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Background
Some of the best information we have is from the Museum of Menstruation, a website devoted to the cultural significance of women's periods. Women's sanitary products as we know it were invented fairly recently; the first women's disposable pad hit the market in 1896, manufactured by Johnson & Johnson and called Lister's Towels. What women did before this is not always clear, but here are some probable theories.
Homemade Tampons
According to Nancy Friedman, author of "Everything You Must Know About Tampons," the ancient Egyptians used soft papyrus tampons as early as the 15th century B.C. Japanese women also favored paper tampons, while the Romans used wool. It's probably that tampons were used only by women of the upper-class or by prostitutes who doubled tampons as birth control devices.
Homemade Napkins
It's very likely that most women fashioned their own sanitary napkins from whatever they had handy; paper, cotton, grasses, leaves and fur. Homemade sanitary napkins used by our ancestors have recently made a comeback to thanks to eco-consciousness and frugality; many sites now teach women how to make their own reusable napkins (see Resources).
Menstrual Aprons
As recently as the early 20th century, catalogs sold "menstruation aprons" that featured a belted cloth napkin attached to an apron that hung in the back (presumably to absorb spills). The Museum of Menstruation includes photographs and catalog entries of these precursors to modern sanitary products.
Nothing at All
It is believed that today there are some societies do not require women to wear any type of protection, according to the Museum of Menstruation. This limits what women are able to do during that time of the month. In some parts of India and Africa, women do not have access to sanitary devices and therefore stay at home during their periods and bleed into their underwear or right on the ground.
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Through the ages women have used different forms of menstrual protection.[1][2] Menstrual pads have been mentioned as early as the 10th century, in the Suda, where Hypatia, who lived in the 4th century AD, was said to have thrown one of her used menstrual rags at an admirer in an attempt to turn him off.[3] The Museum of Menstruation has articles and photos of some early forms of menstrual protection, including among other things knitted pads and menstrual aprons. Women often used strips of folded old cloth (rags) to catch their menstrual flow, which is why the term "on the rag" is used to refer to menstruation[citation needed].
Disposable menstrual pads grew from Benjamin Franklin's invention designed to save soldiers with buckshot wounds,[citation needed] but appear to have been first commercially available from around 1888 with the Southall's pad.[4] The first commercially available American disposable napkins were Lister's Towels created by Johnson & Johnson in 1896. Disposable pads had their start with nurses using their wood pulp bandages to catch their menstrual flow, creating a pad that was made from easily obtainable materials and inexpensive enough to throw away after use.[5] Kotex's first advertisement for products made with this wood pulp (Cellucotton) appeared in 1921.[6] Several of the first disposable pad manufacturers were also manufacturers of bandages, which could give an indication of what these products were like.
Until disposable sanitary pads were created, cloth or reusable pads were widely used to collect menstrual blood. Women often used a variety of home-made menstrual pads which they crafted from various fabrics, leftover scraps, grass, or other absorbent materials, to collect menstrual blood.[1] Many probably used nothing at all.[7] Even after disposable pads were commercially available, for several years they were too expensive for many women to afford.[8] When they could be afforded, women were allowed to place money in a box so that they would not have to speak to the clerk and take a box of Kotex pads from the counter themselves.[6] It took several years for disposable menstrual pads to become commonplace. However, they are now used nearly exclusively in most of the industrialized world.[8]
The first of the disposable pads were generally in the form of a cotton wool or similar fibrous rectangle covered with an absorbent liner. The liner ends were extended front and back so as to fit through loops in a special girdle or belt worn beneath undergarments. This design was notorious for slipping either forward or back of the intended position.
Later an adhesive strip was placed on the bottom of the pad for attachment to the saddle of the panties, and this became a favoured method with women. The belted sanitary napkin quickly became unavailable after the mid-1980s.
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