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A.C.C. Tamponettes menstrual tampons
(1939 & earlier? The Absorbent Cotton Company, U.S.A.)
Tampon

Like most tampons from the 1930s (Tampax was an exception and later, LOX) Tamponettes came with no insertion device, which may have hindered their acceptance. The instructions do not say how to put the tampon into the vagina, leaving the reader to guess that it's her finger. That might not have been good news.

See the box (first page), instructions


SEE ALSO the directory of all tampons on this site.

Procter & Gamble kindly donated the box and contents as part of a gift of scores of menstrual products.

 

The top tampon appears as it comes from the cellophane bag, below. The tampons
come from the 1939 box; the earlier ones seem identical except for the bulged cotton
at the string end, which are more continuous in form in the earlier version.
The tampon measures 2.25" (about 6 cm) long and 0.825" (about 2.1 cm) in diameter
at the narrow end. The string is 5" (about 13 cm) long.

 

The end of the tampon shows tightly wound layers of cotton, just as with the earlier tampons.

 

The 1939 box holds two cellophane packs, above, each containing five tampons, as does the earlier box.


NEXT (instructions): See the box (first page)

See Kotex's first successful tampon, Fibs; early Kotex tampon attempts; and an early Tampax.
SEE the directory of all tampons on this site.

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