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Kotex Advertisement

  • "This is ending women's greatest hygienic mistake"

  • 1926-Nov-01

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Advertisement for Kotex sanitary pads that boasts that they are disposable and absorb 16 times their own weight in moisture.

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  • 22.8 cm W x 31.75 cm H
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Kotex. “Kotex Advertisement,” November 1, 1926. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/1xs0m8v.

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