented low grade materials...there.

ConfuciousSayWhat · 09/05/2016 23:09

I'll stick to lilets thanks. Why oh why must they insist on trying to give us thrush all the time?!

ConfuciousSayWhat · 09/05/2016 23:11

I've started opening the pack of sanitary pads a month in advance, it seems to get rid of the worst of the bleachy smell! Just wish always weren't so damned comfortable! (yes some of us need both pads and tampons)

Akire · 09/05/2016 23:25

I love the always foam ones infinity? More expensive but great. I found even in the non fresh ones the material had changed and it had the burn. Still can't get any night time pads without wings only really only style mattresses. Am I only woman in world wants night pad with no wings?

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