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[summercomfort]

OMG, is this my period I see before me? totally exciting!! Might I possibly mature into womanhood without the aid of stimulants and dried toad eyes? GASP! If it comes for real around the 20th, I'll actually have to do research into this whole "feminine products" thing! Which vague commercial should I trust? The clinic-y one? The hipster one? The economical one? A whole new world of possibilities!! What next? Shaving?!

Oh, and now, I have a whole package of soap bars, so when it mysteriously travels to the windowsill, I can just get another one for sink-side hand-washing! No more secret ninja battles! (Over the soap, at least)

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[kaitoujeanne.livejournal.com]

I get the big jumbo packs because I don't like buying them very often (although I've had to buy them at 7-Eleven and the bookstore, and I bought bandaids too at the bookstore so it didn't look like I was just there for pads).

My roommate gets the bitty ones without applicators (we have gone grocery-and-tampon shopping together).

Once I went on a shopping trip to three different stores to buy organic cotton tampons/pads (we went really far, but the store that had them was the closest one to campus), and the girl who bought them was a smoker. (Your vagina's too good for chemicals but your lungs aren't?!)

Of course, there are also things like the Keeper and the Diva Cup, too.

[summercomfort]

::blinkblink::

now I'm completely confused. What are the benefits of organic cotton thingamamies? And there are bitty tampons without applicators? The Adult World... so confuzzling...

[kaitoujeanne.livejournal.com]

As far as I know, the benefits of organic cotton are that you don't put chemicals into your body (some tampons have chemicals in them; I'm not sure which brands or what chemicals, but since your vagina cleans itself out daily, it doesn't really matter). Some OB tampons come without applicators, so you insert them with your finger versus using a cardboard or plastic tube to insert them.

[kitsuchan.livejournal.com]

The keeper I know of, and organic tampons, and the kind without applicators, and I even knew a girl who used sea sponges. But what on earth is the "Diva Cup"?

[kaitoujeanne.livejournal.com]

It's a menstrual cup, like the keeper. DivaCup.com (http://www.divacup.com)

[kitsuchan.livejournal.com]

I think it's time to go to the local public library and pick up one of those books on becoming an adolescent.

[summercomfort]

Back in my high school days, I liked to read ahead of the assigned readings. So I know all about that stuff. ;). But we never covered the actual important stuff. Like dating. Or sexual pleasure

[kitsuchan.livejournal.com]

That's why you need to check out one of those books. I saw several of them during my time as a librarian, and they offer advice and information on the various types of feminine hygiene products around, plus stuff you don't need to know, like how to best shave your legs.