Menstrual Hygiene Day is celebrated globally every year to educate people about the importance of menstrual hygiene, remove the stigma around it, encourage more open conversations, and make products more accessible for every woman. To do our bit and celebrate it this year, we thought of bringing to your notice some of the homegrown labels… Continue reading Homegrown Labels That You Can Turn To For Menstrual Hygiene Products
There seems to be a sudden burst of variety in products for the five days that you bleed—sustainable pads, tampons with applicators, pain relief patches and roll-ons, menstrual cups, and so much more. In the last couple of months, I gave a few new things a try. My periods are a tad heavy, with few… Continue reading #ELLERecommends: I Tried 7 Period Products From Homegrown Brands And Here’s How It Helped Me
The blessed amongst us get their periods like clockwork every month, and it’s just a normal part of life, but for many it also brings along mood swings, severe pain, and PMS symptoms. Several women visit me with complaints of zits and rosacea flares triggered by hormonal imbalances as well. While in-clinic treatments and products… Continue reading What are your PMS symptoms telling you?
In my eternal quest for things that make me feel better on my period, (apart from a tub of chocolate chip ice-cream and a sappy rom-com), I’ve tried a number of feminine care and hygiene products. And here are the results (that no one asked for, but that you will appreciate nonetheless–especially if your period… Continue reading Five products that’ll make your period better
Here’s an unsurprising and completely not-fun fact about period myths : For most of history, the people who researched and made big declarations about periods were men who weren’t having periods themselves. If you’re familiar with the concept of “sexism,” you can probably guess how bad and dumb this was. The result was women hearing a lot… Continue reading 10 bizarre period myths women were told throughout history
Once upon a time, keeping tracking of your periods was simply a case of marking a red dot in your diary and hoping it came around the same time the next month. But these days, thanks to technology, it’s easier than ever to track your cycle. And it’s worth it, too. From boosting your sex life… Continue reading 6 surprising benefits of tracking your periods
Although we know that menstrual cramps/period pain/whatever you choose to call it, can feel like you’re being repeatedly punched in the stomach from the inside out, explaining this to other people (read: generally, men) can feel like a lost cause. Worried about being dismissively diagnosed by co-workers and friends with female ‘conditions’ such as being… Continue reading Doctors have finally ruled menstrual cramps as painful as heart attacks
Over half of us count periods as a part of our lives, and yet it’s still a taboo to talk about them. Most of us still only murmur about ‘that time of month’ and hide our tampax in our pockets on the way to the office lavatory. Attitudes to this natural bodily function remain stuck… Continue reading Finally, a mainstream Bollywood movie that addresses menstruation
Sex doesn’t always end in glowing skin and a cigarette. The painful truth is that sometimes it hurts. Not the good kind of pain but the straight up,”do people actually do this for fun?” kind of pain. A study found that 30% of women experience pain during sex for a variety of reasons, from endometriosis… Continue reading 5 reasons women find sex painful. And how to solve it
Women, this is the sanitary pad ad of your dreams: so deeply repressed in your subconscious by the infuriatingly saccharine blue-stained, white and flowery fare you were watching all this while, that you didn’t know this was what you wanted until you saw it. This advertisement, created for Bodyform’s Red.fit campaign by London agency AMV BBDO, for once… Continue reading Finally a sanitary pad advertisement done right!
