Stayfree Mini and Maxi Pads 1971 Image courtesy. Dickinson while one was made.
Invented by German gynecologist Dr.
Who invented the maxi pad. Her creation was considered by most to be the first form of modern menstruation protection which led to the creation of the maxi pad and then mini pads and then tampons and many others. Apparently we have Ben Franklin to thank for the invention of the maxi. She lived from 350370 CE to 415 CE not in the 10th Century BC or CE AD.
The products reflected Johnson Johnsons continued commitment to making cutting-edge feminine hygiene supplies. Johnson Johnson Archives Stayfree Mini and Maxi Pads were some of the first comfortable period protection optionsno belts hooks or special garments required. Officially known as menstruation but more commonly as the red flood maxi-pads have had a quiet slow and secretive evolution in finding ways to mop up daily secretions mask musky odours and to keep expensive.
Mary Kenner was an African-American inventor who revamped the world of feminine care with the invention of the sanitary belt aka the maxi pad. 1940s - Shoulder Pads invented for defencemen - not used by all players. If you were looking fo hocky shoulder pads What should you do if you just had your period.
A belt for sanitary napkins an idea she created when she was 18 years old long before the modern-day maxi pad and at a time when at a time when women were still using uncomfortable and unsanitary cloth pads and rags during their period. It wasnt any ordinary woman who threw or showed her menstrual pad to a suitor. Want to read about the history of the good ol sanitary napkin.
It is supposed to have been Hypatia a philosopher mathematician teacher and inventor of Alexandria Egypt. A school dropout from a poor family in southern India has revolutionised menstrual health for rural women in developing countries by inventing a. In 1957 Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner filed for her very first patent.
It was patented by Dr. Tampon was marketed as a smarter alternative to applicator tampons by emphasizing greater comfort and doing away with the need for an applicator. Judith Esser-Mittag in the 1940s the ob.
Earl Haas who didnt get anywhere with it. Some of the newly popular applicator tampons were made of absorbent cotton explained the study author Robert L. Kimberly-Clark employee Walter Luecke who had been tasked with finding a use for Cellucotton understood that a product designed to appeal to.
A maxi-pad is a tool utilized by women to absorb personal vaginal discharge and avoid undergarment staining during their internal regulatory moment of the female lunar cycle-time. Though her invention attracted multiple feminine hygiene companies it was rejected by most when they realized Mary was African-American. The Forgotten Black Woman Inventor Who Revolutionized Menstrual Pads Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner was a self-taught inventor who created the sanitary belt and filed five patents in.
On behalf of all men and women alive we say a big thank you to Our Menstrual heroine Mary Beatrice Kenner.