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Materials used to make tampons
Egyptian medical records that described tampons comprised of material derived from the papyrus plant. -
Arrival on shelves
By the mid-1930’s, the Tampax had arrived on store shelves. -
o.b. Tampon
Esser-Mittag partnered with another doctor, Carl Hahn to start a company and market the o.b. Tampon, which stands for "one binde" or "without napkins" in German. The company was later sold to Johnson & Johnson. -
Tampon eviction
The factory that TAMPAX leased in New Jersey was sold to Johnson & Johnson. The new owners, competitors who manufactured their own brand of tampons as well as external pads, gave TAMPAX six months to vacate the premises. -
Increase in tampon use
A continuous survey of 749 drug stores finds an increase [in tampon use] all over the country, with 1943 sales about five times those of 1936. -
TSS
Most of the women to were too young to have experienced the Toxic Shock scare of the early eighties which was associated with Rely tampons, which was a new super-absorbent synthetic brand of tampons which led to the Toxic Shock deaths of thirty-eight women in 1980 alone before it was taken off the market by its manufacturer -
Compact tampons
There are a variety of tampons today. One is the compact tampon.It helps absorb more.
