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Sustainable periods. You may be wondering what sustainability has to do with periods? You might be thinking, ‘hey periods are hard enough, please do not give me an added stress’. Well do not worry I...

My experience of reusable period pads has been pretty surprising. For as long as I can remember my periods have been heavy and painful. Its not something I dwell on but I always viewed periods as...

Period poverty has gained a lot of attention over the past few years, and rightfully so. As many as 800 million people menstruate at any one point. Every single one of these people experience their...

Is my period pain normal? A question many of us have asked ourselves. Sadly, pain is part of the package for people who have periods. Pain alongside tiredness, bloating, cravings, headaches and...

Lilypads believe in equality, today we are going to dive into the gender pay gap. “In 2019, on average women were paid 83p for every £1 men were paid.”  This opening line from a House of Commons...

At Lilypads we cannot believe we are at September already! Where does the time go?! We are a team that loves reflecting and so we thought we would share some of the things we have been up to. 'Time...

The side effects of periods are not as commonly known as they should be. Period education in schools can vary dramatically and as a consequence our understandings of periods can also be lacking. The...

In our previous post we talked about the Pain Gap - the way pain is treated and understood differently between men and women. Women’s pain is often dismissed or downplayed by medical professionals,...

In recent weeks, the usual steady background noise of body-shaming and fatphobia has seen an uptick. A higher mortality of Covid-19 among people deemed obese led to a range of Government proposals,...

Lockdown hit hard and fast -our normal everyday lives suddenly looked very different. It can be incredibly  hard to cope with such extreme changes and actually it is perfectly natural to feel a...

Lockdown has been an extreme strain on mental health and wellbeing of all of us. While many of the restrictions have been lifted for now, the world remains a profoundly altered place, and we are...

I have to admit when I was younger I really didn’t care much about what company I bought my sanitary products from. I just went into my local supermarket every month and picked the brand I liked...

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is thought to affect one in ten woman. You might think therefore, that it would be a condition which was widely studied and well understood. Shockingly though, we...

It is not all doom and gloom when it comes to periods and thankfully, as a society, we are moving forward. Periods are not as demonised as they have been in the past. A film about menstruation won...

Switching to reusables can feel like a big jump, but it doesn’t need to be scary at all. We all have different bodies, and need different things from our sanitary products and that’s why we’ve...

For as long as I can remember my periods have been heavy and painful. Its not something I dwell on but I always viewed periods as something to endure or ‘get through’ even. Not exactly what you want...