Sodding pongy sanitary products!

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Just got my period back 10 months post partum. Found a pack of Always ultra from ages ago. Jackpot!

WHERE do Always get their reeking scent from?! Genuine question. This packet has sat in a cupboard for well over a year and I feel quite nauseous with the overwhelming stench of scent when I change my pads.

And who decides that a menstruating woman would love to smell like ancient air-freshener?!

I checked the packet and absolutely nowhere does it state that these abominations are scented.

Anyone up for organising a boycott?

A few people have posted on here that the perfumed ones make them itchy. I can't avoid using Always Secure Night at times because I am so heavy but I use Bodyform the rest of the time. And funnily enough, I realised this month that I was getting a bit itchy. That could have been down to the flow, the hormones etc, or it could have been down to the scent.

The manufacturers are pretty arrogant to make it so difficult to buy unscented ones that make people so uncomfortable.

I see that someone has mentioned the Morrisons night-time ones, I might give them a go. If anyone else has any suggestions to avoid nighttime leaks AND itchy bottoms/lady bits, please post them here :)

I use sea sponge and cloth pads. I much prefer these to tamping or disposable pads.

Another vote for moon/diva cup. Honestly it has changed my life during period time.

I open the packet up at the end of my period and find the scent has dissipated by the time my next period comes round. I've taken to using lilets now though as pads do naff all

Also boycotting Always. I hate the smell, it's disgusting.

I've always been too scared to use a mooncup. I'd have a "ping-ping-splat" moment every time, I'm just too clumsy.

I've made my own pads before and it's easy. Polar fleece or a cotton knit for the top layer, hemp, killington flannel, Burley knit terry or Zorb (from Wazoodle.com) for the middle bit, which is quilted to the top layer and then a laminated fabric for a leakproof bottom layer. I used a pair of knickers to make the pattern template and that meant I was able to adjust it to be exactly right for me. In half a day I made a huge pile of them and then it was just a case of fixing the snaps on.

If odour control was really that important to us, then Fabreze would make sanitary products rather than a glade scent (other synthetic scents are available) copy-cat.

Thanks goodness I'm not the only scent despiser! Absolutely bogging.
Odour is a top concern? My arse. WOMEN - FEEL MORE SHAME, more like. It's another thing to try and make us neurotic about, like Dove with having attractive underarm skin. Oh do fuck off.

I recently returned to towels after donkeys with a mooncup, and scented Always made me retch. Bodyform are great - unscented, with a useful sticky outer packet so you can dispose of them easily, if in an utterly planet destroying way.

I've used always ever since my periods started at 12 but I've now switched to Bodyform. They smell disgusting and they make me itch - horrible.

I emergency bought some always the other day, they smell like perm lotion! I don't want to wonder if my pubes have had a perm everytime I drop my drawers..vile.

I switched to cloth pads and menstrual cups because of the stinky, plasticky, sweaty mess that is sanitary towels and the dreaded tampon scrape when a tampon isn't quite full. Makes me cringe at the thought

I use a meluna cup. Always hated the scented things, there's no need to make your bits smell like you let off a can of air freshener.

I second tescos own brand. Good price and does the job. I use with a mix of moon cup and towels. Can't use tampons since ds's birth.

I've switched to bodyform as well. As a bonus every time I use one I hear the bodyform song in my head WOAH body formed for you

I'm a recent mooncup (actually Dutchesse cup) convert and can't praise it enough. It's much easier to get in and out than I'd expected - in fact I had problems at first because I was expecting it to be more difficult and thought I must have got it wrong! No smell, no risk of TSS, no creeping downwards and no string to wee on.

ill go against the grain and say i use them

please dont make me say why

I use a cup and cloth pads too. I second buying them from Earth wise girls. Charlie Banana have been good so far.
If you put HAPPY into the voucher code box then you'll get 10% off.

I find anything scented makes me itch horribly. Also, if your menstrual blood is genuinely so smelly that you need to cover the stink, you need to see a doctor because there is an excellent chance you have a nasty infection!

Another cloth user here. Eco rainbow minky are my faves. Also have a cup for practicality when traveling, on a long shift and so on but I prefer pads to having something up there.

Gah: no judging here, why!?

umm.... i can smell myself.......not a minging odour, just.....like a ........smell.......

tried all brands and the scented ones seem to improve things a little

I have an acute sense of smell, and am aware that there are changes in 'my' smell throughout my cycle. Well-maintained and clean vag, at any point in a menstrual cycle, is far preferable to minging air freshener pong. And nobody wants to smell yeasty when they get an inevitable bout of thrush afterwards!

I tried reusables but I didn't find they felt secure enough.

Vile things.
Another thing that bugs me - why on earth are they all so wide??!!
I haven't got a single pair of knickers that actually fit them.
In the olden days (and I'm talking about maybe 30ish years ago , Bodyform used to do a lovely 'safe' feeling towel that wasn't flat , sort of mounded that used to fit my 'pants and profile' much better!