Zara's World of Women's Health

Still using those plastic bags for shoppping? Use a FUROSIKI instead!

2010-06-17T06:33:00.001-07:00

Reusing plastic bags or using reusable ones is a good way to take a little bit of care af the environment. Here is a very old, or traditional if you like this word more, way of carrying things and enjoying a multifunctional convertible and reusable all-in-one. It is a mare 3"*3" piece of strong fabric - buy a colorful coupon or decorate a denim cut. Learn these ways or wrapping and enjoy it in any and every situation where you need a bag, a shawl, a baby-carriage, a color or a leash for your dog, or even a pareo:

What's outside? Part 2. Wrapping

2010-03-09T14:32:00.000-08:00

Ok. We opened the pack and took a pad to... To do what? There would usually be two options: to use it right away or to through it into our h-bag into the wonderful and practically never arranged chaos of coins, hair brushes, lip-sticks or nail polishes, cookie wraps and crumbs, business agendas and cards and whatever not. All those nice things live in peace and mix in our bags for ages. Further on the pad might be placed in the office locker or drawer to be finally used to its original purpose sooner or later. By that time the plastic wrapper will have been exposed to all dust and waste particles we have in our bags, pockets, drawers and glove compartments in the car. How come? Because the standard wrapping is not practically never sealed! A tiny locking sticker prevents it from unfolding, but not from bacteria that will later on be placed right to the area that we most of us try to keep in the most hygienic conditions possible. Is there a way to improve this situation? You can: clean you hands and bag and drawer and glove compartment every time you are going to place there a new pad. Or you can put the pad into another wrap. Or you can use the Winelite pad that is SEALED. More over it is sterile. Which means that till you tear the wrap to use the pad, it is kept ideally hygienic!!!! Give it a try and you'll see the difference

What's outside? Part 1. Packaging

2010-03-03T14:01:00.000-08:00

The aisle of female hygiene in any supermarket or drug mart is always stuffed with all kinds of 4-5 pantyliner and pads. How are they packed? In a plastic wrap that will never be re-sealed once open.
It has never occurred to me that yes, I definitely care that the band-aids that I use should be thoroughly packed in a box and sealed in individual wraps. But never in my life I thought that a hygienic pad should also be packed in a resealable bag. Why should they be? First, it would definitely protect this hygienic means from dust and humidity and any other influence of my bathroom - that's the place where we usually keep them, right? This combination of humidity with whatever helps bacteria flourish. And, second, it would look much neater than that loose pack I've been using for ages. Look at this pack from Winalite - looks cool and stylish, does not it? And it is so functional! In what way?
Look:

The foil that the Winalite is using is certified for food industry. It does not have any chemicals that will penetrate the pads even in minor quantities to affect my precious health later on;

It is resealable!! Is there any other brand in the market that use a similar packaging that protects the pads that we call hygienic from humidity that is the best friend of whatever bacteria;

It looks nice. I'm not conceited but why not have these pads that are essential in our girls' live in a nice packaging?

Can there be anything new about hygienic pads?

2010-03-01T12:50:00.000-08:00

Have you, ladies, ever thought what that is we all are using daily and monthly made from? What is its structure and what are the source materials? And how all those materials affect our girls' health when placed at the most intimate spot? I should confess I never did till recently.
The marketing research projects I did for my customers helped me to find out that the liquid in the beer bottles is whatever but not the real beer. That the bottled water is pretty much the same as the tap one. So no wonder that when I came across the hygienic pads I got some most astonishing results.
Did you know that the absorbing layer was initially made with wood pulp that gave way to recycled paper later on? This recycled paper is still there in the pads that we are using in the off-shelves brands. It is processed and bleached. Placed between other two layers of plastic - and here we go! A nice convenient and not too expensive container to grow billiards of intoxicating bacteria right at the place that we try to protect from them the most!