Cloth menstrual pads are better for the environment, easy on the pocket book, and so much more comfortable than paper and plastic pads.
If you menstruate for 33 years (age 12-45) and you use about 20-25 pads per cycle, you will throw away 8,000-10,000 pads!
Using cloth pads will save the environment.
That's a lot of trash - and a lot of money and resources in the landfills. Any time we throw away something after one use we are throwing away resources. The average woman will throw away almost 300 pounds of disposable menstural products in her lifetime. Cloth pads require only an extra small load of laundry or two each month and can last 5-7 years or more. Compare a dozen cloth pads to the mountain of tampons or disposables necessary for 5-7 years!
Using cloth pads will save you money.
You will need from 6-24 pads in your stash. Cost of 7 years worth of cloth pads: $30-180
Cost of 7 years worth of disposables at an average of $7/month: $588 Cost of 30 years worth of cloth pads: $150-900 Cost of 30 years of disposables: $2,940
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