PRINCESSD MENSTRUAL CUP

The aim for creating the PrincessD Menstrual Cup, which is reusable for 10 years, a “green” alternative to disposable tampons and pads was to help disadvantaged rural girls, but it was found that all girls and women who menstruate are able to benefit from this healthy, hygienic, environmentally friendly, cost-effective, and sustainable solution. Other benefits: comfortable for sports such as athletics, cycling, scuba diving, swimming, yoga, dancing, or any type of physical activity as it offers safe, secure, discreet, and leak-free protection for up to 12 hours at a time. It alleviates the embarrassment for schoolgirls from having messy dresses and the school principals love it because it ensures there are no messy toilets or blockages in toilets.

Due to unaffordability in impoverished areas, girls and women do not change their sanitary products often which results in vaginal infections. One menstrual cup is equivalent to approximately 3000-5000 sanitary pads/tampons over a 10-year cycle. The combo pack comprises a menstrual cup and a compact, foldable silicone sterilizer cup (a sterilizer cup that is safe to use, especially with the younger girls being exposed to boiling water). At the end of the menstrual cycle, only 200ml of boiling water (less than one cup) is required per month to sterilize the PrincessD menstrual cup for 15 minutes! In most rural areas girls fetch water from the river, boil it and then sterilize their cups.