CLEMENTINE BLOG

Stress impacts all your life, from your mental wellbeing to your physical health. Can it also affect your cycle? Know the connection between stress and periods.

Stress is a natural response of the body, much like a survival mode. However, the problem is that people are experiencing more and more stress, to increasingly more serious levels. In fact, the WHO has classified stress as a health epidemic, and burnout will effectively enter the WHO list of illnesses in 2022.

Your period is so heavy that you dread having it. We get it, and we got you. Check some tips and tricks on how to deal with heavy periods.

Some women are lucky to not only have low flow periods, but also to not have any menstrual pain or mood swings. Some others, not so much. In fact, many of us deal with very heavy periods and, painful or not, they can be a real pain to handle. But fear not! We collected some tips – by women and for women – on how to make dealing with your heavy periods easier.

First Period: it’s time for “the” talk

Having a teen or pre-teen daughter comes with one inevitability: the period talk. Let’s talk about first periods and how to prepare young women.

A daughter’s first period is a moment every mother both fears and awaits with expectation. It makes the growth of your daughter a real thing, and it is maybe the realisation that your daughter is not a baby anymore.

But how to approach this subject? How to talk to your daughter about this? We understand the difficulty mothers might feel in talking to their daughters about menstruation, but we also know that this is a talk that needs to be had.

Read on and see some tips on how to talk to your daughter, niece, or younger sister, about her first period.

Have yourself a Merry Sustainable Christmas

Christmas is just around the corner and we think this is the best time of the year to show love. But not only for people, for our planet too. Check out some tips to have a sustainable Christmas.

Everyone longs for a white Christmas, but if that is not possible, we can have at least a green one. In the very season of love, compassion, and empathy, why not have a bit more love, compassion, and empathy for our wonderful planet? A sustainable Christmas is just what we need.

Know your flow: how to figure out your period flow

Do you struggle when buying menstruation periods because you don’t really *know* which is your flow? Read on to know if you have heavy, medium, or light flow, or something in between.

First of all, we’d like to preface that there is no magical formula to “figure out” a woman’s period flow. Just like women, periods and period flows are very different. This task, of knowing your period flow, is more of a trial and error.

Toxic Shock Syndrome is a rare but serious disease that is commonly associated with tampons. There is more to this story, so read on.

You have most certainly heard about Toxic Shock Syndrome, commonly abbreviated as TSS, and its association with the use of tampons. You have quite probably heard about a famous model who lost both legs due to complications of Toxic Shock Syndrome, or even about a teenager who has recently died because of it.

This syndrome is almost always associated with the use of tampons and, albeit rare, it is frequently deadly. However, there is a little more to this story than meets the eye. Keep reading to know more about Toxic Shock Syndrome, its symptoms and its causes.

October is the Breast Cancer Awareness month. To mark the date, we put together a quick guide to do a breast self-exam at home. Check it out!

October is the Breast Cancer Awareness Month: an annual happening that aims to spread awareness of this disease that affects millions every year. We couldn’t let this occasion go unnoticed, so we put together a quick and easy guide about the breast self-exam every woman is encouraged to do regularly, in hopes of increasing early detection of breast cancer.

Some love it, some hate it… what are your thoughts on feminine wash? Check out 5 do’s and don’t’s of feminine wash and female hygiene.

Feminine wash, intimate soap or even vaginal wash are all synonyms and cause a whole lot of controversy. Some women swear by it, some avoid it like the plague. Who is right?

Well, just like people, all vaginas are different, and obviously react differently to intimate products such as feminine wash. What for some women may be a total life saver, for some others may be a life wrecker.  The only rule is to have the best interests of your vagina in mind.

Even the most natural things in life can have an impact on our planet. But how are menstrual products related to both your health and sustainability?

Having a period is absolutely natural, as old as human life itself. However, in the past decades, humans have dealt with periods in a very unsustainable way, both for the environment and for our health. At the centre of this are unsustainable period products – which, although being necessary then, can be changed for better alternatives now.

In what way are period products, health and sustainability connected, you ask? We’ll get right to it.

In today’s society going zero-waste is nearly impossible to achieve, but every little step counts! Check some tips for an almost zero-waste period.

What is zero-waste, you ask? It is, like the name very much suggests, a movement that aims to achieve no waste in daily life. Is this easy? Well, it’s not easy if you try to do it by yourself, however, if we, humans, unite and act together, we’re confident one day we can have an (almost) zero-waste society.

Vaginas have been around for literally as long as humans have, however, the history of vaginas is a long, complicated one. Get to know it.

It seems crazy that the female anatomy has caused so much commotion over the years, both in society and in the medical community. Being present in roughly half the people on Earth, it is shocking that there even is a history of the vagina. But there is one, indeed.

Is “organic” the new “avocado”, or is it an actual need? Find out the differences between convention and organic cotton, and what role it plays in your health.

You must have noticed the word “organic” is getting more and more popularity, from food to clothes. The same happens with organic cotton used in menstrual products, namely tampons. There is a reason – a very important one, in fact – for this. Find out why.