Goods 4 Girls-- sanitary supplies....

[bunnyjadwiga]

After having spent a goodly amount of time thinking about sanitary supplies for menstruation in pre-modern cultures, I feel obliged to talk about the movement to donate new, unused, reusable sanitary pads for young women in developing countries. Crunchy Chicken came up with this idea:
http://www.goods4girls.org/

Great idea. However, I've never tried to make/use something of this sort, so the instructions she points to are driving me batty. I want something that tells me what kind of fabric and where I can likely get it, as well as patterns. I think this is a great idea, but I really am not in a position to research the entire reusable hygiene supplies movement before doing this.

If someone who is familar with these has clearer instructions or comments on a particular pattern that make them easier to figure out, maybe we can get a group together to make a bunch of these and ship 'em out. (P.S. what keeps them from twisting around, by the way?)

Comments

[paquerette.livejournal.com]

For absorbant layers, hemp is golden but cheap cotton flannel works. I think I use about 8 layers of flannel. I cut up old nighties so it's threadbare, but if you get new flannel you can probably use less.

I have used felted wool for backing, and polar fleece. With fleece you have to make sure you have the repelling side the right way.

I think PUL is the most common backing, though.

http://www.celticclothswholesale.com/ has supplies.