Let's be real: we talk about period cramps. We talk about heavy bleeding. But there’s a massive, uncomfortable, and often embarrassing part of the menstrual cycle that we constantly sweep under the rug: period-related digestive chaos. If you’ve ever experienced a...
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New York Sets An Example for the Nation on Menstrual and Gender Equity in Legislation
New York has taken a monumental step toward ensuring gender equity in legislation. Last month New York City passed the first bill of it's kind in the nation to provide free tampons and pads to all public schools, prisons, and shelters for those individuals most in...
5 Ways to Prevent Yeast Infections During the Summer
Summer brings sunshine, sand, water, sunscreen, and sometimes even scandal. Who doesn't dream of romantic walks on the beach, lingering looks with a mystery stranger while soaking the hot tub, or fighting the waves with your partner/ random bronzed hottie? No matter...
#FWOTM: Nadya Okamoto, Founder of Camions of Care
Brown paper grocery bags, dirty napkins, toilet paper wads, and scraps of cloth; this is what women without the means are using to stop their period flow. It's a tale as old as time and one that stretches across all corners of the globe, tying individuals together...
Depression and Vaginal Health: Another reason to use your voice!
The vagina is "not just a sex organ at all, but a powerful mediator of female confidence, creativity and the sense of the connections between things," writes Naomi Wolf, summarizing her book, Vagina: A New Biography. Her recent work explores the concept of the brain...
Pride Prom and Periods; Exploring the Transgender Exclusion Experience
Although the word men is in the word menstruation, men and other transgender individuals with gender-fluid identities have largely been excluded from the topics surrounding periods. It's understandable as the common misconception is that only women deal with menses,...
A Birthday and Menstrual Hygiene Day Gift That Will Benefit Over 33,000 Women
We're closing out this menstrual madness of a month with a HUGE announcement in honor of our birthday, this Saturday's Menstrual Hygiene Day and to take our #FierceWomenFunded initiative to the max! Maxim Hygiene Donates 280,000 Tampons to Camions of Care Just last...
#FWOTM Double Header: Celeste Mergens of Days for Girls, Saving Education
Every girl. Everywhere. Period. That's the Days for Girls (DfG) motto because all over the world, young girls are forced to miss days of school each month due to irregular, unsustainable, and inadequate menstruation management. Girls use leaves, mattress stuffing,...
#FWOTM: Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, The Queen of Menstrual Equity
While we like to call ourselves Green Feminine Hygiene Queens when it comes to specifically defining our fierce woman mission of providing healthy organic and natural feminine hygiene products, we reign our commonwealth for women's health in the good company of others...
Coming to a School Near You…Teaching Girls About Menstruation
Two years ago our company's Chief Flow Rider/Co-Founder taught a group of green feminine hygiene tweens at Bronx Park Middle School about #healthymenstruation practices via these menstrual care experiments that have been at the core of Maxim Hygiene's product...
3 Ways to Make Your Voice Heard
Earlier this year, in the spirit of our #FierceWoman icon of the year, Malala Yousafzai, we set our intention for 2016 to be Exercising Your Feminine Voice and encouraged our readers and ourselves to ask how we would use that voice to create positive change. We wanted...