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.
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Below:
The back is
blank. And
the company did not avoid red.
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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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