On the off-chance that you are a male, you may want to check out another post…this one is ladies only! Perhaps take a look at these awesome, unique package designs or these five examples of amazing health-related marketing. Still with me? Okay, but don’t say I didn’t warn you…[spacer height=”20px”]
Let’s talk about periods. (Girls, I think we’ve lost the boys by now.)[spacer height=”20px”]
They’re obnoxious and intrusive, and they make me–a normally even-keeled, level-headed individual, a bit, well, crazy. [spacer height=”20px”]
What makes me even crazier, though, is the way that “feminine hygiene” product companies speak to women on television, in magazines, and elsewhere with regards to periods…it feels like they’re marketing to aliens from another planet, who deal with strange blueish liquid coming out of them while they twirl in yellow polka-dotted sundresses, do triple flips into the pool in stark white bikinis, and go on their dream date looking hotter than ever. Um…am I missing something?[spacer height=”20px”]
[spacer height=”20px”]Let’s be real: periods are awful. They are equated with bloating and sweatpants and movie marathons, with over-eating and under-showering, and with cramping that results in the fetal position. There are no yellow polka-dotted sundresses round these parts during my time of month (during any time of month), and definitely no bleached white bikini-sporting. So where’s the disconnect? Where are the real women? The crampy, sweatpants-clad ones? The women who know how terrible those five days are? [spacer height=”20px”]
Apparently, they’re working for Kotex.[spacer height=”20px”]
I was impressed with the very first U By Kotex advertisement (below) that I saw on TV months ago, where younger women and their older counterparts described myths that had never been dispelled for them in their youth (like using a tampon meant you were no longer a virgin)![spacer height=”20px”]
Can’t watch it here? View it on Youtube.[spacer height=”20px”]
Their magazine ads are wonderful, too. They play into the [too-true] theory that society is still resisting the idea that every woman gets her period every month. Why the stigma? Hear us loud and clear: it happens monthly. Get over it! [spacer height=”20px”]
[spacer height=”20px”]Love it. I was already bought into U By Kotex‘s values when the company asked me to do a product review for their tampons. I happily agreed, and soon received my sample in the mail, just in time for me to leak blue liquid and twirl in polka-dotted dresses curl up in a ball and watch Full House re-runs.[spacer height=”20px”]
I wouldn’t publicly post about Aunt Flow unless I actually had something to say. And hear me: I was really, very, extremely impressed with the U By Kotex tampons I received. First of all, their packaging is sleek and black–a color I more readily associate with my time of month. Who in the world wears white?![spacer height=”20px”]
But moreover, the product actually works. It works really, really well. The tampon’s cotton is made up of “channels–” basically it looks like a bunch of tiny white straws bundled together vertically. For whatever reason, these channels seem to absorb more than the layered tampons I’ve used in the past. (If you’re interested in getting a free sample and trying it out for yourself, click here and grab one! Do it!)[spacer height=”20px”]
The tampon’s plastic shell has a really interesting (and useful) plastic, grippy handle on it for proper and comfortable placement. The body of beast the tampon is very slim, and while I tested the regular absorbency, the products also come in super and super plus.[spacer height=”20px”]
Now that I’ve crossed my this-may-be-TMI-for-my-blog-but-what-the-heck line roughly 72 times, I will bid you adieu and leave you with this: you should try these products out. They’re different–they’re better! Grab a free sample here, catch up with U By Kotex on Facebook here, and follow the company on Twitter here.[spacer height=”20px”]
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I wrote this review while participating in a content series through Clever Girls Collective on behalf of U by Kotex, and received products to facilitate my post and compensation for my time to participate.
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