Would you like to test Pink Parcel and bettybox with your daughter? NOW CLOSED

[JustineBMumsnet]

Pink Parcel and bettybox have asked us to find Mumsnetters to test their monthly subscription boxes with their daughters. To take part, you’ll need to be a Mumsnetter who uses femcare products and/or have a daughter using femcare products.

Some information from Pink Parcel and bettybox below:

Pink Parcel: “Pink Parcel is the UK’s No1 period subscription box that unites periods and pampering to make your time of the month fuss-free and fabulous. Delivered to your door monthly on a day of your choosing each box contains over £40 of femcare and beauty products including a luxe curation of cult beauty brands, herbal teas and artisan chocolates. You can select your choice of tampons, pads or a mix of both from all your trusted femcare brands. This super convenient box ensures you’ll never run out of femcare products again.”

bettybox: “bettybox is the perfect pick me up for girls. As well as all their trusted femcare products, they can expect sweet treats, make-up, stationery and more all from brands specially selected for teens. Choose from all your favourite femcare brands and receive your monthly box with treats worth up to £30 delivered for free directly to your door. You’ll never have to worry about running out of pads again!”

If selected to take part, you’ll need to give your feedback on a thread on Mumsnet as well as completing a short survey. All who complete the required feedback will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 voucher for the store of their choice (from a list).

Please click here to sign up.

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

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Wait a second, the "Pink Parcel" is the grey box?

@badweekjustgotworse

[applauds]

Goes off to hug a tree also.

Woww !!! Great job Mumsnet 😍
Thank you very much to think about our young daughters who are beginning in their life and am sure many of them may find it very difficult with their menstruations and changes in their body :)
Great idea to get daughters and mums getting closer.Especially for those mums or daughters who are finding it difficult to open up on the subject.
This gonna be a fabulous products test 😉
We both have signed up already :)
DD is all excited to trial for Mumsnet now 😂 Crossed fingers we're in 😉

What's the point of supporting campaigns like Let Toys Be Toys etc if you're going to pander to this kind of shit, MNHQ?

This, a thousand times.

No thank you. But we'd quite like a set of screwdrivers if you've got some. Preferably not in pink.

I think many of the posters here being so effusive just want the free stuff. I wonder if without the incentive they would think more about what they’re signing up to. As in, what the actual fuck?

We would love too

Wrote a massive sweaty rant but the internet just ate it, so you’re all spared.... I’ll just link to Women’s Environmental Network’s Enviromenstrual Campaign and say, fuck off with this patronising, infantilising, environmentally damaging shit that is harming women and the planet, and shame on MN for supporting it. Shame!

I want pretty things when Aunt Flo visits. I’m shallow 😂

This isn't necessary and is quite patronising. Mumsnet HQ please drive your effort at lobbying about abolishing charges for sanpro rather than supporting this kind of girly twirly rubbish.

Urgh.

Now what I might sign up tp, for my 12 yo hypothetical DD whether she had started menstruating or not, is a FemLit delivery box - each month she would receive a feminist book, DVD or CD celebrating women and their achievements.
If she was having a hard time with periods I'd be talking to her about how to manage and giving motherly support, which would include involving the GP if necessary.

I've signed up. I've always had troublesome periods and it looks like DD has inherited this. I will be taking her to the doctors however is see nothing wrong with a bit of pampering and spoiling too !

I am undecided whether the box is a good idea or not. It wouldn’t be for me but I may have appreciated it as a 14 year old (whose mum didn’t ever discuss periods so it felt taboo).

What is clear is that Mumsnet can’t be everything to everyone. Some people seem angry that Mumsnet have subscribed to this and others seem to think it’s a good idea. Mumsnet can’t please everyone.

Jesus Christ

I got my mooncup for less than £12.99 (from the local health food shop - they have a sign that says they sell menstrual product at cost price as they 'do not wish to profit from women's biology' )

No wonder people don't take women seriously!

Am loving the FemLit box idea though. Much more useful!

"Every girl needs a BettyBox" - ooh, the TRAs will be furious!

Think I'll pass as well. Expensive, environmentally unfriendly and patronising as PPs have said.

Sign me up for the feminist hot water bottle though please.

What you need to do with your teens if they are having problem periods is stop fucking about with chocolate and hot water bottles and make up and go to the bloody doctor and get them proper treatment for it. Dd was on the pill from 14 and it has transformed her life (no exaggeration)

Done ✅

Myself and my daughters would like to try these products. Tend to buy the same things over again so nice to try something new.

We would love the idea of a reliable monthly delivery so that everything's at hand.

Love a little parcel with added treats - would definitely put a smile on daughter's face. Love a bit of pink!

How do the boxes get delivered to your house? Surely most people are at work during the day do you'd just end up schlepping to the Post Office? Superdrug is nearer and open longer...

Same here, Bluedoglead. No amount of faffing around with fripperies could have helped DD to overcome the nightmare that her periods became. Menstruation needs to be normalised and dealt with appropriately when problematic.

Agree Shangrila. It needs to be treated the same as any other illness and treated properly.

Hopefully I've signed us up... It didn't confirm receipt or anything... Should it have done?

If it’s delivered every month then people with cycles shorter than 30 days are going to get out of phase. On a 28 day cycle you have 13 periods a year, not 12.