Kimberly, Clark and Co, 1953

vintage advertisements from Photoplay Magazine, early 1960s.

Turns out the world wars were actually good for something!

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"That Day is Here Again." LIBERTY, March 11, 1944

Kotex, 1929

1954 Kotex Feminine Hygiene Products

Advertisement for Kotek sanitary napkins and sanitary belt (1951). Artwork by Tom Hall.

Sad dress is sad.

Life - February 8th 1954

Qorvex, we speak Tenno

Jolie Jones in a 1972 ad for Kotex sanitary napkins

now i am in love with this little guy

my page will be full of content about this movie, it was the first time in YEARS i enjoyed a film + first time since 2016 i was in a cinema

anyway, first gif is with "sox"(he had it on his collar) second is "kotex" which is Polish version on his name("kotek" is small cat and they just made last K an X, so we have Kotex with ks sound at the end)

if i was a kid i would beg my parents for merch with him. Sadly I am an adult, so I will buy/make myself some

I learned today that the original design of Kleenex was to be a battle field wound dressing and gas mask filter for WW 1, then later it became a beauty product, to remove makeup using cold cream. And so it was a woman's product, men didn't really use it, and stuck with their handkerchiefs probably. The stuff was called Cellucotton. And it later around the 1920s went onto be used into making menstruation pads, aka KOTEX yep still that same brand today. Then at some point one of the researchers realized they made a great alternative to cloth handkerchiefs. And were then marketed as a disposable handkerchief nearing the end of the 1920s. And LO AND BEHOLD, Kleenex was born, as A "cleaning kotex" but changed the named enough so it wasn't associated too much with women's makeup routine and the sanitary pad and appropriate for also dude and general public use. And their big gimmick was to not to keep your cold in your pocket. So now you know why Kleenex are soft and favorable for the face, its not just for your nose, but they also know some people still use it for makeup removal.

The Story Of Menstruation (1946)

Kotex and Disney teamed up in 1946 to bring you this wonderful little animated info. Besides them representing the blood as white, and not really having the most accurate depiction of how the ovaries connect to the fallopian tubes, it's pretty cute, and I'm sure was very helpful to some young teen who didn't have parents to explain stuff to her

In the too much info category...

Here are my wishes to tampon companies as a real woman using tampons. If this topic bothers you...maybe you should leave Earth or something. I don’t know. Women have periods. Call Elon and ask for a ride out.  

- Please make applicators longer. I don’t know who this women with a 1 inch vagina is, but I need to get mine up in there. And I end up having to contort myself into a pretzel in order to do so because the applicator is so tiny. I have to shove half my hand up there. I end up tossing some of my tampons because I push the tampon in, then have to go digging to try and pull both applicator pieces out together without it getting stuck on the string and pulling the tampon out and it’s often a losing battle. If I’m at work, in those super comfy tiny stalls they have, I end up cramping up trying to get the thing in and also, sometimes my hand comes out covered in blood. Now I’m trying to wipe it up before I touch my clothes or the wall and then have to wait for no one to be in there before I come out so they don’t see my bloody hand.

- Please invent a way to keep the 2 pieces of the applicator from coming apart. I’ll pull out the bottom piece than have to go in and fish out the top part. 

- Please stop with these little skinny Tampax-style bottom piece applicator stick things. It’s almost impossible to push in or take out. Al least create a lip on the top part so we can grip it while pushing in. Y’all need to understand when you have your period, things are slippery down there. Those useless notches you put in do nothing to help when trying to push in a tampon with blood running down your fingers. Y’all need to ALWAYS have a lip on the edges.

BAD: no lip to hold, little ‘notches’ in the top piece that are useless- 

GOOD: lip to grip onto on both sides, thick enough to be able to push the weight of the tampon in-

-Because my beloved Kotex U super tampons are discontinued, I’ve been attempting to try new brands. The closest I’ve found is this brand called Cora on Amazon that is the closest I’ve been able to find. For anyone else looking to sub them out... I’ve done the hard work being the test monkey so you don’t have to. 

-  I have obscenely heavy periods and can’t wear pads. I have tried the cup and no matter how much people try to convince me in this cult-like way that they’re great, they are super painful for some of us. And when I did try it, when I pulled it out it was like a straight up Pollack painting across my bathroom floor. It’s messy and uncomfortable. The period panties don’t work for me because I end up with rashes from sitting in wet all day or night. Tampons are a saving grace for people like me who have very heavy periods, but my vagina feels like it has a headache with all the abuse it goes through, just with the process of getting it in.

So please, tampon people, make better product design!

Kotex, 1971