Start Your New Year with Reusable Cloth Menstrual Pads from Pink Lemonade Shop!

We hope that you had a fabulous New Year celebration! 

Cheers to a fabulous 2016!

This year we want to start you off right and give you the opportunity to start your cloth stash or add to it! Gone are the days of scratchy, chemical filled, disposable products...we want to introduce you to your new best friend, Pink Lemonade Shop pads. 

We offer a handful of cloth pad sets so you can try out a variety of sizes and see what’s best for you and your cycle.  We’d recommend starting with a set similar to this with an 8 inch, 9 inch and 10 inch pad.  This should have you covered from light to heavy flow days and gives you a chance to see what your preference is when it comes to size.  Snatch up a wetbag of your choice and you’ll be able to store your stash on the go or at home until wash day!

Looking for an option for every day freshness or introducing your tween to cloth pads, check out our liners! Our cloth pantyliners come in 6 inch Original or Wide, 7.5 inch Regular and 7.5 inch Thong.  Our liners are great for every day freshness and even very light incontinence protection.  Our liners are available individually or in sets - in a variety of fabric options.   Snag a wetbag for carrying on the go or at home and you’ll be set! 

Have you considered cloth pads as part of your postpartum care? Yep! We have a pad for that too! So be gone with the harsh, rough and scratchy disposable pads and underwear when you’re most sensitive! Our 13 inch postpartum pads are great for overnight flow and postpartum.  Many ladies enjoy about 10 pads for their postpartum stash, starting with the 13 inch right after birth and down sizing to our 12 inch and 11 inch pads as their flow lightens up.  This is great because many woman are able to use the 11 and 12 inch pads on heavy days in their regular cycle!  Pair your stash with a wetbag of choice until washday and you’re all set!

Ready to start your cloth stash or expand your current stash? Enter the giveaway below for your chance to win a $15 Pink Lemonade Shop Gift Certificate! 

This giveaway is open to U.S. and Canada Residents. See giveaway form for full disclosures.

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How My Journey to Cloth Began {Guest Post}

I have been a member of my oldest son's birth club group since right after his birth almost sixteen years ago. Crazy, right? Over the years, it has turned into a bunch of women sitting around in a virtual Starbucks chit-chatting over cyber lattes. About eight years ago one of those conversations was about reusable menstrual options. A few of the women mentioned using menstrual cups as well as cloth pads. Cloth pads?! I had no idea that was even a thing. I ended up ordering a menstrual cup, but I wasn't interested in trying cloth pads. Nope, not for me.  Then my younger son was born almost five years ago and I started using cloth diapers. I was all about cloth so I joined groups and Facebook pages, followed blogs and people on Twitter. Cloth diapers became an obsession and with that came exposure to more people who were also using cloth for themselves.

Here they were again, cloth pads. Nope, still not interested. Nope, nope, nope. Then a funny thing happened in October of 2013. I was asked to review Pink Lemonade Shop cloth menstrual pads on my blog. I couldn't get away from these cloth pads so I took a few days to think about it. I asked fellow cloth pad users and bloggers what they thought and finally I took the plunge. I agreed to a review.

During my review period (no pun intended), I found that I was surprised at how easy caring for cloth pads was and how much they hold. Other than never being much of a pad user, my concern had always been that cloth pads wouldn't be as absorbent as disposables and I quickly found that I was wrong. But the reason why I became hooked on cloth pads didn't really have anything to do with either of those things. Sure, they're great for the environment and the bank account, but I am now a cloth pad convert and addict because they're soft and pretty. Be honest, who loves that time of the month? I know that I don't, but if there is anything that I can do to make it a little more pleasant then I will, and that something turned out to be cloth pads. Pink Lemonade Shop pads to be specific. 

Regan is the author of The Anti-June Cleaver, a personal blog about parenting, cloth diapering, and cooking with some reviews and giveaways. To read more from Regan and The Anti-June Cleaver, visit her blog at www.theantijunecleaver.com.

Pink Lemonade Shop Frequently Asked Questions!

Last night we had a ton of fun chatting with some amazing women about cloth and Pink Lemonade Shop! There were some wonderful questions asked at our cloth chat party, so we thought it would be a good idea to have them posted here for easy and quick reference! If you have any more questions, feel free to ask below or to email us direct!

Q: How many cloth pads should I have so I don't have to wash them everyday of my period?
A: We suggest having 15-20 pads to get through a cycle, however it will really depend on the length of your cycle, your flow, and how frequently you change. Some like to wait until the end of their cycle to do pad laundry while others do pad laundry every other day!

Q: Can I wash them with cloth diapers?
A: You sure can, however, pads do not need as vigorous of a wash cycle as cloth diapers do, so we do not recommend bleach soaks or ’stripping’ your diapers with your pads. 

Q: How best to keep cloth pads from sliding all around the place?
A: We have been told my many that our pads do not move around while they are being worn, however if you find that yours are, we recommend wearing a more form fitting panty to keep it snug. 

Q: How do you treat stains?
A: Good old fashioned sun! Wash your pads as normal and then lay them flat in the sun! If the sun does not remove your stain, we carry Buncha Farmer’s Stain Removal Sticks that work wonders!

Q: Are your pads regulated by the FDA?
A: We sure are! Pink Lemonade Shop is proudly FDA compliant! 

Q: Do you have to prep cloth pads before use?
A: You do not! Pink Lemonade Shop pads are prepped, prewashed, and ready for you to use upon arrival!

Q: How long do Pink Lemonade pads last?
A: Pink Lemonade Shop pads last for years! Sue has some original PLS pads that are 8+ years old and still look nearly new!

Q: How long does it take for Pink Lemonade cloth pads to pay for themselves in savings?
A: One Pink Lemonade Shop pad replaces 75-100 disposables!

& one very specific question that we thought was a good one!

Q: I'm more concerned about what you do with your pads when the cloth diaper years are done...seems like it would be too small of a load to wash by themselves, plus do you save them all up if your period is 5+ days? Don't they get gross sitting that long before wash day? Makes sense to me to use them if you cloth diaper but what about after? (Asked by Sarah C)
A: Some women save their pad laundry to wash after their cycle has finished, there is no problem with leaving them in a wet bag. We always recommend that you pre-rinse your pads prior to putting them into your soiled storage container. If you pre-rinse your pads, you can wash your pads with any other laundry such as your regular clothing, or towels