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Stick tampon
Kotex, Canada, 1969
Kimberly-Clark
Instructions in French and English

tampon, stick, Canada, French, menstruation, menstrual cycle, period
women, health, women, Procter & Gamble, Kimberly-Clark


Introduction.

Procter & Gamble kindly donated the 1969 box with tampons and the former Tambrands generously contributed the 1977 tampon & box.


Below: For added excitement, I contrast the 1969 tampon packaging (top) with a later American (1977; box at right) one for the stick tampon.
The left arrow points to a notch that makes it easy to tear open the paper. The right arrow reveals how the package came about: the individual coverings were cut out of a large sheet, the notch at one end taken from the adjoining one. Clear? The lower one for some reason is made of plastic (the back of the box at right says polypropylene) and I found it harder to tear (I can hear the cursing in toilet stalls from women past) not only because of the lack of a notch but because of the plastic. I'd like to know why Kotex did this especially since the company possibly showed environmental concern by making the stick out of (what looks like) cardboard - paper, not plastic. The box doesn't say.
 
 
Below: Box for the American Kotex stick tampon at lower left with a 1977 copyright.
That the box actually appeared after the toxic shock crisis of the late 1970s and early 1980s is attested to by the statement below right and the warning about toxic shock occupying over half the back of the box.

Below: The pointer on your anticipation meter is swinging wildly to the right!
Yes, I again compare the two stick 'pons, 1969 above and 1977 below!
Sorry to let you down but they're virtually identical.
Both strings measure 4.5" long (ca. 11.5 cm), the sticks 3.75" (about 9.5 cm).
The plugs (absorbent parts) are 1.75 x 0.5" (about 4.5 x 1.5 cm).
Note the embossed pattern at left on the stick for a better grip.
Compare with Kotex's FIRST stick tampon, Kotams.
 
 
Below: The end that takes the stick.
End | box - instructions: French, English - Kotex second stick tampons (U.S.A.) & their ads (also July 1972), 1960s to 1970s -
"Remember how simple life used to be?" ads for the stick tampon - Kotams mesh-string tampon
with 2-tube insertion device (1944?) - also called Kotams: first Kotex stick tampon, 1960-65 -
Comfortube tampons (1967), box, tampons - the very early Moderne Woman, fax, Nunap, &
Fibs, all 1930s. See also Fems from Australian Kimberly-Clark, 1967.

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