Feminine care products including tampons, pads, feminine washes, sprays, powders, and personal wipes is a multi billion industry, the companies marketing these
products do not have your best interests in their minds, as they choose the worst quality ingredients for maximum and never ending profits.
Feminine hygiene products may use ingredients that are known or suspected endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), carcinogens, or allergens. And while nearly all women use tampons and sanitary pads , most of them use douches, wipes, powders, putting them at greater risk of potential chemical exposures.
Female sex organs evolved to be self-cleaning. The vaginal canal is richly endowed with blood vessels and produces mucus that protects against and washes away harmful microorganisms. As a mucous membrane, the vagina is capable of secreting and absorbing fluids at a higher rate than skin, without metabolizing them, exposes women to higher levels of chemicals from feminine hygiene products than manufacturers intend.
Tampons: Hazardous ingredients may include dioxins
and furans (from the chlorine bleaching process),
pesticide residues and unknown fragrance chemicals.
Exposure concerns include cancer, reproductive harm,
endocrine disruption, and allergic rash.
Pads: Hazardous ingredients may include dioxins and
furans, pesticide residues, unknown fragrance chemicals,
and adhesive chemicals such as methyldibromo
glutaronitrile. Exposure concerns include cancer,
reproductive harm, and endocrine disruption. Studies
link pad use to allergic rash.
Feminine Wipes: Hazardous ingredients may include
Methylchloroisothiazolinone, Methylisothiazolinone,
parabens, quaternium-15, DMDM Hydantoin and
unknown fragrance chemicals. Exposure concerns
include cancer and endocrine disruption. Studies link
wipe use to allergic rash.
Feminine Wash: Hazardous ingredients may
include unknown fragrance chemicals, parabens,
Methylchloroisothiazolinone, Methylisothiazolinone,
DMDM Hydantoin, D&C Red No.33, Ext D&C Violet
#2, and FD&C Yellow #5. Exposure concerns include
endocrine disruption, allergic rash, and asthma.
Douche: Hazardous ingredients may include unknown
fragrance chemicals and the spermicide Octoxynol-9.
Studies link douche use to bacterial vaginosis, pelvic
inflammatory disease, cervical cancer, low-birth weight,
preterm birth, HIV transmission, sexually transmitted
diseases, ectopic pregnancy, chronic yeast infections,
and infertility.
Feminine deodorant (sprays , powders and
suppositories): Hazardous ingredients may include
unknown fragrance chemicals, parabens, and
Benzethonium Chloride. Exposure concerns include
reproductive harm, endocrine disruption and allergic rash.
Feminine anti-itch creams: Hazardous ingredients
may include unknown fragrance chemicals, parabens,
Methylisothiazolinone and an active ingredient,
benzocaine, a mild anesthetic. Exposure concerns
include endocrine disruption, allergic rash, and
unresolved itch.
Go for organic cotton pads and avoid tampons as they are too harsh and scrape the delicate vaginal environment, menstrual blood is supposed to nourish the passage ways and flow outside, putting tampons may also increase the risk of toxic shock syndrome.
Use Organic cotton, bleach free and toxin free products, my go to is
http://www.natracare.com/products/
