Kotex sells its pads in early vending machines. See a Kotex pad sold in a 1930s vending machine.
See some pad dispensers and ads for pads that come with pouches: New Freedom and Whenever, from the U.S.A., and Camelia, from Germany.
See also the booklets How shall I tell my daughter? (Modess, various dates), Growing up and liking it (Modess, various dates), and Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1928).
And read Lynn Peril's series about these and similar booklets!
See more Kotex items: First ad (1921) - ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck catalog) - Lee Miller ads (first real person in amenstrual hygiene ad, 1928) - Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (booklet for girls, 1928, Australian edition; there are many links here to Kotex items) - Preparing for Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls; Australian edition) - 1920s booklet in Spanish showing disposal method - box from about 1969 - "Are you in the know?" ads (Kotex) (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) - See more ads on the Ads for Teenagers main page
CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
Some MUM site links:
homepageMUM address & What does MUM mean? | e-mail the museum | privacy on this site | who runs this museum?? |
Amazing women! | the art of menstruation | artists (non-menstrual) | asbestos | belts | bidets | founder bio | Bly, Nellie | MUM board | books: menstruation and menopause (and reviews) | cats | company booklets for girls (mostly) directory | contraception and religion | costumes | menstrual cups | cup usage | dispensers | douches, pain, sprays | essay directory | extraction | facts-of-life booklets for girls | famous women in menstrual hygiene ads | FAQ | founder/director biography | gynecological topics by Dr. Soucasaux | humor | huts | links | masturbation | media coverage of MUM | menarche booklets for girls and parents | miscellaneous | museum future | Norwegian menstruation exhibit | odor | olor | pad directory | patent medicine | poetry directory | products, current | puberty booklets for girls and parents | religion | Religi�n y menstruaci�n | your remedies for menstrual discomfort | menstrual products safety | science | Seguridad de productos para la menstruaci�n | shame | slapping, menstrual | sponges | synchrony | tampon directory | early tampons | teen ads directory | tour of the former museum (video) | underpants & panties directory | videos, films directory | Words and expressions about menstruation | Would you stop menstruating if you could? | What did women do about menstruation in the past? | washable pads
Leer la versi�n en espa�ol de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepci�n y religi�n, Breve rese�a - Olor - Religi�n y menstruaci�n - Seguridad de productos para la menstruaci�n.


The Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health

Disposal bags for sanitary napkins, page 10 (see pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11)

Dr Melissa Terras donated the bags on this and pages 9 as well as on many earlier pages.  She started these pad-bag pages on MUM by sending me disposal bags while studying for her doctorate at Christ Church, University of Oxford, and has contributed many more since then. She's now (2014) Director, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities and Professor of Digital Humanities, Department of Information Studies, University College London.

Prof. Terras writes that she collected the bags throughout Europe.

The pink cast on some bags is incorrect; all bags are white with usually colored printing.

I made all bags the same width even though they differ slightly.

Thanks again, Mel!

Read a general discussion on page 1.

Below: BOMA's website looks Dutch but the English phrase Everything for cleaning is prominent.

The back is blank. The front, below, is black and white.

See a different Boma bag.
Below: The back is blank. The front, below, is black and white.

Its U.K. website says Out of Eden is "your one stop shop for hospitality products."

The plant is the poisonous lily-of-the-valley. The odor is edenic, speaking of Eden. Wikipedia writes that "As of 2010, Bourgeonal [the lily-of-the-valley odor] is the only known odor substance to which males have a higher average sensitivity than females. ... [And] attracts mammal sperm in a dramatic manner." Yikes, what do you make of that?

See an earlier version.
Below: The back is blank. And the company did not avoid red.
Below: The back is blank.
The 03 number looks like a customer service number in the United Kingdom, but I'm not sure. I didn't dial it; I live in the U.S.A.


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