It was six months ago that Selin Celikoyar bought her last tampon and switched to a reusable menstrual disc. "I had already been wary of tampons from an environmental perspective and also from a ...

In the wake of news that some tampons have been found to contain toxic metals such as lead and arsenic, many women who menstruate find themselves asking: Now what? After all, between 52% and 85% of ...

Tampons have come a long way since their earliest uses. In the 5th century B.C., Greeks made them from lint wrapped around small pieces of wood, as noted by Hippocrates, "the father of medicine". The ...

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