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Paid by Garnuu
From Macy Maxson, founder of Garnuu
Six reasons the organic box you already buy might be organic in one layer only, and the one line on the back that settles it in about ten seconds.
Goes to the Garnuu pads page. $11 a box, $10 on subscription.
I make Garnuu. Before that I was the one paying extra for the organic box.
I read the label every time. Organic cotton, right there on the front.
I thought those two words described the pad. The whole pad.
They describe a layer. Here are six things that follow from that, and a check you can run tonight on the box already in your bathroom.
I pulled the published ingredient lists for seven organic pads, the kind that sit on the shelf at Target or the pharmacy.
On all seven, organic cotton is assigned to the top sheet.
Some say topsheet. Some say cover. Some say top layer.
The absorbent core underneath is listed as something else, on its own line, a little further down.
Not one of the seven lists organic cotton in the core.
One box prints its own number. 7 percent organically grown cotton, under the word organic in big white letters.
Six ways of saying the cotton stops at the surface.
Nothing there breaks a rule. Those labels are accurate.
The word just comes with an address attached, and the address is the thinnest part of the pad.
The aisle will not answer this one. Every front panel says the same two words.
So it turns into twelve tabs after the house is asleep, and a box turned over under the bathroom light.
Hours of that. Over pads.
topsheet. top sheet. cover. cover pads. top layer. top layer fibers.
There is a shorter way, and it needs nobody's permission.
Go find the box already in your bathroom.
Find the ingredient list, find the words organic cotton, and read what sits next to them.
If it says top sheet, or topsheet, or cover, or top layer, that is the layer the word was covering.
The core will be a line or two below it. Read that line too.
That is the one that answers what is actually in the middle.
A pad is a stack.
A top sheet against the skin, and an absorbent core under it, the thick middle that does the holding.
What the label usually means is a thin cotton sheet over a core of super absorbent polymer, wood pulp and viscose.
The claim stops at the thinnest part.
Our list says organic cotton twice. Top sheet and core.
Organic cotton the whole way through. No super absorbent polymer, no viscose.
GOTS and ICEA both certify this cotton, and the certification covers the core rather than a surface layer.
Two independent standards on the same material is a harder thing to claim than one.
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It sits on your most sensitive skin for days every month.
Fragrance is added. Dye is added. Chlorine bleach makes the whole thing look clean.
None of it has to be disclosed the way food is, so nobody reads the label, because there is nothing on it to read.
Ours is not bleached with chlorine, not dyed and not scented, and there is no viscose or super absorbent polymer underneath it.
That is the whole list, and it is the reason ours are non irritant.
There is no technology in a pad. There is only what it is made of.
I have sensitive skin and most pads give me a rash or cause me to break out, but these don't rub or cause any rashes!
Addyson ✓ Verified buyer
Most period brands sell a box and a feeling, and the feeling is where the story stops.
A portion of every Garnuu order funds Time for Girls Global, our partner on the ground, already rooted in the communities they serve.
They reach girls where they are most vulnerable to exploitation, and they bring something practical to use this month.
8,000 girls reached so far. 57 schools. 4 countries.
Your period. Her freedom. That is the whole idea, and it is printed on the box.
Eleven dollars is not nothing for a box of pads, and I am not going to pretend the careful option costs the same as the cheap one.
$11 for a one time box. $10 a box on subscription, which is $1 off every box.
Each box holds one product: 10 Day Pads, 8 Night Pads, or 24 Panty Liners. Day and night pads are ultra thin with wings, and every one is wrapped on its own.
Pick any cadence from every month to every six months. One schedule covers the whole box.
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| Measure | What the label usually means | Garnuu pads |
|---|---|---|
| The layer the word covers | Top sheet only, on all seven | Top sheet and core |
| What the core is | Its own line, and on all seven that line was something else | Organic cotton |
| Super absorbent polymer | Usual | None |
| Viscose | Usual | None |
| What the certification reaches | A surface layer | The core, certified by GOTS and ICEA |
| Organic cotton listed in the core | 0 of 7 | Yes |
Left column describes the seven published ingredient lists read for this page, not any one brand's product.
4.7 out of 5 across 36 reviews on the pads
So far loving them! I don't get cramps with Garnuu products like I do with others. If there was a way to make the wings of the pad stick better that would be amazing! Otherwise they work great.
Leah ✓ Verified buyer, 1 year ago
Great! I like that they are thin, absorbent and stick well.
Loraly ✓ Verified buyer, 1 year ago
Fabulous product and even better cause to support. Great price and super easy subscription tailored to my needs.
Emily ✓ Verified buyer, 10 months ago
Leah's note about the wings is hers, kept in. We publish the three and four star reviews next to the five star ones.
Including mine.
So the answer is not another promise from me.
It is one line, and it works on every box in the aisle.
Every pad I read printed that line. Ours has to survive it too.
Read the one already in your bathroom. Then read ours.
The line underneath says which one, and that part takes about ten seconds.
Ours says organic cotton twice.
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