Here's the newest product men will be oddly embarrassed to buy: A new spiral-shaped TAMPON just got approved by the FDA.
The brand is called Sequel. Two students at Stanford named Greta Meyer and Amanda Calabrese came up with it as a class project.
Their website claims it's the first real upgrade tampons have had in 90 years . . . not to the applicator, but the tampon itself. The cotton part.
With normal tampons, that cotton has vertical grooves around it that run lengthwise. Instead, these grooves spiral around it.
They say that's important, because it makes them absorb more evenly. And they're less likely to leak.
They've got 11 patents in the U.S., so other brands can't use the design. They say their Sequel Spiral Tampons should be available to most people by early next year.
(Business Wire / NY Post)
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