The Undercovers Blog
In 2024, UC Berkeley researchers published the first-ever study measuring what's actually in tampons. The FDA investigated and concluded the levels were not high enough to cause harm. But that's not really the story. The story is that nobody checked what was in them until 2024...
Most of us know the moment - You sneeze, laugh hard, or run for the train, and for a split second you think: “Urgh, did I just leak?!”
If you have, congratulations, you're a person with a body! From light bladder leakage after childbirth to heavy days that make you plan your whole life around a bathroom map, it's all normal and common.
Here's a brief history of period products and how we went from rags to revolution, and back again!
A Sustainable Choice Fun fact: Around 7 billion tampons and 12 billion pads end up in landfill each year. The average person with a period contributes 11,000 single-use products in their lifetime. That’s a lot of waste, and a lot...
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March is Endometriosis Awareness Month. It is an important time to raise awareness about this debilitating condition that affects 1 in 7 women by the age of 49 (that’s almost 1 million Australians!) Endometriosis occurs when endometrial tissue, which normally...
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