Ladies, it’s time to bid adieu to rashes, synthetic fragrances and all-plastic.
FYI: Any pad, with any amount of plastic in it – even to a marginal degree – cannot be a 100% biodegradable. Even a tiny bit of plastic would take months or years to disintegrate and would certainly leave behind microplastics.
Even in organic cotton pads, there would, most likely be, a plastic sheet encased in the cloth to render the product leak-proof. This is a necessary evil, unfortunately, or the product would simply not be practical.
But the glass-half-full view is that with these pads, your skin is not in direct touch with plastic all day. Most of these pads would have at least 4-5 layers of fabric between the plastic layer and your skin.
Therefore, these pads are certainly the more prudent option over conventional pads, which are all-plastic and cheap perfume.
◊ Compiled by Rutaksha Rawat (with inputs from Dr Supriya Mahajan Sardana)
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ORGANIC COTTON SANITARY TOWELS
Eco Femme
Contact Person: Jessamijn Miedema (Director)
Address: Eco Femme, Saracon Campus (near Ganesh Bakery), Kottakarai Auroville – 605111, Tamil Nadu
Ph: +91-94871 79556
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.ecofemme.org
India E-store: www.shop.ecofemme.org
International E-store: www.shop.ecofemme.org/int
Material used: The pads are made of GOTS-certified organic cotton. The top of the pad is made of soft flannel cotton. The inside of the pad is made of ultra-absorbent cotton flannel (the number of layers differs according to the pad model). The back of the pad is made with a PUL (polyurethane laminate) leakproof layer.
Product Range: Reusable Organic Cloth Sanitary Pads
Hi Life
Contact Person: Sanjiv Nischal (MD)
Address: E-105, Shanti Kunj Main, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, 110070
Ph: +91 9821838004
Email: [email protected]
E-store: www.hilifewomen.com
Material used: The sanitary pads are made of GOTS-certified organic cotton.
Product Range: Sanitary pads
Mirai Me
Contact Person: Devidutta Dash (Founder)
Ph: +91-7440-050-140
Email: [email protected]
E-store: www.miraime.com
Material used: GOTS-certified Organic cotton
Product Range: Organic tampons
Pee Safe
Redcliffe Hygiene Privated Limited
Contact Person: Vikas Bagaria (Founder)
Ph: +91 9870279353
Email: [email protected]
E-store: www.peesafe.com
Material used: The pads and panty liners are made of organic cotton and certified bamboo fibre. The tampons are made of only organic cotton and have been dermatologically tested.
Product Range: Sanitary pads, panty liners, organic tampons.
Azah
Contact Person: Aqib Mohammed (Founder)
Address: First floor, Plot no. 276, Sector 45, Gurgaon, Haryana-122003
Email: [email protected]
E-store: www.azah.in
Material used: The pads and panty liners are made of organic cotton and are MadeSafe-certified.
Product Range: Organic sanitary pads, panty liners, maternity pads
Stonesoup
Contact Person: Smita Kulkarni (Co Founder)
Address: Sy no 42, First Floor, Opp Zonasha Vista, Dinne Anjaneya Swamy Temple Rd, Haralur, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560102
Ph: +91-910 846 2846
Email: [email protected]
E-store: www.stonesoup.in
Material used: Unbleached kora cotton for absorption and knitted fabric for outer layer. Leak proof layer of PUL material inside. However, the plastic layer does not touch the skin and there are 5-8 layers of cloth between the skin and the palstic sheet.
Product Range: Disposable cloth pads & panty liners
BAMBOO FIBRE-BASED SANITARY TOWELS
Noraa
Nailen Pvt Ltd
Contact Person: Hemender Singh Hoon (Founder)
Address: U-66/44, DLF Phase-3, Gurgaon-122002
Email: [email protected]
E-store: www.noraa.in
Material used: Bamboo fibre.
Product Range: Disposable sanitary pads, panty liners, intimate wipes
Heydey
Contact Person: Deepanjali Kanoria (Founder)
Ph: +91 9560488256
Email: [email protected]
E-store: www.heydaycare.com
Material used: Corn & Bamboo fibres. No bleach or chemicals used.
Product Range: Disposable sanitary napkins, diapers, panty liners
Saathi
Contact Person: Tarun Bothra (Founder)
Address: 1306, 13th Floor, Titanium One, Opposite Pakwan Hotel, Nr Rajpath Club Road, SG Highway Ahmedabad- 380054
Ph: +91 7874539394
Email: [email protected]
E-store: www.saathipads.com
Material used: There are two varieties of sanitary pads—one is made of banana fibre, the other of bamboo fibres. Bioplastic sheet used inside the fabric to render product leak-proof.
Product Range: Disposable sanitary pads
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Which of the company in india, produces non gel based sanitary pads, most of the organic sanitary pad company say 100% cotton pad.
Just beacuse you use first layer of pad with cotton does not make it 100% cotton pad.
There is gel based layer too, that is very dangerous to women,do any of you produce non ge based pads?
Eco Femme does.