Tamponian &
other oddities & comedies:
LOX theatrical
tampons
Never in America:
Ad with talking
tampons compared with penises
Tampons "For the
Woman of Charm"
Origami tampons
from Japan
Anne, named for Anne Frank of diary
fame
Anna menstrual sponge:
the inventor's wife's name was on each
user's lips, according to her grandson.
Vulvar deodorant
system
Menu with
tampons
See also Ads for
Teens
Booklets
menstrual hygiene companies made for girls,
women and teachers - patent
medicine - a list
of books and articles about menstruation
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The Museum of Menstruation and
Women's Health
Primella
tampons (Switzerland?,
1969)
In this museum the Swiss
possibly made two tampon
contributions, Primella and Sanpax,
an odd tampon that possibly never
made it to store shelves.
At first I thought Primella was
Tampax in disguise but as you'll
see there are differences,
possibly to avoid patent
conflicts.
And nothing declares patent or
trademark information nor even who
made it or where. Based on the
three languages in the
instructions, German, French and
Italian, I figured the Swiss made
it. That source of all knowledge
and wisdom, Google, located a
Primella ad in Le Journal du Sud
Bourgeois for 14 April 2009,
published in Switzerland, so it
probably does come from that
country.
And it's alive today!
Tamponian
& other oddities &
comedies:
LOX
theatrical tampons
Never in
America: Ad with
talking tampons compared with
penises
Tampons
"For the Woman of Charm"
Origami
tampons from Japan
Anne,
Japanese 'pon named for Anne Frank
of diary fame
Anna
menstrual sponge: the
inventor's wife's name was on each
user's lips, according to her
grandson.
Vulvar
deodorant system
Menu with
tampons
I thank Tambrands, the former
maker of Tampax, for donating
the box from its archives!
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Below:
The cardboard box measures 5 3/8 x
3 1/8 x 1 1/8" (13.8 x 7.7 x 2.7
cm) and is redder
than the picture. Someone at
Tambrands, which donated the box,
typed the label.
NYO
probably means New York Office.
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Below:
The only other text on the box is
on the small
sides, which
are identical. I tried but failed
to find out what lay under the
yellow sticker.
The same curiosity made me start
this museum.
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