Later Kotex tampons: Fibs (started 1930s)
and Comfortube
(1967).
See more Kotex items: First ad
(1921; scroll to bottom of page) - ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck
catalog) - Lee
Miller ads (first real person in a
menstrual 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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Nunap and fax: the first
Kotex menstrual tampons?
(early-to-mid 1930s, U.S.A.)
The instructions
The Procter & Gamble
company generously donated the
Nunap box to the museum as part
of a larger gift;
and a woman living near Chicago,
who wanted to remain anonymous,
gave the museum the fax box as
well as many other early tampon
items.
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Below:
The Nunap
instructions
- front and back of a
folded piece of paper,
the next two pictures,
below - say that
Cellucotton, which Kotex
was made of, comprise
the tampon "body," today
called the plug.
About 7 years
previously Kotex put
an address
on an ad that was
about 6 minutes away
by car today from
the location here.
As a
smattering of fact
the
addresses for
Moderne Woman,
Nunap and fax
tampons are all
within 9-15
minutes driving
distance of each
other - today,
anyway. Kotex
was in the air!
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Above:
I enlarged this side to
allow reading of the
text on the right.
Twenty-four hours is
not how long a woman
should wear a tampon
today, and reflect the
supposed lack of bad
effects noticed by users
and doctors.
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Below are the fax
instructions, printed on both
sides of the two paper envelopes
containing five tampons each in
the box.
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Below:
The fax
instructions, which are on both
sides of the package. See their
color in the lower-most picture.
Item 6 reveals that the tampon is
made of cellulose, which is what
Cellucotton - the K-C creation for
Kotex - was.
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Look at the color
of the text and bag, below, which
age might have changed.
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