What is Green Menstruation?

Green Menstruation – is "choosing to be personally responsible for your menstruation and menstrual fluids, as well as your choices in feminine hygiene products, all of which can have significant and long-term (negative) consequences on 'everyone's health' and 'everyone's environment.'"

More and more people are becoming aware of the damage and harm their personal consumer choices have on the environment, and their personal health. This has now reached the feminine hygiene markets with new choices for women who can now "go green" with their monthly menstruation flows. The net result is that with these greater choices and ability to be green with their menstruation, more and more women are, in fact, choosing "Green Menstruation" options and feminine hygiene products.

Recent trends are emerging that indicate there is a growing backlash against products that have negative and long-lasting effects on the environment, and this includes used and discarded Feminine Hygiene products that may take hundreds of years to decompose in a landfill.

And when just one woman can use as many as 12,000 pads, tampons, and pantiliners over the course of her menstruating life, that adds up to a considerable burden on our landfills and the environment. Especially when these feminine hygiene products are made from synthetic materials as opposed to materials such as organically grown cotton.

There are increasingly greater amounts of Green Menstruation products such as:

Natural Sea Sponge Tampons

Natural Sea Sponge tampons "sea sponges" that naturally grow in the oceans and can be cultivated and harvested like any "land crop." After the sea sponge reaches harvest-size, they are then harvested and are re-shaped to "vagina-size."

Natural sea sponge tampons are worn inside the vagina just like a tampon during menstruation, and they absorb the menstrual flow just like a tampon. Unlike a tampon, a natural sea sponge tampon can be reused over and over again -of course, you will want to disinfect each sea sponge tampon before re-inserting into the vagina!

Natural Sea Sponge Tampons are similar to regular tampons in that they are comfortable to wear, they work like a tampon, and have the added benefit that they will not dry out your vagina like a typical tampon will toward the end of your period.

Menstrual Cups

Menstrual Cups are small cups that are worn inside the vagina that "catch" the menstrual fluids during menstruation. There are several brands of Menstrual Cups that are made from various materials.

Instead of changing a tampon every several hours, women using Menstrual Cups simply removes the menstrual cup from their vagina by the tip, and pull it out. The best time to do this is when going to the bathroom and sitting on the toilet where she can simply empty the menstrual fluids collected in her menstrual cup, right into the toilet.

She may have a spare menstrual cup in her purse, or, she can simply place some toilet paper in her panties – walk over to the sink, and wash out the menstrual cup, and return to the stall, replacing the toilet paper by re-inserting the clean menstrual cup back into the vagina.

Menstrual Cups can last up to 10 years or longer. They come in 2 sizes – before vaginal childbirth size – and after vaginal childbirth size.

Pads, Pantiliners and Tampons

If you’re going to use a feminine hygiene product that is worn inside your vagina, or next to your vulva, shouldn't it be made from a source that is as natural as it can possibly be, and made from materials that were grown without the use of pesticides, herbicides and other poisons?!? Especially since your used and discarded feminine hygiene products may spend several hundred years decomposing in a landfill!

Our recommendations – if you are going to use a feminine hygiene product that is going to outlast you by several hundred years, is to choose feminine hygiene products that are made from certified, organically grown cotton – which is best for you and everyone else's environment!

Yes, there are now several feminine hygiene products, including organic cotton tampons, pads and pantiliners, that are now made from certified, organically-grown cotton!