See also Australian
douche ad (ca. 1900) - Fresca douche powder (U.S.A.)
(date ?) - Kotique douche liquid ad, 1974 (U.S.A.)
- Liasan (1) genital wash ad, 1980s (Germany)
- Liasan (2) genital wash ad, 1980s (Germany)
- Lysol douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) - Lysol douche liquid ad, 1948 (U.S.A.) - Marvel
douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) - Midol menstrual
pain pill ad, 1938 (U.S.A.) - Midol booklet (selections),
1959 (U.S.A.) - Mum deodorant cream ad, 1926 (U.S.A.)
- Myzone menstrual pain pills ad, 1952 (Australia)
- Pristeen genital spray ad, 1969 (U.S.A.) -
Spalt pain tablets, 1936 (Germany) - Vionell genital spray ad, 1970, with Cheryl Tiegs (Germany)
- Zonite douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.)
The Perils of Vaginal Douching (essay by Luci
Capo Rome) - the odor page
 
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Kotex menstrual pad ad, U.S.A., 1922, (month unknown)
The Ladies Home Journal
How could you characterize the early Kotex consumers any better than
the ladies below? Other Kotex women such as this one
lent their "daintiness" to a subject most women didn't like at
all. There's a sort of irony suffusing these pictures.
Kotex replaced the common bird's-eye cloth
- diaper cloth - that many women used to soak up their menstrual discharge
although there were similar products available.
But Kotex triumphed.
The ad also discusses the Kotex vending machine,
still anchored in many women's public toilets.
I enlarged the text, below the top picture.
See the illustration enlarged.
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Below: Merriam-Webster online says
this about toilette: "from French toilette,
cloth on which items used for grooming are placed, from Middle French, piece
of batiste, from diminutive of toile cloth. Date: 1667."
The ad measures 10.5 x 14" (26.5 x 35.5 cm).
The text mentions other uses for Kotex. One today is soaking up blood from
wounds, reflecting the origin of the material.
I put enlargements of sections below the complete ad.
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Below: Look at the quotation
marks inside the period in the first sentence and elsewhere. That
breaks the silly American rule valid today but is common in Europe. I wonder
if it's a mistake or relects American style in the 1920s.
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