Menstrual cups vs tampons – here's how they compare
- Written by Melissa Kang, Associate professor, University of Technology Sydney
Tampons absorb menstrual fluid whereas menstrual cups collect it.Yulia Grigoryeva/Shutterstock
Around one-quarter of the world’s population menstruate. That’s more than 1.9 billion people in the world who will bleed, on average, for 65 days a year.
The reusable menstrual cup and disposable tampon were both developed in the 1930s. But...
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