GladRags Gab

We like to hear of women doing awesome stuff in the world. It is just icing on the cake when they happen to enjoy the comfort of GladRags alternative menstrual products at the same time! Here’s a testimonial from one group of adventursome GladRags devotees:

We’re Rachel, Carla, and Jess, three botany field interns at Death Valley National Park. We plot vegetation throughout the park and spend most of our time in the wilderness. The menstrual cup makes our lives easier.
After spending a week or more in the field, the idea of carrying around our bloody disposable products in order to pack them out of pristine wilderness areas seems unpleasant. There’s the smell, which is not only foul for us, but also attracts animals like mountain lions and coyotes. We already have compost stinking up our gear. With cups, we don’t have to carry around a period’s supply of disposables in our already limited space and we don’t have to triple bag the used items with more disposable things to take home and add to our local landfill. As far as comfort goes, in the harsh desert climate the cup makes the most sense. The desert’s dry already, we’re glad we don’t have to shove dry tampons up our ‘ginas. Gladrags, thanks for offering us a great deal on menstrual alternatives. You’ve certainly improved our lives for the better!

The kits available at GladRags are the way to go if you are trying to get the best value for your dollar. We’re reintroducing our Deluxe Kits to include 4 Pantyliners. Now with the purchase of one item you can get a whole cycle’s worth of the different pads we offer. We also retooled our Pad Sampler Kit to include the Carry Bag. The Carry Bag is super convenient and can be an essential part of the transition into fully incorporating the use of reusables into ones life. Both of these kits are available in Conventionaly grown Color cotton as well and Organic Undyed cotton. Come check out GladRags.com today!

The first truly rainy day of the season has arrived here in Portland and with that in mind, we’ve decided that we could all use something extra warm and comforting to snuggle-up to.

The Comfort Back Pac by Herbal Concepts is filled with premium flax seeds and all-natural aromatherapeutic herbs such as chamomile, lavender, spearmint, rosemary and valerian among others. These flannel pacs can be heated in the microwave as the perfect answer to those cold fall days and nights!

Purchase your Comfort Back Pac in the month of October and receive 20% off the regular price!

October Monthly Friend: Rose

Hometown: Boulder, Colorado
Current Location: Los Angeles, California
Age: 21
What she does: New to the LA area, she is about to attend the second round of an intensive program of acting classes.

Interests: Her many interests include reading and crocheting. She loves to go out dancing and sometimes bowling with her friends. And of course, true to the California girl she is quickly becoming, she loves going to the beach and shopping.
Dreams: Rose dreams of being a successful actress, accepting roles in which she can express the deep passion she feels for life. She wants to be financially secure and looks forward to traveling as well as getting married and having kids. She also dreams of paying her parents back for all their help. Roses also has a personal goal of writing a book someday.

How long she has used menstrual alternatives: About six months.

Reason for switching: Upon hearing about the various options available for her, they sounded better for the earth and also more convenient. Rose religiously uses the Moon Cup, as she was a loyal tampon user. She found the Moon Cup really comfortable as well way more convenient than tampons. She also uses the GladRags Pantyliners on occasion, but finds that she hardly needs to use them except for at the end of her cycle because her Moon Cup doesn’t leak or give her any reason to need a back-up.

Rose was so smitten with her menstrual cup at first use that she has recommended them to many of her friends. She says that not one of her friends had heard about menstrual alternatives, in fact many of them thought it was super weird. In the past few months she has convinced three people to try menstrual cups and they have all love them and would never go back to conventional menstrual solutions.