Egypt: use softened papyrus leaves as tampon. In 1550 B.C., there was a record in Egypt of putting soft cloth into a woman's vagina to prevent pregnancy, and experts concluded that the soft cloth was also used to cope with menstruation, probably the first generation of sanitary napkins we can know.

 China: Chinese women use a long white cloth towel to absorb blood under the body during menstruation and wash it with water and alum after replacement

 Greece: wrapped in linen on wood as tampons.

 Africa: women in some places use soft feathers and cloth pads under the body, and collect used feathers and cloth pieces in small buckets.

 USA: The modern version of the sanitary napkin was allegedly invented by an American man who loved his wife very much. He inadvertently found that the clean cotton fiber and absorbent pulp were wrapped in soft cloth. It can effectively alleviate the pain and inconvenience of the wife's menstrual period. The cotton pad became popular in Europe and the United States in the 1940s and gradually developed into disposable materials

 It is also said that ancient women, because there is no tampon to use, so in cave-in women, sometimes directly with sea sponges, or with grass and other things made into tampons.

Washable Stage

 In the nineteenth century, when women entered the "washable tampon" stage, they packed cotton or rags into bags and made them into so-called "rag bags" for use as tampons. In addition to the use of rag bags, women of that age wore "sanitary aprons" between their hips and clothes (with a rubber pad the size of a half apron, a piece of cotton cloth, and then around the waist, the cotton cloth attached to the rubber pad around the buttocks, and then fixed with safety pins or hoists), so it was always inconvenient menstrual days.

 Abandoned phase 

Until World War I invented "fiber cotton ", which was added to other product applications, including disposable bandages and their extended products. Nurses will start using gauze cotton or wrapped cloth, making their own "abandoned tampons ", and tampons were born. In the 20th century, some companies began producing tampons, with women fixing tampons with safety pins or physiological bands (" physiological bands "are similar to those of a garter tied to the waist, with a belt in front of the pudenda, a belt around the hips, and a safety pin or a sling)

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