This is not a sponsored post and I am not being paid to discuss any of the products mentioned below. This is simply an individual's perspective on a particular brand and product. All views and opinions are mine and mine alone.
Advance warning: This post is about women's sanitary objects, specifically pads.
Let's be honest and up front, as a woman, we all use them, we all need them, and yet it is certainly not a task we enjoy having to put up with every month. But given that we ultimately do have to use them for a little less than a week every month (and because you are not the type that likes to incur huge and costly damage to the clothing and fabric furniture around you, not to mention gross out everyone) it is kind of important to find a sanitary item that not only meets your err "flow" needs but most importantly, your needs for comfort.
Comfort is a huge factor for me in sanitary pad selection.
Now first of all, why do I use sanitary pads? Because sleeping with a tampon scares me in a "I'm concerned about possibly making myself sick due to toxic shock" kind of way. Also I find that tampons can also at times exacerbate cramping for me. So while I do utilize tampons enough, during particularly unpleasant flows, I genuinely prefer pads because counter-intuitively, it's more comfortable.
Problem is, pads can be bulky, can end up being fairly damp, even sticky and even the shape of it can turn the experience of wearing one extremely uncomfortable. And the thicker they are, the more they feel as if you're wearing a diaper, and the more they tend to poke and prod into your skin and aggravate it.
And U by Kotex's pads have every single one of these problems.
I'm sure you've seen some of those stupid commercials by this company for its pad line how it's a more hip product, but seriously, it's so bad.
The top layer seems to be made of some kind of plastic that makes it very sticky and wet while wearing it even when it is dry. As if that isn't enough, the pad is unbelievably bulky as well, with very odd lumps in different parts of the pad that I'm sure was designed but does nothing for me at all, in fact it makes it even more uncomfortable.
Also, I'm petite, a size that most pads are not made for and as a result, I also genuinely need pads with wings in order to minimize damage to my clothes. The version I bought had wings, but it was designed so wide that the wings almost didn't do anything to keep the pad in place. And this was the extra thin brand.
Ergo, big mess.
It's actually like wearing a diaper. A really really bad and unsuccessful diaper.
I've used Stayfree for years and while they sit on the bulky side, they don't come with the sticky and wet problem for the most part.
And last year I tried and fell in love with Always Infinity's line that had seemed to solve every issue I have had with pads for years. Not only is it soft and dry feeling, it is also extremely thin and small, sized for a petite body with wings. It's to the point that it doesn't even feel as if I'm wearing a pad!
Always Infinity has since become my go-to pad brand.
But if I had a pad I knew I liked, why try U by Kotex pads? Well first they make great tampons (although it seems my sister has developed an allergy to the grip part of the applicator, so that's something to keep an eye out for) but they're easy to use and far more comfortably than anything else I've used. And second, I had a coupon for U by Kotex. So why not try it?
Well... that was a bit of a waste of money it turned out. I mean, I will probably do my best to work through the pads I'm now stuck with. Maybe I'll save it specifically for when I sleep or don't leave the house. But seriously, not worth the purchase. And something I won't ever spend money on again.
At least, not in its current incarnation of utter suckage.
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