Maxim Hygiene Blog

At the end of April, many Indians celebrated a holiday called Akshaya Tritiya, a day considered to be so auspicious that marriages occur in mass. Both an economically efficient and culturally holy day, Akshaya Tritiya is a day when many young girls are married off in...

Nina Yousefzadeh, or as her friends call her – “Penicillin Girl,” is our feature "Fierce Woman" for the month of May. A fierce woman as we define it is a woman who sees the beauty and potential in places of hardship and suffering. Nina is May’s celebrated woman...

The past few months have been witness to a flood of legislation concerning women’s access to reproductive health – funding for birth control and contraception has been debated and vaginal ultrasounds have been used as a tool to limit the number of abortions. In fact,...

When perusing through the shelves of a market do you ever wonder how and who decides what products are worthy of valuable shelf space? As the Green Feminine Hygiene Queen, I get to travel the world meeting with buyers from all walks life who have the power to make...

Endometriosis is still a fairly unknown illness, and yet – it affects at least 6.3 million women and girls in the United States. So, why haven’t most people heard of it? The most common symptoms of endometriosis are commonly confused with the side effects of getting...

It was the morning after…Thanksgiving. I woke up to the pangs of my angry stomach. Clutching it, I tripped out of my sleeping bag and waddled bleary-eyed to the bathroom. I saw the toilet and moaned in relief – the one seemingly loose elastic of my waistband was now...