Feminine Hygiene Moneysaving Alternatives

Queenie

Lollypops:

Queenie wrote:

For those who can't use the Keeper/Mooncup due to allergies, you can make your own cloth menstral pads to save a few bob:

Pattern & Instructions - this site also explains how best to launder them and a Q&A to read through.

titianbear

thanks for all the tips here on this thread - inc the 'smileys'

I have checked out the mooncup site and FAQs and I am still unsure of something so - can i ask a question and hopefully not embarrass anyone?:o

What do you clean the mooncup with on a daily basis....just warm water or wipe clean with paper, can you use a mild soap or fragrance free baby wipes?
On a monthly basis can you clean it in a steam sterilizer.

Any advise would be welcome..;)

tullula_2

Brilliant I'm convinced!! Just ordered one. :j

swampytiggaa

titianbear wrote:

thanks for all the tips here on this thread - inc the 'smileys'

I have checked out the mooncup site and FAQs and I am still unsure of something so - can i ask a question and hopefully not embarrass anyone?:o

What do you clean the mooncup with on a daily basis....just warm water or wipe clean with paper, can you use a mild soap or fragrance free baby wipes?
On a monthly basis can you clean it in a steam sterilizer.

Any advise would be welcome..;)

personally i use hot water to wash it out with whilst using it [iyswim] mainly cos i prefer to put mine in wet as it is more pliable [sorry - TMI ]

steralising it - i use my microwave steam steraliser [well i did - my microwave has died so i need to investigate an alternative ]

sarahbrand

I can also recommend the Mooncup - I purchased mine from https://www.plushpants.co.uk where you can also buy other items like nappies. I would not be without my mooncup simple and easy to use, environmentally friendly and what a difference to the costs per month!

123xyz

Sounds just like what my grandmother used to tell me about; she used to say that her mother, herself and two sisters all menstruating at the same time like nuns in a convent, on wet days the laundry room was strung from side to side with their monthly washing!

ashmit

I have used both the keeper and the mooncup. I find the mooncup tons easier than the keeper.

I have never had any problems with either infections or leakage (except when I've forgotten to empty it which was my own fault really!!!) and I've been using it for... over 5 years now I think.

I just rinse on a daily basis (or wipe with loo roll in work or public bathrooms) and sterilise or boil at the end.

Oh, and

think the keeper is rubber and the mooncup is silicone - so the keeper is unsuitable for people with certain allergies......

yes, this is correct.

soba

Thanks for all the information. I've ordered my mooncup tonight. Got to be better than tampax etc. Slightly off tangent, a few years ago there was a Panorama programme about tampons and the possibility that they could contain dioxin which is highly toxic. Does anyone else remember the programme? I wrote to Tampax at the time about it, they were furious with Panorama for broadcasting the programme. No doubt it hit their profits for a short while!!

Daisy

There is a good article here http://www.wen.org.uk/sanpro/resources.htm Click on the top article. After reading it and other similar articles, I'm never going to use tampax again. I've ordered a mooncup which I will soon test out and I've alslo bought some organic tampons just in case. I managed to find them in a shop for £2.25 for 20. They alslo do an 'Ultra' absorbancy which I've never seen before.

creamychops

Thanks to you all, I too am convinced and have ordered one and depending on how I get on, I hope to recommend it to every woman I know. I am astonished that I had never even heard of such devices.

Cheers :beer: