Whether you’re using tampons or disposable pads, feminine hygiene products not only build up in landfills but also have a cumulative financial impact on your wallet. To save money and the environment, ...

My first reaction when I heard about the growing trend for cloth feminine hygiene products was scepticism. In the same way I could never quite get on board with reusable nappies, reusable sanitary ...

Which period panties or reusable pads are best? On average, people who menstruate will have 450 to 500 periods in their lifetimes, which equates to a huge number of tampons and pads heading to the ...

ROCKFORD -- United Women in Faith, a Rockford based women's group, has been working on their global mission project to create cloth sanitary pads for young girls in Africa. Members partnered with the ...

Emily Varnam wants to protect the environment and eschew big business, so she tries to buy local food, dresses in secondhand clothing and doesn't own a car. The 27-year-old doula also chooses her ...

The latest rage in monthly accessories is absorbent underwear that eliminates the need for any other menstrual products. THINX has recently emerged with in-your-face ads, seeking to bring attention ...

Teenagers in a Ugandan village would skip school every month because they didn't have sanitary pads. A new project called AFRIpads is starting to... How do you cut the school dropout rate for girls in ...

MUTASA DISTRICT, Zimbabwe, July 19 (Reuters) - A community group in rural Zimbabwe is making reusable sanitary towels so that girls do not skip school when they have their period. The Chiedza ...

Radhika Dhingra’s Badlaav NGO, founded in 2019, began with sanitary waste management but has evolved into addressing period ...

Editor’s Note: Ira Trivedi is a best-selling author, journalist and activist. She lives in New Delhi, India. The opinions expressed here are solely those of the author. Sanitary pads, an essential ...