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What You Need to Know About the Disposal of Feminine Care Items

Public bathrooms… not always a great experience! I’m sure just saying those two words brings about a number of images. Public restrooms can be dirty, smelly and just plain gross to use for several reasons (more reasons than I can list here today). So, after visiting a Washington State Ferry Terminal restroom and being pleasantly surprised to find a new way to help keep bathrooms sanitary I had to share.

One of the “ewww” factors for public restrooms can be the improper disposal of feminine care items. Sometimes they are thrown on the floor; sometimes they are not wrapped up before depositing in the receptacle (if there is one) and sometimes the receptacle itself is soiled from previous use making it unsanitary to touch. These issues made me all the more intrigued to find the ferry system doing something different. They had installed a dispenser providing each user their very own sanitary disposal bag. Simply grab a bag, insert your used item (tampon, pad, panty liner, menstrual cup, etc.), tie and toss in the trash. No more touching dirty receptacles!

Realizing how convenient these would be to have on hand for those times a receptacle is not provided (like many elementary school restrooms) or instances where the facilities are too dirty to use, I contacted Ann Germanow (founder of this great product called Scensibles) to discuss the possibility of us carrying them at Be Prepared Period.

Just a short time later we received our first shipment. So, with much excitement we can officially announce that consumer packs can now be found in our store! Just click on “Scensibles” for a direct link.

With Ann’s years of experience in this area we asked her to share some tips on the proper disposal of feminine care items: Read the rest of this entry »

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Thursday, August 30th, 2012

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$40 Earthy Crunchy Mama Gift Certificate Giveaway!!

September 14th we’ll be celebrating the Back to School season with our wonderful co-host You ARE Loved with a Back to School: Periods 101 Tweet Chat. One of our special guests this month will be Jenn Leggett, Chief Executive Mama at Earthy Crunchy Mama.

EarthyCrunchyMama.com is a website committed to making earthy crunchy mamas’ lives a bit easier through detailed product reviews, a library of articles to guide your pursuits, and a store full of hand-selected products.

Jenn has generously given us a $40 Earthy Crunchy Mama Gift Certificate to giveaway to one lucky participant help promote the chat.

Be sure to check out her site and all that she has to offer at EarthyCrunchyMama.com

*With this giveaway being designed to promote our upcoming TweetChat, Friday, September 14, 2012 the winner must be present to win. (Present, being defined by posting at least one #PeriodTalk tweet between 1:40 and 2:40pm Eastern on September 14th, 2012.) Read the rest of this entry »

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Thursday, August 16th, 2012

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Scensibles: A Personal Disposal Bag Giveaway!!

September 14th we’ll be celebrating the Back to School season with our wonderful co-host You ARE Loved with a Back to School: Periods 101 Tweet Chat. And thanks to Ann Germanow, founder of Scensibles we have another great giveaway to offer.

One concern many parents have is their daughter’s feminine hygiene while at school. An issue that can be magnified when there is a lack of receptacles in girls bathrooms (especially at elementary school levels). This makes Scensibles a perfect giveaway for September’s topic. To help promote and encourage participation in next month’s chat we’ll be giving away a box of Scensibles to two lucky winners.

What are Scensibles?
Scensibles are sanitary disposal bags specially designed for safe, easy and clean disposal of feminine care products—sanitary pads, tampons and applicators, disposable cups (like Softcups), personal care wipes, and panty liners. Scensibles are personal size oxo-biodegradable scented plastic bags with a contemporary pink on pink design, tie handle closure and built in antimicrobial agents to inhibit the growth of odor causing bacteria.

A few reasons you may want to try Scensibles:

“Sanitary”napkin receptacles in women’s restrooms have the highest isolation of harmful germ/virus contamination and the risk of exposure to blood borne pathogens is overlooked
Tampons cause toilet clogs and result in expensive plumbing bills!
Reduce unpleasant odors
Lessen damage to sewer or septic systems and sewage treatment plants; and reduce pollution of our waterways, lakes and oceans.

For more information on Scensibles or to purchase yours today, click “here.“

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Wednesday, August 15th, 2012

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Welcome to Womanhood Giveaway!

September 14th we will be celebrating the Back to School season with our wonderful co-host You ARE Loved with a Back to School: Periods 101 Tweet Chat. One of our special guests this month will be Samantha Kelly, founder of Funky Goddess (an Irish business with a similar goal of helping young girls prepare for womanhood). Samantha has generously given us one of her Welcome to Womanhood gift boxes to giveaway to help promote the chat.

Welcome to Womanhood

The Welcome to Womanhood gift box includes:

Teen Pads
Pretty Journal
Eye Mask
Bubble Bath
Discreet Case
Information Booklet
Hot Water Bottle
Lip Balm

You can feel safe in the knowledge that your daughter will have all the information she needs and will rejoice in knowing that she is now part of the elite womanhood realm!

“As a mother of two daughters I often think about the day I will need to have that “First Period Chat” with them, which if I’m honest, actually scares me as my mother didn’t have one with me. I had to learn as I went along and kinda deal with it on my own as I knew what it was from talks at school but I was always too scared to ask my mother about things like that. I don’t want my girls to be like I was, I want them to be able to ask me anything. Periods are a completely normal part of every woman’s life and just like Funky Goddess says, we should Welcome them to Womanhood.” – Christine

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Monday, August 13th, 2012

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Fat – Why You Need It!

by Nicole Jardim

When I was younger I tried a different diet almost every week. No surprise really, I was a teenager in the 90′s – the decade of low-fat/no-fat foods. Remember Snackwells? Yeah, I was all over those things! When I was about 15 I read that one should not consume more than 25 grams of fat a day, and just like that, fat became the enemy to be avoided at all costs! For years I would constantly aim for as little fat as possible, always trying to stay as far under 25 grams as I could.

Fast forward to my early 20′s. I started to develop some MAJOR health issues that I could not figure out! I was constantly sick, had achy joints, my digestion had gone from bad to worse and my menstrual health was a disaster. I went to countless doctors but all the tests came back normal. According to the docs I was fine. However, I was not feeling fine. It’s not like I was lying in a hospital bed but I felt unhealthy even though I kept being told that I was okay. In addition to my major issues, my skin and eyes were dry and my hair and nails were a brittle mess. No matter how much water I drank I still felt dehydrated and it seemed that the food I was eating wasn’t being absorbed.

Let’s just say that this period in my life served as my wake-up call. Since that time I’ve cleaned up my diet and lifestyle significantly. I kicked the processed junk-food habit and starting eating a LOT more veggies and whole grains. But fat? Sure I’d cook with olive oil and eat avocados once in awhile but that was the extent of it.

Two and a half years ago I was introduced to Sally Fallon (author of Nourishing Traditions and founder of the Weston A. Price foundation) through The Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Her presentation totally changed my perspective on fat. Read the rest of this entry »

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Monday, August 6th, 2012

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