Just wondering what ladies thought of Tampax and Peral tampons?

Question

I currently work at Tambrands, we make Tampax and Peral tampons just wondering what others thought of them. I know Thanks for sureing your thoughts.

First I wanted to say sorry for my typos i mean to say Pearl not Peral. I think i had another one but cant think if it right now.. Also, I'm very proud to work at tambrands but I do work for a staffing company so not for PG... oh and by the way PG has only owned Tambrands for about 6 years..

LOL found the other spelling mistake... Shared not sured.. lol

Answer 1

The toxic shock syndrome scandal of the 1980's actually was a brand called Beyond who is not in business anymore, and was owned by Procter & Gamble (but Tampax WAS NOT owned by P&G at that point!!!)

Tampax (being a commercial brand) only uses rayon and cotton as absorbent materials which is stated right on the package for an consumer to read and if the consumer follows the instructions on the package as stated there is no extraordinary risk of TSS. The chemicals that are used to bleach the tampons are not applied in the tampon manufacturing process. They are applied form the supplier and this is because consumers prefer a white product vs. the natural yellow tint of cotton. There is NO secondary effect of increasing absorbency by bleaching cotton- in fact it would decrease absorbency because the cotton would have to absorb the bleach. Other leading manufacturers do bleach their product unless they are specifically listed as a "natural" product.

You then have the environmental cost, manufacturing and bleaching both create waste and pollution on top of that which is already created in the use of disposable menstrual options. There is no more cost to this process than there is to create a douche or sanitary pad. Pads are bleached as well and douches use far more chemicals in their process than tampon companies ever dreamed of.

Health and environmental costs aside you also have of course actual cost, luxury items of course being highly priced but I feel that Tampax are the better known brand and so take advantage of this by charging ludicrous prices.- Tampax cost no more than other leading brands (ie Playtex or OB)- and women are willing to pay a little more for the quality and comfort that using a trusted brand name will give them.

Perhaps most of all there is the social cost, Tampax have a wonderful habit of giving 'girl talks' at schools telling girls they have to use either tampons or pads, but tampons are more grown up of course so they should use tampons – these talks in the past have nothing to do with P&G as a company "pitting" brands against each other. P&G acquired the Tampax name in the late 1990's and why would they pit a tampon product they own against a pad product they also own as well??? This makes NO SENSE as a business.

I felt that I had to respond to the previous entries as a WELL INFORMED consumer instead of someone who has a handful of mislead ideals that they are imposing on the general public. I highly recommend ANY woman (or girl) who is choosing a feminine protection product to consult with your female family members and doctor to decide what is best FOR you and not what yahoo answer readers think of a general brand!

Answer 2

I really don't give thoughts towards either because since I was eight teen I could not use them would have a hard time getting it to fit. SO I use Always w/wings or Maxi's w/wings these seem to work for me. And I guess hearing my mom complain so much while growing up about that Toxic Syndrome women could get from leaving these on to long kinda turned my mind against using the tampon.

Answer 3

I love them Peral tampons are the only thing ill use.

Answer 4

Hate them as I hate all commercial tampons, of course being Tampax that hatred is a little more heated due to the history of the company such as the dioxin scandal of the 1990's and toxic shock syndrome scandal of the 1980's that were impacted when they attempted to use those same harmful materials in babies nappies. The issues are not just in regards to tampons but other products and general lack of morality on most issues.

As tampons themselves, there are health risks with all tampons due to their prevention of normal vaginal self-cleaning functions as well as allowing a pores environment for bacteria to multiply, thus increasing risk of infections, vaginal splitting and toxic shock syndrome. Tampax brands being commercial use materials that increase risks associated with tampons due to their super absorbency, then on top of that there is the fact that chemicals are used to bleach the tampons. This bleaching serves no purpose other than to make the products whiter at the cost of the consumer, environment and those who actually manufacture the products themselves, with a secondary effect of increasing absorbency. It is claimed this is to come to standards with the British, European and US Pharmacopoeia standards, when this can hardly be true considering that other manufacturers do not bleach their products.

You then have the environmental cost, manufacturing and bleaching both create waste and pollution on top of that which is already created in the use of disposable menstrual options, to add to the problem Tampax also market their tampons as flushable when they are nothing of the sort, costing water authorities billions per year to resolve the problems flushed tampons cause.

Health and environmental costs aside you also have of course actual cost, luxury items of course being highly priced but I feel that Tampax are the better known brand and so take advantage of this by charging ludicrous prices.

Perhaps most of all there is the social cost, Tampax have a wonderful habit of giving 'girl talks' at schools telling girls they have to use either tampons or pads, but tampons are more grown up of course so they should use tampons – because as I understand it P&G work by pitting brands against each other, so Tampax would stand against Always in the grand scheme of things.
The idea of putting wads of material into ones vagina is bad enough, but then to use menstrual taboos to turn women against their bodies in order to keep customers loyal is something else, to the point of risking health by using bleaching methods, or of course the new trend of scented tampons, which most people believe is the reaction of commercial sanitary brands to the fact more women are turning to safer menstrual options such as menstrual cups as they are becoming more aware of the issues tampons raise.

I like most other women I know wouldn’t use Tampax if our lives depended on it – in fact, our lives do depend on it.

Answer 5

Haven't used them and never would, I have more sense than to put a bleach-filled wad of rayon up my vagina thank you very much - oh, and please pass on this message...

MY VAGINA DOES NOT NEED YOUR CHEMICALS TO SMELL PRETTY!!

I'm sick of seeing adverts from Tampax and similar telling me my vagina smells so I need scented tampons, or that my menses are dirty so I need super white tampons, or whatever other nonsense.

Sorry, but how you could work for such a horrific company I will never know.

Answer 6

I love them.

Answer 7

They get the job done.