The cup will land in Sweden – Helsingborgs Dagblad

Soon became even friends interested after many asked her where she bought her menstrual cup idea was born to start importing and selling over the Internet. Just over two years later, Lisa Perby now just launched the first Swedish-produced the cup.

The idea of ​​locating production in Sweden came after requests from aid organizations that wanted her firm would sponsor the menstrual cups to women in developing countries, where traditional protection is often too expensive or difficult to obtain.

– I could not give them enough good rates due to my high purchase price. When the idea of ​​creating his own production, says Lisa Perby.

In recent years, has appeared more and more nätshoppar selling menstrual cups in Sweden. Several of them told TT that their sales increased substantially.

In May took Apoteket product into their range after a great demand from customers. Sales have doubled in two months, according to preliminary figures.

The midwife Charlotte Drugge, working at women’s health care in the Halmstad, caught the eye of the cup in the autumn and think it has great advantages compared with traditional protection. Besides the environmental aspect – that you do not have to contribute to the landfill with tampons and connective waste – and the simplicity of that you can have it inside all day, she also health benefits.

– Tampons absorb both menstrual blood and moisture in mucosa and it allows one to become very dry. The cup you put on a little hat at the cervix, where menstrual blood comes out, and then sucked nothing from the tissues up. There is also less risk of infection, she says.

But some experience that it can be complicated to deploy it properly in the beginning .

The 24-year-old Catrine Forsman started using the menstrual cup about two years ago. She also sees another disadvantage.

– The man empties a small silicone container for blood may seem disgusting. And it is called menstrual cup. It’s not something you want to associate with something you drink from, she says.

But she no thought of going back to tampons, benefits considering definitely drawbacks, she says.

– It is cheaper and more environmentally friendly. It’s safer and you do not change as often, says Catrine Forsman.