Later Kotex tampons: Fibs (started 1930s)
and Comfortube (1967).
See more Kotex items: First ad
(1921; scroll to bottom of page) - ad 1928 (Sears
and Roebuck catalog) - Lee Miller ads (first
real person in a menstrual hygiene ad, 1928) - Marjorie
May's Twelfth Birthday (booklet for girls, 1928, Australian edition;
there are many links here to Kotex items) - Preparing
for Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls; Australian edition) - 1920s
booklet in Spanish showing disposal method
- box from about 1969 -
"Are you in the know?" ads
(Kotex) (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) -
See more ads on the Ads for Teenagers main page
DIRECTORY of all topics (See also the
SEARCH ENGINE, bottom
of page.)
Comic strip: A conservative American
family visits the (future) Museum of Menstruation
 
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Nunap and fax: the first Kotex menstrual tampons? (early-to-mid
1930s, U.S.A.)
The instructions
The Procter & Gamble company generously donated the Nunap box
to the museum as part of a larger gift; and a
woman living near Chicago, who wanted to remain anonymous, gave the museum
the fax box as well as many other early tampon items.
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Below: The Nunap
instructions - front and back of a folded piece
of paper, the next two pictures, below - say that Cellucotton, which Kotex
was made of, comprise the tampon "body," today called the plug.
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Above: I enlarged this side to allow reading
of the text on the right.
Twenty-four hours is not how long a woman should wear a tampon today,
and reflect the supposed lack of bad effects noticed by users and doctors.
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Below are the fax instructions,
printed on both sides of the two paper envelopes containing five tampons
each in the box.
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Below: The fax
instructions, which are on both sides of the package. See their color in
the lower-most picture. Item 6 reveals that the tampon is made of cellulose,
which is what Cellucotton - the K-C creation for Kotex - was.
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Look at the color of the text and bag, below, which age might
have changed.
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