See early tampoms Dale, Wix and B-ettes and a bunch of other earlier ones.
See San-Nap-Pak sanitary napkin ads from 1932 and 1945 and Ads for teenagers. See the roughly contemporary Cashay tampon, box, instructions. (Procter & Gamble donation, 2001), and
Dale (U.S.A., 1930s?-1940s?) Tampons, box, instructions. (Procter & Gamble donation, 2001)
And, of course, the first Tampax AND - special for you! - the American fax tampon, from the early 1930s, which also came in bags.
See a Modess True or False? ad in The American Girl magazine, January 1947, and actress Carol Lynley in "How Shall I Tell My Daughter" booklet ad (1955) - Modess . . . . because ads (many dates)
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Cashay tampons (1930s-1940s?, U.S.A.)
Box

In general, American menstrual products companies avoid putting red on their products in what seems to be exaggerated delicacy, but the Cashay folks did not (likewise for the Sa-tips company). Blue was a big favorite for early companies - both the leaders Tampax and Kotex, in America, used blue - and the blue fluid demonstrating how their products work has attained advertising immortality. (An expert commented on menstrual blue in a famous 1927 report.)

See the tampons and instructions.
Procter & Gamble kindly donated the box and contents as part of a gift of scores of menstrual products.

 

Someone, probably from the Tampax company, wrote in pencil on the box, "Purchased from J. J. Newberry Co. - Cincinnati Ohio. 10¢ [twice]"
As with Secret tampons, from about the same time, nothing on or inside the box tells how many tampons are inside (3)!

 

Side of the box: Many American tampons, through the 1950s, at least, emphasized the lack of pins and belts with tampons, most famously Tampax, the market leader through most of its history.
On the end flap we read, "Out of sight - out of mind."


See the tampons and instructions.

See San-Nap-Pak sanitary napkin ads from 1932 and 1945 and Ads for teenagers. See the roughly contemporary Dale tampon, and very early Tampax and fax.
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