Made out of 90% plastic with other materials such as cellulose and SAP, adhesives and fragrances.

Thus you expose your genitalia to harsh chemicals and fumes which disposable pads emit after absorption of the menstrual blood.

Our Reusable cloth pads are made of ultrasoft 100% cotton fabric lined by a leakproof layer of PUL. It is designed to provide full absorption without leakage issue. After usage, the reusable pad is to be washed and dried in sunlight. The beauty of this process is that you do not dispose the unwanted amount of plastics. As one changes the disposable pads after few hours the same way reusable pads have to be changed and washed and reused.

In India, we have embraced disposable sanitary pads since a decade or two however we have been using cloth pads since ages now . Our grandmothers and their grandmothers and so on, all were using reusable cloth pads for centuries now, however we in modern times have not embraced the ancient safe practice of reusable cloth pads and shifted to unsafe options without thinking about the health repercussions of the same. If we wash and dry reusable cloth pads properly in open air and sunlight the pads are completely safe to use.

The demand for reusable cloth pads is increasing day by day all around the world as the more and more women are making the switch to reusable cloth pads. However in India , we face these kinds of refrain to make the switch to cloth pads because of the huge marketing strategy of big multinational companies disposable pads. However we at Samvad partner with our NGO friends and spread the awareness about the reusable cloth pads. The women who switch to reusable cloth pads themselves feel the difference and accept that reusable cloth pads are way much comfortable as compared to disposable ones.

There are many advantages of reusable cloth pads however the biggest one is that when you use a cloth pad , it does not feel plastic as in case of the disposable one does .Second advantage of reusable cloth sanitary pad is the there is no need to buy sanitary pads anymore and directly throw away the money in a garbage bin eventually. Third advantage is that you buy a packet of disposable sanitary pad every month worth 50/- to 80/- and directly translate that money into garbage, where as you buy a set of reusable cloth pads, wash them and reuse them for 2 ½ to 3 years without spending any extra money to maintain the same.

Our reusable cloth sanitary ads are made of two kinds of fabrics; the upper layer is 100% ultrasoft cotton cloth which is tested for maximum absorbency and soft feel. The bottom most layer which faces the panty is PUL (poly urethane lamination) fabric which makes the reusable cloth pad leakprof.PUL is medically accepted and is used in cloth diapers for babies and cloth pads worldwide. It is breathable and does not harm human bodies.