Daily liners/pantiliners

[sillybean]

Is it me or are these a bit of a con? Made to make women feel like they need to be fresh and clean down there.

I appreciate that some women may need them if they have lots of discharge/irregular periods/incontinence etc.

But I feel like this kind of liner and they way it's marketed is made to make women feel like natural smells and secretions are something that needs managing.

Sorry if this has been discussed before but I couldn't find anything.

I used them for a couple of years after dc2. My smell was different, and stronger than usual. It wasnt a bad smell, but Im a sw and didnt want vunerable clients to have a smelly sw! It was just before period pants etc came on the market.

@cologne4711

It is "supposedly", because those lecturing me about using a thin panty liner every day are probably driving SUVs one mile down the road, getting new kitchens put in every five years, and working in offices that leave their lights on all night.

I'd prefer it, if women didn't get continually guilt-tripped about needing sanitary protection. Nobody tells people that loo roll is wasteful. I wonder why?

*oh that didn't take long - because MEN use it too, but womens' needs are bad for the environment, obvs.

The fact that SUVs and so forth are also bad for the environment doesn't suddenly make single-use sanitary protection green. I'm not sure what your argument is.

But since you ask, I don't own a car, I live in a house share where the kitchen is so worn that some of the kitchen cupboard doors are holding on by a thread, and the lights in my office are motion-sense controlled.

Scarlettpixie hit the nail on the head. Some women need them. Some women don't. There ya go. That's life.

With any thread like this, there always seems to be an endless stream of incredulous posters who don't understand why everyone doesn't experience the world in the same way as them. If only I'd thought of changing my underwear instead of stupidly using something designed to help me with excess discharge, eh?

Stop shaming women regarding sanitary protection and let us choose products which work for us. Most people want to do right by the environment but there’s nothing worse than the Mooncup conversion brigade. Whilst I’m glad you’ve found a product that works for you, please don’t try and make me feel bad because I can’t get on with one.

The fact that SUVs and so forth are also bad for the environment doesn't suddenly make single-use sanitary protection green. I'm not sure what your argument is

My argument is that it drives me mad when women are constantly "eco-shamed" for dealing with periods and discharge and yet panty liners are a tiny tiny part of rubbish (and where I live, everything goes to the incinerator for generating into electricity anyway, we don't have landfill) and there are far worse impacts on the planet.

In addition, I am not so sure that reusable panty liners are so much better when they require cotton and massive water use and then you have to keep washing them. It may be that the "eco-equation" does make them better, but things are not so simple as people make out.

Not RTFT; great at taking the piss

Reusable ones are far too bulky, and uncomfortable compared to the Value ones.

I have both in the house. I am very environmentally aware, I don't replace clothing every season, buy lots of plastic shite from China (which is also sold in IKEA who use sustainable wood but are not so good with plastic). I don't have a new kitchen or throw out working appliances to replace with new shiny ones. I repair clothing instead of binning it.

I don't want to walk around feeling as if I am wearing a huge nappy made of several layers of cotton flannel, or even worse man made fleece fabric that causes all manner of pollution.