Tim DraperFounder and Managing Partne, Draper Associate · I back the ideas that look crazy first

Say goodbye to the plastics and chemicals causing health issues in your menstrual products! 💥

9 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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A woman switched from traditional cloth pads to commercial ones and developed severe infections. She discovered the pads contained plastic and chemicals, so she created a modern alternative using cotton instead of synthetics.

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The first pad, the sanitary pad that I've used, is a cloth. It's a traditional cloth, an Indian version of it, which my grandmom handed to me. But then as life happened, all of us started using commercial sanitary pads that were advertised. I faced very heavy infections, and when I went deep, I realized that these pads have a lot of plastic and chemicals, because of which they are causing these issues. That was the moment when I realized that, okay, we need to solve this problem. And maybe do it with some kind of innovation, bringing the good old traditional cotton formats back, but in a modern avatar.