Get Real Beauty :: Author Jude Grimm

Pretty in Pink

I was amazed when a friend told me that a family just moving here from Thailand purchased a box of tampons and put them on display in there home because they had thought the box was so pretty. If we think pretty is…is pretty does than this is a classic display of American marketing and know how. The choices for biodegradable shampoo are merely 5% of what is currently on the market for consumers to choose from to make healthy conscientious choices. The choices for non polluting feminine hygiene products are about 1%. That means that 99% of the products offered to women on a daily basis are chlorine bleached (that releases dioxin), filled with rayon (made from processed wood fiber), polyester, polyethylene, polysorbate 20 and phthalates from the artificial fragrance that are made to adhere to our skin. A woman uses over 10,000 tampons in her female experience of life and it’s amazing how are choices are pretty much made around the design of the box and the message of marketing. The only two companies that I currently know of that are made from organic cotton and chlorine free are Seventh Generation and Natracare. Women’s feminine organ diseases are on the rise. There are some critical links to what we choose to consume both internally and externally. Think twice the next time you are standing in front of the tampon aisle and ask yourself really how pretty is this product and would I consider putting it into my mouth? Women, it’s the same thing!