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

Standard Insight T&Cs apply

ONE teabag and ONE piece of chocolate? Wow, don't put yourselves out there or anything, folks.

Also you keep banging on about how your packaging is recyclABLE, but what would be far better for the environment is if it were recyclED.

I want to give it a go!! By the way I would like to remind MNHQ I never did get my Moshi Monster pack!!!!

Applied! Fingers crossed!

What a load of awful, useless, patronising pants the products are. The worst thing I've seen since scented sanitary products.

Me (37) and DD (15) would love to do this. Always been intrigued by these loot boxes so fingers crossed

😂 at the unintentional hilariousness of this thread!
If I needed a special box each month to remind me that I’m a special snowflake because I bleed, I should like it to please contain:

2kg chocolate

Nope. That’s all.

Because we need to raise our game a bit here. Instead of ‘removing the taboo’ by removing the need to go and buy sanpro, perhaps we should be encouraging our children to consume less shite because bleeding....again?

Actual period essentials:
Hot water bottle (don’t need a new one each month)
Painkillers (now if these were included I’d be interested)
Decent pads or tampons that will at least biodegrade.

Things we don’t need:
More disposable ‘miscellaneous’ stuff eg stickers and biros.
More packaging.
The idea that periods are so special and secret that anything needed to deal with them is delivered to the house to stop the embarrassment of buying in store.
Scented sanpro. All we are teaching our daughters is that they need to be highly perfumed at all times, like an air freshener.

If there is a "stigma" or a "taboo" about menstruation (both words used by the marketing team, here or on other websites), or if our daughters are embarrassed about the purchase of menstruation products, then the best way to tackle that is by demonstrating to our daughters that it is the most normal thing in the world to go to the shops and purchase such products without embarrassment.
And given PinkBetty's claim that chocolate can help blood loss I'm pretty cynical about how much research has gone into seeing whether all the packaging is recyclable or not.

DailyMailFORN industrial strength air freshener at that, akin to having an air wick solid stuffed in your pants.
I do have a theory that perhaps there's something in modern towels That creates an odour that has to be disguised and that it's cheaper for the manufacturers to disguise it using "fragrances" than by removing the odour - hence their keenness to introduce fragrances and o most of their products and not to make it clear on the packaging which are and which are not smell free.
PinkBetty people - can you enlighten us? I'm guessing you're owned by the same people who manufacture the towels?

Signed up, thanks :)

If you want to go online and order some lovely things to cheer up your period then you could try one of these...

Imsevimse

fairy hammocks

Jack Skellington!

starter pack

It's like some sort of consumer hell has been entered....

I think we need to remember that mumsnet is often a self selecting audience. We may not feel there is a taboo or be embarrassed about buying towels and tampons but some women and girls are. We may take our period in our stride and get on with it but it dominates the lives of some women for various reasons.
There are frequently threads here asking what to do to support teens with difficult periods. As a concept, the teen box in particular may really help some girls.
Completely agree about ruddy scented towels though. WTF is that about? I'm forced to use Always Infinity to escape that. They are more expensive than other products. Are they included in the box I wonder?

Tons of women aren’t confident enough to buy their products from the shop

So we rip them off by charging so much more for basic products...

Love to try this one please x

JessicaEccles - spot on! As I said upthread, my DD pointed out you could get 6 boxes of towels for £12.99.

And are grown women really embarrassed about purchasing them in store? What happens if their PinkBettyPamper box goes missing in the post?

"their tampons and pads delivered in sync with their period"

Yeah it's almost as if shops don't exist and we can't already buy triple the amount of product for a fraction of the price.

Bloody hell what a waste of money.

Still waiting for the evidence for the claims for chocolate and herbal tea. Or the admission that it is nonsense and the person concerned has been sent to science classes.

I would also be interested to know how much of their packaging is recycled (including the packaging of products inside) as opposed to being recyclable?

I really thought this was a spoof when I saw it. Face palm ...

This looks like a much better idea: www.positive.news/2018/lifestyle/health/31139/new-organic-sanitary-subscription-service-pledges-to-help-tackle-period-poverty-around-the-world/

But Wren it's not pink - how can us girls align with a product like that?

That looks like a much more world-friendly product, Wren, thanks for sharing!

The idea that women are too embarrassed or to stupid to remember to buy sanpro and need it posted out to them is hilarious. Even if we didn't have a 24 hour tesco that delivers our groceries (and sanpro) within 5 minutes drive, how about buying an extra pack of tampons and pads at the end of your period for next time.
Even my exh was totally unfazed about buying sanpro for me. I just don't believe anyone cares these days.
I like the link to the ethical sanpro though, thanks for that.

This puts it well.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2015/mar/09/why-do-women-need-period-packs