It was six months ago that Selin Celikoyar bought her last tampon and switched to a reusable menstrual disc. “I had already been wary of tampons from an environmental perspective and also from a ...

Tampons have come a long way since their earliest uses. In the 5th century B.C., Greeks made them from lint wrapped around small pieces of wood, as noted by Hippocrates, "the father of medicine". The ...