There are options for all types of flows. And you've got products with different fits. To help you narrow down your options, we've rounded up some of the best brands based on editors' picks and customer reviews.
Take a look at our choices for the best tampon brands below. Tampax might have been one of your first introductions to tampons. It's still a go-to for me. What we love about the brand is that there are so many options, like its Pearl, Radiant, and cardboard lines. And the brand has a tampon for every type of flow: light, regular, super, super plus, and ultra.
What the reviews say: "I have tried every tampon in the market, and these are the best. I basically hemorrhage gallons of blood during every menstrual cycle and used to need two tampons at a time along with a maxi pad. Ever since I discovered these tampons, I only need one at a time! Thank you Tampax Pearl for your super absorbency! You make my time of the month something to look forward to!
They aren't as absorbent as my other ones, but that's an okay trade-off to not be putting stuff soaked in who knows what up me for a week. They are pretty similar to regular Tampax except these need a little liner with them for me to feel safe. But I generally have a heavy flow anyways. These are much preferred as I try to be organic in as many ways as possible.
This is a product I use so often, and literally for days on end, but it never crossed my mind that they may be made with harmful chemicals! They are still bleached and are single-use, but they're a good alternative to a menstrual cup when I don't feel like dealing with it or have to deal with public bathrooms so I don't want to rinse it.
The Honey Pot Company's founder Bea Dixon started her company when she was having trouble remedying her bacterial vaginosis. The brand's feminine-care products are natural, plant-based, biodegradable, cruelty-free, clinically tested, and gynecologist-approved. In addition to tampons, The Honey Pot Company also has feminine washes and wipes, menstrual cups, and pads in its lineup.
What the reviews say: "I love all things Honey Pot. The tampons are fantastic with no leaking. I also bleed much less now that I've switch over to Honey Pot for all feminine care. I support natural tampons made by people with vaginas.
I'm not sure but I love all of the Honey Pot products. I can't imagine using anything else now. For every product bought, Cora provides pads and health education to girls and women around the world. Its tampons are made of organic cotton and have a BPA-free plastic applicator. They also have a unique design that expands width-wise to fit your body, so you don't have to worry about leaks. The brand also offers pads, menstrual cups, period underwear, and a feminine wash.
What the reviews say: "First time trying Cora products, and they have been great so far. The packaging is very nice, but more importantly, I feel good about putting something in my body that does not have harsh chemicals. I have a very heavy flow the first few days, and these were good and absorbent. I am going to try their pads next. These are products that are more expensive, but I don't mind since I only use them monthly. For me, there was still some leaking, but that has been the case for almost every tampon I've tried, organic or not.
These are nice. If other organic tampons haven't worked well, give these a try! Playtex is another "starter" brand you might have used when you first got your period. But ever since I became a wellness editor, I started to get more curious about all the different feminine-care products out there. In recent years, so many more startups and brands have been in the spotlight.
It's pretty exciting that there are so many options now, especially since our bodies are all so different. Something that works for me might not be comfortable for you. Particularly in the tampon department, there have been some noteworthy advancements. There are a lot more nontoxic choices. There are options for all types of flows. And you've got products with different fits. To help you narrow down your options, we've rounded up some of the best brands based on editors' picks and customer reviews.
Take a look at our choices for the best tampon brands below. Tampax might have been one of your first introductions to tampons. It's still a go-to for me. What we love about the brand is that there are so many options, like its Pearl, Radiant, and cardboard lines. And the brand has a tampon for every type of flow: light, regular, super, super plus, and ultra. What the reviews say: "I have tried every tampon in the market, and these are the best.
I basically hemorrhage gallons of blood during every menstrual cycle and used to need two tampons at a time along with a maxi pad. Ever since I discovered these tampons, I only need one at a time! Thank you Tampax Pearl for your super absorbency! You make my time of the month something to look forward to!
They aren't as absorbent as my other ones, but that's an okay trade-off to not be putting stuff soaked in who knows what up me for a week. They are pretty similar to regular Tampax except these need a little liner with them for me to feel safe. But I generally have a heavy flow anyways. These are much preferred as I try to be organic in as many ways as possible. This is a product I use so often, and literally for days on end, but it never crossed my mind that they may be made with harmful chemicals!
They are still bleached and are single-use, but they're a good alternative to a menstrual cup when I don't feel like dealing with it or have to deal with public bathrooms so I don't want to rinse it. The Honey Pot Company's founder Bea Dixon started her company when she was having trouble remedying her bacterial vaginosis. The brand's feminine-care products are natural, plant-based, biodegradable, cruelty-free, clinically tested, and gynecologist-approved.
In addition to tampons, The Honey Pot Company also has feminine washes and wipes, menstrual cups, and pads in its lineup. What the reviews say: "I love all things Honey Pot. The tampons are fantastic with no leaking. I also bleed much less now that I've switch over to Honey Pot for all feminine care.
I support natural tampons made by people with vaginas. I'm not sure but I love all of the Honey Pot products. I can't imagine using anything else now. For every product bought, Cora provides pads and health education to girls and women around the world. Its tampons are made of organic cotton and have a BPA-free plastic applicator.
They also have a unique design that expands width-wise to fit your body, so you don't have to worry about leaks. The brand also offers pads, menstrual cups, period underwear, and a feminine wash.
What the reviews say: "First time trying Cora products, and they have been great so far. The packaging is very nice, but more importantly, I feel good about putting something in my body that does not have harsh chemicals.
I have a very heavy flow the first few days, and these were good and absorbent. I am going to try their pads next. These are products that are more expensive, but I don't mind since I only use them monthly.
For me, there was still some leaking, but that has been the case for almost every tampon I've tried, organic or not. These are nice. If other organic tampons haven't worked well, give these a try! Playtex is another "starter" brand you might have used when you first got your period.
That's because its tampons are so easy to use and comfortable. The Sport versions are especially key if you're swimming, working out, or just doing something really active. It stays in place and absorbs really well, so you can focus on what you're doing.
Mounting political energy consolidated into various campaigning groups: in , Gabby Edlin founded Bloody Good Period to help refugee women access period products, and in early , the Red Box Project launched its campaign for free period products in schools. It won: as of 20 January this year, the government will provide menstrual products to all schools and colleges across the country.
Protests against sales taxes on period products spread rapidly — Australia and Germany, among others, have either reduced or eliminated the tax.
So far, beneficiaries have included an anti-abortion charity, eliciting a new wave of protest. In a final symbolic flourish, late last year, a period emoji in the form of a crimson droplet was finally added to the iPhone menu. In the midst of this newly charged menstrual atmosphere, period startups multiplied, selling products ranging from organic cotton tampons Lola, Cora, Flo to absorbent pants Thinx, Modibodi to a reusable applicator Dame. All proclaim their high ethical standards.
Tampax has had to play catch-up. Always had already launched its LikeAGirl advertising campaign in , which revealed that girls can, in fact, do everything. Tampax updated its products too, launching, in , its first organic cotton tampon and, in the US only, its first menstrual cup in None of the startups and campaigners I spoke to were convinced. And we all know who won that one. F or a startup to successfully dismantle the Tampax empire, it needs an industry-changing idea.
Daye, founded in , believes it has it. Its innovation, freshly launched, is a pain-relieving, CBD-infused, biodegradable cotton tampon, a phrase that could have sprung from some kind of Silicon Valley word association game. Daye is like a startup created in a lab, a model of contemporary entrepreneurialism. There is an office in a converted biscuit factory in Bermondsey. Biscuits becoming CBD tampons is a fairly succinct summary of the history of British business.
And there is a highly ambitious growth strategy. Daye currently has about 15, customers. After learning about the properties of industrial hemp, she created various products at home, before hitting on the idea of coating tampons in CBD oil.
Back in , when she was pitching to investors, Milanova encountered attitudes ranging from awkward to stunningly ignorant. One wondered why she was putting 18 tampons in a subscription box, given that he had never known a woman have a period for 18 days. Milanova had originally wanted to attract an all-female investor base, but quickly realised this was unlikely.
The two leading ones, I was told in hushed tones, are in Slovenia and Spain. The secrecy is not unusual — all companies protect manufacturing information. A Swiss manufacturing firm called Ruggli has a near-monopoly on tampon-making machines, so almost every new-brand tampon, whatever its particular design or added feature, is a Ruggli tampon.
T he Ruggli factory sits on the edge of Koblenz, a small Swiss town on the banks of the Rhine. More than 40 people work in the white-block facility adjoining a field which, on a recent afternoon, stank of manure. In the lobby, there was a sunken rhombus-shaped pit brimming with tens of thousands of tampons.
The equivalent of a menstrual ball pit is not the only surprising interior decor decision at Ruggli. Maliqi is the kind of tampon-engineering enthusiast who, ahead of my arrival, had neatly laid out a long row of tampons next to the sandwiches on the boardroom table. He was keen to showcase the full suite of tampons that Ruggli machines can make, and kept leaping to his feet to draw on a whiteboard the minor variations they create for different brands: tampons with holes in the head, tampons with wavy grooves to draw the blood down the tampon , tampons with blue lines.
When I asked him what the blue lines were for, he adopted an expression that suggested there was not a great deal he could say on behalf of their utility. There is, after all, only so much you can do with a wad of cotton and rayon.
A Ruggli machine will last for many years, a resilient piece of hardware that is the opposite of the disposable, mass-volume product it makes. Its clients include multinationals who own multiple machines that run 24 hours a day and shoot out tampons a minute. On the factory floor, I was introduced to a finished tampon machine, in the process of being tested.
At one end, a ribbon of white fabric and a spool of string were being fed into the machine, while at the other end, fully fledged, plastic-wrapped, applicator-fitted tampons were popping out and being closely inspected by a serious man wearing a black Vans T-shirt, black jeans and heavy boots. Everyone on the factory floor, I realised, was a man.
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