Comments on: Crochet Tampons…Really?!

By: Chelsea

Chelsea — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:01:08 +0000

The cotton of crochet tampons is extremely soft if you get the right type. You can’t feel it at all. It’s a lot more comfortable to insert than the OB tampons I used to use. There is no chafing if you know what you are doing. That’s the key… know what you are doing. I think maybe this is something for expert crocheters who really understand how to make appropriate crochet items correctly. It’s not for beginners and Red Heart acrylic yarn and a H hook! LOL

By: Chelsea

Chelsea — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:56:22 +0000

Well by all means don’t crochet a tampon if your crochet skills are so bad that your tampon is falling apart. Although you don’t sound to me like a beginner that would make such mistakes. I really don’t see how loose fibers can happen when it’s one continuous cotton string you crochet with so there isn’t any loose pieces anywhere. I guess it depends on your level of crochet skills and your knowledge of appropriate crochet thread. But you are right the moon cup and other similar devices ( I have one such ) are pretty good. Mine slips down and that little handle thing is uncomfortable and at just the right sitting position it downright hurts. I’ve tried all sizes and every advice… nothing works. I think it all depends on your age and if you’ve given birth before. Everyone’s lady parts are different.

By: Chelsea

Chelsea — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:45:51 +0000

About crochet tampons – They are rectangular that you roll into a tampon shape so they wash out just fine when unrolled. As for fiber… LOL.. organic cotton is completely harmless in every way. Your disposables are made of the scary stuff that is harmful to you. They actually include chemicals that make you bleed heavier and longer so you have to buy more tampons. Look it up if you don’t believe me. The FDA does nothing to stop them.
About cloth pads on the go – You buy or make a waterproof zipper bag. I bought one for mothers to put diapers in their handbags. It’s on Amazon still I think. If you don’t mind using the plastic you can also tuck ziplock sandwich bags in there so each one is individually sealed up. After all what do you think purses are for? Decoration? LOL

By: Chelsea

Chelsea — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:34:47 +0000

Crochet tampons are great. It’s actually not a bullet shaped thing. It’s a crochet rectangle type shape that you roll up & has a string on center. It’s exactly like the OB style safe tampons that prevent Toxic Shock or whatever they call that deadly disease these days. To correct all of you… These tampons are SAFER and more sanitary than your gross disposables that leech dioxins and chemicals inside of you. Obviously not many of you are mothers or you’d understand that carrying around gross stuff in discreet plastic zip bags is just a part of female life. What you do is simple place a small diaper pail with a solution of 1 cup vinegar, 1 gallon water and a few drops of tea tree oil next to your toilet. Remove, open the pail, give the string a couple shakes to unroll the tampon, then drop it in. At the end of the cycle drop them into a washing machine. I also use baby washcloths as moist towelettes so it all goes in together. I add some of the safe bleach alternative. Dry in the dryer. Roll them back up and put them in a pouch for next month. No more infections, no more risk of toxic shock, no more spending hundreds of dollars per year and I’m saving the planet. It’s only one wash load so the environmental impact of that little water/soap is negligible. You gals need to get in touch with your body and stop thinking something natural is something yuckie. What is yuckie is the filth and pollution you are inserting in yourselves. Sorry but it’s true. Google dioxin and see what it does to you. Sometimes I wonder if dioxin effects on the brain are not the cause of all this illogical thinking that dismisses perfectly good ideas without thinking about them.

By: Dana

Dana — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 06:30:11 +0000

Reusable menstrual products for the win! I’ve been using them for 6 years and LOVE them! I wouldn’t be opposed to a reusable tampon either.

By: Sanguine

Sanguine — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:09:19 +0000

While I wouldn’t use a crocheted tampon (can you say chafing and OUCH!!!!) I am considering making up some reusable pads. If not simply for the enviromental factor, then look at it from a ‘We can barely afford food, ho the hell can we buy disposable feminine needs?’ standpoint. It may sound gross, but some people literally can’t afford to be squeamish about such things.

By: Danie

Danie — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:53:41 +0000

A lot of people are grossed out by this, the mooncups and reusable cloth pads, but the truth is, there’s a group of us out there that doesn’t use these things to save money OR for environmental reasons. Personally, I can’t use store-bought pads or tampons. The products they use to bleach them and all that jazz really irritate me and I end up with a lot of discomfort because of it. Even the ‘organic’ ones seem to bug me. I’ve never really attempted to crochet tampons, but I wouldn’t rule it out. I have, however, made pads, and they’re totally awesome. I also found that they’re better for my heavy flow…you can make ones that have a lot of absorbency if you use the right materials!

By: Kerstin

Kerstin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:02:24 +0000

Though liking crocheting very much, I would not crochet a tampon… partly, because (as someone has pointed out above) of the fibre that could loosen and stay in (and then cause heavy illness), partly because since last year I use a menstruation cup [Lunette Selene, small size; I cut off the stem] and would never give it away again!
You don’t feel it, it does only need a change every 6 – 8 hours (or longer in the weaker days), there is no smell, you can clean it with a bit of water (and after the period with a bit of cleaning alcohol or a very small pot of boling water), and it will last at least for 10(!) years.

But crocheting a panty liner would be good, because sometimes (but very very seldom) little drops of mucosa get out of the cervix before you have inserted or reinserted the cup, and this can cause little stains.

I think, that will be one of my future projects: a cotton-yarn rectangle of 20 x 7,5 cm with decreasing and increasing stitches in the middle part, plus additional half-circles (with a button), which can be sewn to the liner, as „wings“ to fasten the liner to the panty.

So, thanks for bringing up the subject – otherwise I would probably not have thought about a crocheted panty liner!

Greetings,

Kerstin

By: Cathy

Cathy — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:37:53 +0000

Hey Rachel,
I don’t use tampons only pads but this sounds as some of the other women said yuck. About as intimate as I get with crochet is a washcloth lol.
I have made a bikini before but that’s close enough to my whowho as it gets.
I am almost 47 years old and like you Karen I am on a very fixed income but also going thru the change. I have to wear pads everyday. The cloth ones sound comfy but not convenient. I feel for the women who had to wear them and wash them but I’ll stick to disposables. My daughter in law thinks the government should give women their products for free lol.

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:11:24 +0000

Hey Amy,

What you do is put the used cloth pad in a waterproof draw-string bag (or ziploc bag) and then put that in your handbag/whatever bag you have with you. Then you can wash it when you get home.
Lots of the sites that sell cloth pads sell the waterproof bags and also cloth pouches/bags to put a spare unused pad in.

You could also make the cloth bag yourself if you fancied.