SHE’S EVE is about consciousness of your body, the environment and dignity. We say NO to SINGLE USE PLASTIC PADS and lets end PERIOD POVERTY, TOGETHER.
Biodegradable Disposable Pads
She’s Eve, Tatenda Pads are 100% Organic Cotton and No Plastic, not even the wrapping is plastic and will dissolve in water, the pads within 10 weeks will decompose. Tatenda means thank you in Shona, She’s Eve thanks you for helping the planet.
Washable Pads
She’s Eve is about changing period wear from a grudge purchase into an altruistic indulgence. We work with couture fashion brands transforming their off cuts into luxury, reusable sanitary wear and handcrafted, eco-conscious pouches. She’s Eve embodies female empowerment by providing an elegant and ethical product.
She’s Eve cotton fabric comes from Up-Cycling programs: An initiative, a circular project, designed to up-cycle textile offcuts created during manufacturing to make fashionable and functional sanitary pads therefore replacing plastic based sanitary products and in return supporting Period Poverty projects.
She’s Eve uses 100% cotton fabric, charcoal bamboo absorbent liner in fuchsia with 20% polyester, buttons in palladium, lead and nickel free. Charcoal bamboo has anti-allergic, anti-bacterial, anti-odour, non staining and quick-drying properties and is certified for non-toxins. Hand made in Italy.
Why Switch?
She’s Eve is Conscious-couture
She’s Eve outer fabric is sourced from the cutting rooms of prestige, high-end fashion brands. The design and care in the styling and stitching of each pad is what makes it couture quality period wear.
She’s Eve is Safe
She’s Eve says no to toxins, no to dioxins, no to carcinogens and yes to you taking control of what goes next to your skin! Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is a rare but life-threatening condition caused by bacteria getting into the body and releasing harmful toxins which is often associated with tampon use in women.
She’s Eve is Eco-conscious
She’s Eve inner fabrics are sourced to prevent ending up into landfills. Renewable materials such as Charcoal Bamboo are used for the ultimate comfort and absorption. Using reusable pads reduces the overall impact on the environment of sanitary products.
She’s Eve is Empowering
She’s Eve, together with Padding Africa provide reusable pads for young girls to attend school and empower women to help themselves and become self-sufficient by making pads for their communities.
She’s Eve is Indulgent
Although functional, a She’s Eve purchase is also incredibly indulgent consisting of a beautifully crafted, curated pamper pack, while at the same time helping others and the environment.
Eco-Matters
Plastic Waste
It takes 500 to 800 years for one pad to decompose.. Plastic pervades modern life, and menstruation is no exception. Since the middle of the 20th century, many tampons and menstrual pads have contained somewhere between a little and a lot of plastic in their basic design—sometimes for reasons that “improve” the design, but often for reasons less crucial.
In 2018 alone, people in the U.S. bought 5.8 billion tampons, and over the course of a lifetime, a single menstruator will use somewhere between 5 and 15 thousand pads and tampons, the vast majority of which will wind up in landfills as plastic waste.
We believe that breaking down the stigma around menstruation is key to moving toward a more socially and environmentally thoughtful future.
Fashion Waste
Fashion waste can be made up of cutting waste, unusable stock due to last-minute design changes, spoilage in transport, or excess stock that is not sold on the retail market. 35% of all materials used for clothing ends up as waste before the garment even reaches the consumer. In fact, one garbage truck of textiles is dumped to landfills or burned each second and can take decades to degrade whilst emitting harmful greenhouse gasses.
We are proud to work alongside the world’s most prestigious fashion brands transforming their waste material and off cuts into premium reusable pads and luxury hand stitched pouches for women. Our circular upcycling system helps to protect the planet and the environment, as well as empowering women faced with period poverty in Africa.
Period Poverty
It is our promise to gift one pad, for every She’s Eve pad that is purchased. It is also our mission to empower women who face extreme poverty to become self-sufficient and entrepreneurial by teaching them how to make the pads themselves and enabling them to turn their acquired skill into a business.
Period poverty is the lack of access to sanitary products, menstrual hygiene education, toilets, hand washing facilities, and, or, waste management and affects millions of girls and women worldwide.
More than 800 million people menstruate daily, worldwide and millions of girls and women are affected by period poverty not only in developing countries but also in developed countries and millions of girls and women cannot attend school or work due to lack of menstrual products or clean sanitary facilities.. No young girl should miss school because of her period! www.paddingafrcia.com
