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Sanitary napkins are the common name for sanitary napkins. Menstruation has been a part of women's lives since ancient times. In ancient times, women also had menstruation. Before sanitary napkins, people used strips of cloth, which were called sanitary napkins at that time. Later, when sanitary napkins came into being, people got used to calling them aunt's napkins. Next, let’s take a look at the evolution of sanitary napkins.

Sanitary napkin prototype

Egypt: Softened papyrus leaves were used as tampons. As early as 1550 BC, there were records in Egypt of putting soft cloth into women's vagina to prevent pregnancy. Experts infer that these soft cloths were also used to cope with menstruation. That was probably the first generation of "sanitary napkins" that we know of.

China: Chinese women use a long white cloth to absorb blood during menstruation and then wash it with water and alum.

Greece: It is a tampon wrapped in linen on wood.

Africa: Women in some places use soft feathers and pieces of cloth to pad their lower body, and collect the used feathers and pieces of cloth in small wooden barrels.

United States: The modern version of sanitary napkins is said to have been invented by an American man who loved his wife very much. He accidentally discovered that wrapping clean cotton fibers and absorbent paper pulp with soft cloth to make long cotton pads could effectively relieve his wife's pain and inconvenience during menstruation. This type of cotton pad became popular in Europe and the United States in the 1940s and gradually developed into a disposable material.

There is also a saying that women in ancient times did not have sanitary napkins, so women in the cave era sometimes used sea sponges or grass to make sanitary napkins.

Washable stage

In the 19th century, the "washable sanitary napkin" stage came into being. Women would put cotton wool or rags into bags to make so-called "rag bags" and use them as sanitary napkins. In addition to using rag bags, women of that era would wear a "sanitary apron" between their hips and clothes (a rubber pad the size of half an apron, with a piece of cotton cloth pinned on it, then wrapped around the waist, with the cotton cloth on the rubber pad attached to the hips and around the genitals, and then secured with safety pins or clips), so it was always very inconvenient during menstruation.

Disposable Stage

It wasn't until the First World War that "fiber cotton" was invented and added to other product applications, including disposable bandages and the products derived from them. Nurses began to use gauze, cotton cloth used in surgery, or cloth used to wrap cheese to make their own "disposable sanitary napkins", and sanitary napkins were born.

In the 20th century, some companies began to produce sanitary napkins. Women used safety pins or sanitary belts to secure sanitary napkins. (A sanitary belt is similar to a garter tied around the waist, with a belt around the genitals in the front and a belt around the hips in the back, and then a safety pin or a clip to secure the sanitary napkin.)

(Another story is that during the First World War, American nurses served in France. Those women in light white clothes were the pioneers of modern professional women. Even during menstruation, they still had to maintain their elegance, agility and competence, so they made a bold attempt on menstrual products: using bandages and medicated cotton to make the earliest sanitary napkins. The invention of sanitary napkins is undoubtedly great, and its significance is even more epoch-making. It is precisely because of this that it is hailed as one of the "Top Ten Inventions That Affected Humanity in the 20th Century.")

In 1921, the world's first disposable sanitary napkin came from Kimberly-Clark (brand "Kotex") of the United States.

In 1927, Johnson & Johnson also launched a sanitary napkin brand - Modess.

In the 1970s, the evolution of sanitary napkins made a major breakthrough, with the birth of "self-adhesive sanitary napkins".

Between 1989 and 1990, "Hao Zi Zai Butterfly Wing" and "Silky Sanitary Napkin" changed the history of sanitary napkins.