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Making the Switch

Making the switch…Kelsey

Making the switch…Kelsey

Kelsey spent 7 weeks interning here at The Eco Femme headquarters in early 2017, here, she shares her journey from first period to her diagnosis of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (You can read a more detailed piece about her journey with PCOS here). Our thanks to...

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Make The Switch… Natasha

Make The Switch… Natasha

Eco Femme Communications Manager, Natasha, shares her story on switching to sustainable menstrual products for better health. Periods have always carried a negative connotation in my head, largely owing to the painful cramps that keep me bedridden on my first two...

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Making the Switch…Jharna

Making the Switch…Jharna

Eco Femme ambassador, Jharna, shares her story on switching to sustainable menstrual products and becoming a menstrual health educator. I have always had a decent, mildly painful, only 5 day long period and had no physical reasons to make a switch to sustainable...

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Making the Switch…Frederique

Making the Switch…Frederique

  For our French campaign this week, 'Du Rouge Au Vert' - Eco Femme ambassador and retailer, Frédérique shares her making the switch story in French (English translation below) Comment je suis passé d’une consommation de produits d’hygiène jetables à une...

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10 reasons to switch to cloth pads

10 reasons to switch to cloth pads

1. They’re lovely and soft against your skin so you hardly feel like you’re wearing a pad. 2. They’re flexible so they mould to the curve of your body and move with you. 3. There’s no sticky backing so you never get your pubic hair agonisingly pulled if you get your...

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Making the Switch…Kavya

Kavya Menon, a biotechnology graduate from IIT Madras, worked with rural communities to understand the need for menstrual hygiene, addressed taboos and introduced simple home remedies during her SBI Youth Fellowship tenure. Currently, she resides in Chennai, and...

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Making the switch…Melanie

Former Eco Femme team member, Melanie, shares her story with us. Merci Melanie! 🙂 It's been a while now that I promised my colleague Laura I'd sit down and tell my story on switching to sustainable menstrual products...Today is the day! I'm now 24 years old and I...

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Making the switch…Yael

  Our ambassador in Israel, Yael shares her making the switch story... Well, the first time I got to know this beautiful idea, was during the time I was a nature activist. I volunteered for 3 years in a non profitable green organization in a commune life. We were...

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Making the switch…Hattie

One of our UK ambassadors, Hattie, shares her making the switch story. Thanks Hattie! My journey into making the switch from disposable to reusable sanitary products began with a desire to cut down on the amount of waste I produced as an individual. I didn't realise...

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Making the switch…Kathy

Eco Femme co-founder Kathy shares her making the switch story... When I moved to India to live in Auroville 18 years ago, one of the first things that I found myself having to contend with was how to dispose of my sanitary waste. In the west, there is at least the...

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Making the switch…Parul

Eco Femme supporter Parul shares her story... I was fortunate enough to have parents who didn't consider menstruation a taboo and I could freely talk about it at home. Moreover, at school, we had an orientation programme for the same to acquaint young girls about safe...

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Making the Switch…Rajasi

Rajasi shares her making the switch story. Thank you for sharing Rajasi! It's been 15 years I'm bleeding and I decided to write a reflection about it. I remember how my mother had handed me my grandmas' old saree and taught me how to use cloth. The cloth folds were...

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Making the switch…Jane

UK ambassador and founder of Woman's Wheel, Jane shares her making the switch story...   My story about making the switch starts with me standing at my bright red front door in North Wales in 2012! My rucksack was packed and I grabbed my helmet before locking the...

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Making the switch…Laura

Eco Femme team member Laura, shares how she came to make the switch. Thinking back to the first time I learned of my fate as a female makes me laugh. I must have been around 10 or 11 and my mother told me that soon I would start bleeding every month and would continue...

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Making the switch…Caroline

One of our UK ambassadors and founder of Campaign for Cloth, Caroline shares her making the switch story.   I’m relatively new to the wonders of reusable pads, but after nearly two years of using them I can honestly say I will never use disposables again. I used...

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Making the switch…Laurie

In the first of our 'Making the switch' blog posts, Eco Femme volunteer Laurie recounts her earliest experiences of menstrual education and how this shaped her experience.   Upon questioning what made me make the switch, my logical and inquisitive mind (OK, not...

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