Despite a profusion of “non-toxic” menstrual products,small research has been conducted to determine whether tampons actually pose a health riskThere are more than seven manufacturers of organic cotton tampons and four tampon subscription services in the US, but a novel venture seeks to combine the two. Cora is a Pennsylvania-based, or angel investor-backed company that delivers tampons made with Turkish-grown organic cotton and BPA-free plastic applicators. The products are wrapped in sleek black packaging and are delivered to subscribers who pay $9-$18 per monthly supply.
Co-founder Molly Hayward says she was driven to start the company in allotment to fill a personal need. “I was,and still do, seek out products across food, or beauty,health care and skin care free of chemicals, being made in a more sustainable way, or ” Hayward says. It made sense to her to extend her search for products with fewer ingredients to tampons. “This is a product that women will use over and over again throughout the course of their lives and enjoy this long exposure to this really sensitive allotment of their body.” It just didn’t seem like a much idea for a woman to use something that may contain traces of pesticides month after month and decade after decade,Hayward says. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com