Since then, sanitary napkins have quickly become women's best friends. It is said that the first advertisement for disposable sanitary napkins was launched by American bandage manufacturers.
In China, many women still have the memory of not having sanitary napkins in their girlhood: menstrual belts that can never be cleaned and thick folded menstrual paper, and there are always a few days every month, so you should be very careful when lying, sitting, getting up and walking.
"15 years ago, when I first saw sanitary napkins, I was shocked!" Deya, 30, said: "Menstruation can be so refreshing, convenient and even so luxurious!"
Nowadays, sanitary napkins have become a common commodity in our lives, and their convenience and thoughtfulness are unimaginable to women in the past. From rough to delicate, from helplessness to autonomy, from inferiority to pride, from bondage to freedom, sanitary napkins tell the cycle and story of women.
The origin of tampons can be traced back to 1929, and its inventor is Dr. Earl Cleveland Haas of the United States. Dr. Haas is an ordinary doctor. He spends most of his spare time on inventions. At that time, Dr. Haas's wife felt that the use of thick sanitary napkins for external use brought a lot of inconvenience, which made Dr. Haas sprout the idea of doing something for his wife. In surgery, doctors or nurses often use cotton or gauze to absorb bleeding. Dr Haas applied this practice to the use of menstrual hygiene products for women. He invented the first built-in tampon in the world. Dr. Haas's invention was patented by 1933, and it was named "TAMPAX". Soon, the American market began to sell Tan bicks tampons for internal medicine, and Dan bicks brand was also famous as the first brand of internal medicine.
In BC 1550, it was recorded in Egypt that soft cloth was put into women's vagina to prevent pregnancy. Experts infer that these soft cloths are also used to cope with menstruation, which is probably the first generation of "sanitary napkins" as we know them.
Modern sanitary napkins are said to have been invented by an American man who loves his wife very much. He happened to find that wrapping clean cotton fibers and absorbent paper pulp with soft cloth as long cotton pads can effectively alleviate the pain and inconvenience of his wife's menstrual period. This kind of cotton pad became popular in Europe and America in the 1940s, and gradually developed into a disposable material.