Kotex is keeping it real. The feminine hygiene product brand has debuted a new ad using a realistic-looking red liquid to represent period blood, instead of the blue-colored liquid that has been used ...

Surprise — periods are not blue. In a new ad campaign making its rounds on social media, U.S.-based U by Kotex posted a new advertising campaign for pads featuring red liquid instead of the ...

As a man without a functioning uterus (I believe this is the second time I’ve begun a post on Jezebel.com with those words), I couldn’t possibly begin to imagine what the monthly process of ...

“How do I feel about my period? I love it!” That's the opening line from Kotex's 2010 "So Obnoxious" ad, which you might remember. The satirical ad features "a believably attractive 18-to-24-year-old ...

Talk about a hard sell. The marketing of what are delicately known as women’s sanitary products has long posed a problem for manufacturers. How do you sell what you can’t talk about? The first ...

Cellucotton, the material used to make Kotex sanitary pads, was used in World War 1 hospitals as a bandage. Nurses quickly found another use for it. Library of Congress Editor's Note, November 9, 2018 ...

"I wish someone would tell me what Kotex is." So said a bemused young American man at a dinner party in the 1920s. Nobody would, of course. Kotex was a code word - an arcane reference to something ...