Who invented the sanitary napkin and in what year?
It was invented by your and mine grand grand grand mothers. they used cloth and then cotton when they had menustration. This gave the idea for manufacturing sanitary napkins in due course to comfort the women. But Wikipedia source reads – Menstrual pads have been mentioned as early as in the (10th century) Suda, where Hypatia was said to have thrown her “feminine rags” at an admirer in an attempt to turn him off. Through the ages women have used different forms of menstrual protection. The Museum of menstruation has articles and photos of some early forms of menstrual protection. Including among other things, knitted pads, and menstrual aprons. Women often used strips of folded old cloth (rags) to catch their menstrual blood, which is why the term “rags” was used to refer to menstruation. Disposable menstrual pads appear to have been first commercially available from around 1895 through Curads and Hartmann’s. Disposable pads had their start with nurses using their wood pulp bandages to
