An American woman uses as many as 11,000 tampons in her lifetime. Most tampons sold by companies such as Tampax, OB, Playtex and Kotex are made of rayon or rayon-cotton blends. Rayon, a woodpulp derivative commonly bleached with chlorine, contains dioxin, an organochlorine formed during the bleaching process....

Many women have asked recently, "What is a Kegel?" When that question is answered, more questions invariably follow: "Should I be doing this?" and, "How on earth do I do a Kegel?" The answer to the "Should I be doing this?" question is a resounding "Yes", and that applies to men as well as women....

It never failed! That special time of the month would arrive and I would quickly discover that I had once again forgot to buy some pads! So off to the store I would have to go, whether a town trip was in the schedule or not or, much to my dear husbands chagrin, I would ask him to get some on his way home from work! It was during one of the those caught off guard times (and Tony had already left for work!) that I decided to just sit down and make some cloth reusable pads. It turned out to be so easy that I wondered why I hadn't done it sooner!...

Within the past year, I have made a serious shift in my life. I have changed from using disposable products, to using a more natural alternative: cloth. Most of you here would support my choice, as you have been using cloth for your baby's needs for a long time now. I, too, used cloth for diapering my babies. I even used cloth diapers for my twin sons!! My "babies" are now 12, and I haven't had to think of diapers since 1990. No, the cloth item I am so taken-with is not cloth diapers. It is cloth for my own needs: cloth menstrual pads....