Just wondering what ladies thought of Tampax and Peral tampons?
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The toxic shock syndrome scandal of the 1980's actually was a brand called Beyond who is not in business anymore, and was owned by Procter & Gamble (but Tampax WAS NOT owned by P&G at that point!!!)
Tampax (being a commercial brand) only uses rayon and cotton as absorbent materials which is stated right on the package for an consumer to read and if the consumer follows the instructions on the package as stated there is no extraordinary risk of TSS. The chemicals that are used to bleach the tampons are not applied in the tampon manufacturing process. They are applied form the supplier and this is because consumers prefer a white product vs. the natural yellow tint of cotton. There is NO secondary effect of increasing absorbency by bleaching cotton- in fact it would decrease absorbency because the cotton would have to absorb the bleach. Other leading manufacturers do bleach their product unless they are specifically listed as a "natural" product.
You then have the environmental cost, manufacturing and bleaching both create waste and pollution on top of that which is already created in the use of disposable menstrual options. There is no more cost to this process than there is to create a douche or sanitary pad. Pads are bleached as well and douches use far more chemicals in their process than tampon companies ever dreamed of.
Health and environmental costs aside you also have of course actual cost, luxury items of course being highly priced but I feel that Tampax are the better known brand and so take advantage of this by charging ludicrous prices.- Tampax cost no more than other leading brands (ie Playtex or OB)- and women are willing to pay a little more for the quality and comfort that using a trusted brand name will give them.
Perhaps most of all there is the social cost, Tampax have a wonderful habit of giving 'girl talks' at schools telling girls they have to use either tampons or pads, but tampons are more grown up of course so they should use tampons – these talks in the past have nothing to do with P&G as a company "pitting" brands against each other. P&G acquired the Tampax name in the late 1990's and why would they pit a tampon product they own against a pad product they also own as well??? This makes NO SENSE as a business.
I felt that I had to respond to the previous entries as a WELL INFORMED consumer instead of someone who has a handful of mislead ideals that they are imposing on the general public. I highly recommend ANY woman (or girl) who is choosing a feminine protection product to consult with your female family members and doctor to decide what is best FOR you and not what youqa.com readers think of a general brand!
I love them.
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