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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SANITARY PADS AND COTTON CLOTHES . SANITARY PADS   Sanitary pad, which is also known as sanitary napkin or menstrual pad.Some sanitary pads are disposable and are meant for single use only. Most sanitary pads available in the market are disposable ones. Sanitary pads come in different shapes and sizes, with different capacity to absorb for days of heavy and light menstrual bleeding.   COTTON CLOTHES Some women use a washable or reusable  cloth pad . These are made from a number of types of fabric—most often cotton flannel, bamboo, or hemp (which is highly absorbent and not as bulky as cotton). Reusable sanitary pads are mostly cloth pads that can be washed, dried and reused over a number of times. Most styles have wings that secure around the underpants, but some are just held in place between the body and the underpants. Reasons women choose to cloth menstrual pads include comfort, less expensive, and health reasons.   CONCLUSION Menstrual hygi
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  Misconceptions aboutSanitary Napkins   With the passage of time people seeks forward towards innovation in various fields. One of those innovations consist of Sanitary Pads . As we all know that sanitary pads are used by women’s during there process of menstrual cycle in which menstruation occurs for 5-8 days, that means that a women requires a sanitary napkin or a pad most during these days. So why do women’s need a pad?   When a women is in the phase of menstruation, there occurs bleeding which is to be cleaned in a hygienic manner. Sanitary napkins thus helps women to absorb all the flow of their bleeding. Before the invention of Pads women’s used papyrus or other ways to cleanit and it was very unhygienic. In 1957, Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner at the age of 18 created the first sanitary napkin belt for periods and filed a patent for it, it was the very first revolution for women’s. Misconceptions about the Pads   So it’s a known fact that whenever something ne
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  In India only 20% adoption of sanitary napkin   For the longest time, the Indian society has treated menstruation as a taboo. The word ‘Period’ is usually uttered in hushed voices and years of social conditioning have built a culture of silence around what is a normal biological phenomenon.   periods don’t stop for pandemics. In fact, lockdowns intensify the impact of household level taboos and stigmas on women -- making it more difficult to manage menstruation without shame and discomfort in confined spaces. In rural India, the unavailability of sanitary napkins coupled with unhygienic and crowded washrooms and toilets in their localities have worsened the situation for women.   According to Menstrual Hygiene brand Whisper and UNESCO, the global pandemic has forced girls to abandon sanitary napkins for menstrual pads made of cloth, which has raised the spectre of a looming health hazard. Adding to the misery, the lack of menstrual hygiene education in India is also i