More Tampax items:
First tampon with applicator (1931-33?) box, tampon,
instructions - 1936: box, tampon, patent (with
a short account of the invention of Tampax by Dr.
Earle Haas, and of the first Tampax president,
German immigrant Gertrude Tenderich),
ad, instructions,
dealer's instructions,
dealers' advisory
See also Australian douche
ad (ca. 1900) - Fresca
douche powder (U.S.A.) (date ?) - Kotique douche
liquid ad, 1974 (U.S.A.) - Liasan (1) genital
wash ad, 1980s (Germany) - Liasan (2) genital
wash ad, 1980s (Germany) - Lysol douche liquid
ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) - Lysol
douche liquid ad, 1948 (U.S.A.) - Marvel douche liquid
ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) - Midol
ad, 1938 - Midol
booklet (selections), 1959 (U.S.A.) -
Mum deodorant cream
ad, 1926 (U.S.A.) - Myzone
menstrual pain pills ad, 1952 (Australia) -
Pristeen genital
spray ad, 1969 (U.S.A.) - Spalt pain tablets,
1936 (Germany) - Sterizol
douche liquid ad, 1926 (U.S.A.) - Vionell genital spray
ad, 1970, with Cheryl Tiegs (Germany) - Zonite douche liquid
ad, 1928 (U.S.A.)
The Perils of
Vaginal Douching (essay by Luci Capo
Rome) - the odor
page
More Midol: Midol
booklet (selections), 1959, and Midol
ad, 1938
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Tampax menstrual tampon ads,
1943(?) & 1956(?), U.S.A.
No belts, No
pins, No pads, No odor
Tampax rode to the rescue, as
did many other early
tampon companies, in the mid
1930s to save women from menstrual
belts and
the pins that attached pads to
them. Many similar ads appeared
for decades.
See an early Tampax ad from the
Netherlands , 1938. My guess
is that Tampax was the first
commercial tampon in Europe,
although women had made their own
for decades and probably longer.
Other tampons also trumpeted the lack of
pins, etc.
I thank the donor of many ads
and booklets!
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Below:
The ad on the reverse is "and I
promised Mom --," my copy
having appeared in 1943. So
that would place this ad about
from that time. Publication
unknown.
At the
bottom of the ad it mentions
a Regular
Tampax (1938, front of box
), Junior
Tampax (1939-40, box,
tampon, instructions), and a Super Tampax
(1939-40, front of box), which
Tambrands kindly donated.
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Below:
"20 years ago" probably means
1936, when Tampax seems to have come on
the market widely. That
would date this ad to 1956 or maybe a
little earlier.
Publication unknown.
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