Bodyform campaign - couldn't believe it!

asea

I think it's the lack of clean fresh water & the ability to clean them that was raised as a problem

Sarahsaver

Water would be used whether you were washing yourself during menstruation, cleaning a mooncup and so on. I walked past the bodyform stand today again in Boots. 'Thanks for helping the women of Zimbabwe' it says. I would like to do something which is more than add oil to the pr machine of a big company out to make a new niche for itself.

curlylocks_2

I am a mooncup fan too. They only have to be sterilized between cycles, is it impractical to boil something about the size of a golf ball in about half a cup of water once a month? They are dicreet, comfortable, economical and reusable. They surely have to be the answer:question:

Hapless_2

is it impractical to boil something about the size of a golf ball in about half a cup of water once a month

When the only water comes out of 1 stand pipe per village and there is nowhere sterile to store items? Where they have been suffering drought for the past 8 years?
At least washables can be washed with clothing and hung out to dry.

curlylocks_2

There's my answer then - it is impractical.........no water. Where do they wash their clothes then......not being 'funny' I am just ignorant.

Hapless_2

curlylocks wrote: »

There's my answer then - it is impractical.........no water. Where do they wash their clothes then......not being 'funny' I am just ignorant.

Usually in water they have washed with, in rivers, wherever the water is that can be used for washing but no good for drinking. It's the rural areas suffering with drought worse as the waterpipes get cut off so there is water for the cities. (just like 1980's S.A. aparthied)

For the majority of women there though, AIDS, cholera, dysentry, malaria, typhoid and bilharzia, are more problematic than getting their hands on disposible sanitary products.
Those who are making an issue out of sanitary products think that washable products are somehow "beneath" them and that they are for the poor and uneducated.

curlylocks_2

Thanks for that info Hapless, now I understand. I can't see how disposable sanitary products could really be an option when living in those conditions - surely something reusable HAS to be the answer.....for all of us.

Gingham_Ribbon

moonrakerz wrote: »

I fear that this may be a more cynical marketing ploy than first meets the eye.

This sort of thing has been done before, first introduce the 'poor downtrodden natives' to the delights of Bodyform (or as has been widely reported lately - formula baby milk). If you can get shoppers in the West to actually pay for the 'free samples' - even better !

Once these poor people are persuaded that they can't do without this product, even more of their very small disposable income goes into the pockets of the multi nationals.

This is exactly what I came on here to post. Disgusting. Not only that they are doing this but that they are expecting the consumer here to pay for it thinking they are 'helping'.

And yes, I use washables!

rustyjemma

Surly washing a mooncup in the water you wash yourself & clothes in is fine. after all you you ask your partners to go & sterilize themselves before ...?

Again Im ignorant so...enlighten me....!

Anyway surly providing sterilizing tabets would also be cheaper than the sanitary wear long term?

Gingham_Ribbon

Skin is clean without the need to boil wash it (fortunately!) A thorough wash in hot, clean water would probably be fine. I used diaphragms for 10 years without boiling them, but obviously the 'time' that the mooncup is used means that there is more risk of infection) The problem is the availability of hot, clean water and disinfectants.