See more flushable pads: Society (American?,
1920s - 1930s?) and New
Freedom (American, 1971)
Kotex ad emphasizing shame,
1992
See more Kotex items: First ad
(1921) - ad 1928 (Sears
and Roebuck catalog) - Lee Miller ads
(first real person in amenstrual hygiene ad,
1928) - Marjorie
May's Twelfth Birthday (booklet for
girls, 1928, Australian edition; there are
many links here to Kotex items) - Preparing for
Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls;
Australian edition) - 1920s booklet in
Spanish showing disposal
method - box
from about 1969 - "Are
you in the know?" ads (Kotex) (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) -
See more ads on the Ads
for Teenagers main page
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Flushable menstrual pads
The Cellucotton Products Company
designed some early Kotex pads, in
the 1920s, to be flushed
down the toilet, after the
user took them apart by hand. See
also the Society-brand
pads,
probably from the 1920s or 1930s,
and the 1973 ad of the Modess . . .
. because series.
But stopped-up
toilets in the 1920s
defeated that idea as well as
similar ones through the years.
Below are two later American
products.
Ever game, Kotex has at least one more time
sold flushable pads (towels), in
the United Kingdom.
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1972
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1971
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See more flushable pads: Society
(American?, 1920s - 1930s?) and New Freedom
(American, 1971)
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