Without the shadow of a doubt, sanitary pads are now the most common and most widely used means of menstrual protection. Let us now how a closer look at the origins and history of sanitary pads.
Wikipedia informs us that sanitary pads were mentioned in some written text as early as in the tenth century in the Suda, where one of the protagonists, Hypatia was said to have thrown one of her sanitary pads at one of her admirer. Nevertheless, disposable sanitary pads as we now have today, were first introduced by Benjamin Franklin as a means of protecting soldiers’ wounds during the war. To be more precise, disposable sanitary pads had their beginnings with nurses using their wood pulp so as to catch the menstrual flow, creating a pad that was made from the easy-to-get materials that were inexpensive enough to be thrown away after having been used. Until these disposable sanitary pads were invented, cloth or reusable pads were widely used to collect the menstrual blood. Women used to use a great variety of home-made sanitary pads which were manufactured from fabrics, leftover scraps, grass or hay. And even when the disposable menstrual pads were available on the market, they were too expensive for women to afford.
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