India, Sept. 11 -- Most women cannot name a single ingredient in the pad they used this month. That is not their fault. Period products in India aren't required to disclose ingredients. Not one. Unlike the food you eat or the moisturizer you apply, the product sitting against your skin for hours a day, every month, for thirty years has no required label.

Here is what the research shows. Most conventional sanitary pads contain up to 90% plastic. Synthetic fibers. Chemical coatings. Added fragrances. All of it is in contact with some of the most absorbent tissue on the body. "The rashes, the irritation, the recurring infections that millions of women have accepted as just part of having periods. For many, these are reactions to materials, ...