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Menstrual cycle: tracking or charting?
Your inbuilt health report card! In the hustle bustle of life, disconnection from one’s own body is inevitable. Have you ignored pain and aches in the body unsure about the root cause? Or accepted periodic energy dips and pushed through your days feeling scattered and...
The power of informed choice
(Excerpt from our interview with Maanushi Foundation) Some of the most inspiring stories from the field have been about individuals, alone or in groups, who have been able to bring about profound changes in their society through simple but effective interventions. In...
How to track your cycle and why it matters! – Part 2
How to track your cycle? There are many different ways to track your cycle - you can reference the moon and note which moon phase your bleeding starts on or you can keep a creative paper based journal noting your day 1 of bleeding and writing some words about your...
How to track your cycle and why it matters! – Part 1
by Kalvi Karunanithy and Kathy Walkling. First of all, let's understand what period tracking is. Period tracking is a powerful tool to become familiar with your menstrual cycle. We are passionate about cycle tracking and have long advocated for this...
Eco Femme – a Flower of Auroville
Eco Femme cloth pads and menstrual programs have attracted curiosity and attention from many people around the world. How did it start? Where did the idea originate? Why did two foreigners end up in India, creating this social enterprise? The thread that connects all...
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A Love Letter from our Co-founders
Eco Femme turns 10! In searching for an overarching metaphor to attempt to describe what this journey has been about, the one that jumps most naturally to mind is motherhood - so bear with us as the related metaphors start to flow! From the beginning, as our initial...
Make Your Own Cloth Pad: A Fabulous Idea…with a Caveat!
During the last few months of lockdown, many things became visible which were before concealed. One of those revelations was that disposing of sanitary waste is actually a real problem - not that we didn’t know that before - but for many people, this reality hit them...
Meet the ambassador: Tanvi
It was a first for me when girls were paraded around almost in a walk of shame, simply because of a stain. It was a first for me when we were applauded about talking in whispers about Stayfree and Whisper. As I stood performing my piece on menstruation at a...
Pads for Sisters programme
Did you know that with every pad you buy, you contribute to subsidising the price of pads sold to economically disadvantaged women in India? Our Pads for Sisters programme was launched in 2013 to make our cloth pads economically accessible to women who...
What Michaela did last summer…
Our ambassador, Michaela shared with us her experiences of promoting sustainable menstruation over the summer in Sweden. Our thanks to Michaela for sharing and if you're inspired by Michaela's work in sharing Eco Femme and discussing sustainable menstruation...
Ecofemmetastic!
A cloth pad revolution is the enterprise's dream, But who are the individuals behind the Eco Femme team? Let us begin with Kathy, for the group she co-christened, Take her wise advice to your problems, as to them, she will have listened. Alongside her, Jessamijn, with...
From our ambassador, Johanna.
We love to see how our ambassadors are getting on and wanted to share with you an event that our ambassador, Johanna, attended a few weeks back. Thanks for sharing Johanna! ???? I want to share some wonderful experiences with you. I got quite involved with this...
Wellbeeing – a new retailer in Bangalore
Wellbeeing is our newest retailer based in Bangalore. Here is a little about their work and why they were inspired to stock Eco Femme pads. Wellbeeing (a unit of Aurazia Wellness Pvt Ltd) is an integrated health and wellness centre. It is a creative and unique blend...
Our new retailer in Colombia.
An introduction today from our first Colombian Eco Femme retailer, Manuela. As always, our thanks for sharing your story! Hello, my name is Manuela Varela and I want to introduce you to Hermágica, my feminine undertaking. It was born at 2012 in Bogota, Colombia (South...
Isa and her work
We wanted to share a bit about a truly amazing lady, Isa, a nurse and environmentalist, living in Madhya Pradesh, central India. She conducts educational sessions and promotes Eco Femme pads from the rural range to village women from the surrounding area. The first 2...
Introducing Eco Store, Eco Femme’s newest retailer.
Today, we are happy to introduce Eco Store in Bangalore as our newest retailer. Our thanks to Seshu for this introduction. "The Eco Store" was started in the month of July, 2012 in Bangalore, by two Ex-IT professionals who wanted to give back something good to the...
A new retailer in Kerala.
Today we hear from Bilal who runs a shop, Arcra, in Cochin in Kerala. Our thanks for sharing Bilal! I became interested in selling and promoting Ecofemme washable pads mainly because they're environmentally friendly. There is so much waste, especially sanitary...
An introduction from one of our newest retailers:
Today, we hear from one of our newest retailers, Saravanan Varatharajan who is based in Coimbatore. Over the coming months we will be introducing some of our retailers and sharing their stories to give you an idea of the people who help us to make all this possible....
Cloth Pad Stitching – A Woman’s Gathering
Another wonderful piece from one of our ambassadors, Jane. She held a cloth pad stitching session using our Make Your Own Kits with the ladies from her Red Tent group. You can read about how the session went and once again, our thanks to Jane for her inspirational...
Meet our new Full Cycle Kit!
We are happy to present our new Full Cycle Kit! This kit introduces you to our pad range, containing different pad sizes to use during different times of your monthly cycle. Our newest kit is a great way to make the switch to a greener period and makes a great...
An introduction from one of our Ambassadors…
This is a piece written by one of our ambassadors, Jane. She runs a Red Tent womens group and uses some of that group time to talk about and demonstrate our pads. There are a number of ways to get involved as an ambassador for Eco Femme and we are so grateful to Jane...
Make Your Own Cloth Pad Stitching Kit Launch
We are proud to launch our new Eco Femme ‘Make Your Own Washable Cloth Pad Stitching Kit’! This kit includes pre-cut materials to make 3 Day Pad Plus size pads, sewing kit (including needle, thread and 3 stitch on press buttons), stitching & care instructions and...
Krupa shows us how it’s done!
Check out this video demonstrating the ease with which Eco Femme's pads can be cared for!
Eco Femme’s Anita on washing our reusable pads!
Why bother? The biggest reason I wash and reuse my cloth menstrual pads is because I cannot stand to throw disposable pads into our growing landfills. The average woman in North America throws away 16,800 pads and tampons in her lifetime! Then there are the added...
Eco Femme gets a blog!
We're going to begin blogging on a regular basis, so this is the start of something big!