Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Bad Stuff Used In Tampons & Sanitary Pads

If you are a woman and use pads, but especially if you use tampons, read this and share it with your female friends.

Check the labels of the sanitary pads or tampons that you are going to buy the next time and see whether you spot any of the familiar signs stated here. No wonder so many women in the world suffer from cervical cancer and womb tumors. Have you heard that tampon makers include asbestos in tampons? Why would they do this?

Because asbestos makes you bleed more, if you bleed more, you're going to need to use more. Why this isn't against the law since asbestos is so dangerous? Because the powers that be, in all their wisdom (not), did not consider tampons as being ingested and, therefore, did not consider them illegal or dangerous.

This month's Essence magazine mentions 2 manufacturers of a cotton tampon alternative.


A woman getting her Ph.D. at Universityof Coloradosent quoted the following:


Recently we have learned that tampons are actually dangerous (for other reasons than TSS). After learning about this in our class, most of the females wound up feeling angry and upset with the tampon industry, and I for one, am going to do something about it. To start, I want to inform everyone I can.





The real danger comes from repeated contact (Karen Couppert "Pulling the Plug on the Tampon Industry"). I'd say using about 4-5 tampons a day, five days a month, for 38 years is "repeated contact", wouldn't you?





Using feminine hygiene products that aren't bleached and that are all cotton. Other feminine hygiene products (sanitary pads / napkins) contain dioxin as well, but they are not nearly as dangerous.


Unfortunately, there are very few companies that make these safe tampons. They are usually only found in health food stores. Countries all over the world (Sweden, Germany, British Columbia etc.) have demanded a switch to this safer tampon, while the UShas decided to keep us in the dark about it.





All the 1800 numbers are listed on the boxes.



tinytapir said...

why use disposable products at all?

Even unbleached tampons are unhealthy because they leave fluff behind and absorb fluids they shouldn't (i.e. that aren't blood)

Why don't you look into reusable options like the Mooncup menstrual cup or cloth pads?

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