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Daints menstrual tampons
(1930s? U.S.A.)

Menstruation is often not the daintiest condition, which explains the efforts of the menstrual products industry to make it sound so (see the Daintette menstrual cup and many ads using the word). Letting other people detect your period through odor or appearance (thus Secret) is a major social stumble - or flat-on-your-face fall. Thus the name of this tampon. The "Woman of Charm" on the box is not a good example since the odor-containing vase of a dress would conceal both a large 1930s menstrual pad and its smell, at least for a while - but I suppose she shows that a woman in a fancy dress is willing to use the company's tampon.

Daints probably came about in the 1930s if the text is to be believed (as usual with most early tampons, there are no patent numbers; Tampax was an exception). The instructions include "Before the development of Daints, internal protection was sometimes incomplete and greater in cost. Today Daints gives you complete internal protection for complete period at less cost than ordinary napkins." The first sentence seems to say other tampons existed but were sometimes inadequate; the second seems to compare itself with menstrual pads unless it's using napkins in the sense of internal sanitary napkins that text on early tampon boxes and in ads often used.

Procter & Gamble kindly donated the boxes and contents as part of a gift of scores of menstrual products.


Below: The cardboard box measures 4.25 x 3 x 0.75" (10.8 x 7.6 x 1.9 cm).

Below: "No belts, no pads" and no pins became famous as it appeared on many makes of tampons, most famously on Tampax boxes and in its ads.
 
 
 
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