How did ladies deal with periods in the 1700s?

What Did People Do before Pads and Tampons? The short answer is that most people with periods used cloth rags as a kind of DIY sanitary pad. Linen was a particularly good material for that purpose. But there's also evidence that some people used a particularly absorbent type of bog moss.



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We know, for example, that Queen Elizabeth I of England owned three black silk girdles to keep her linen sanitary towels, or vallopes of Holland cloth, held in the right place.

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Leviticus 15:19-33 In-Context 19 “Whenever a woman has her menstrual period, she will be ceremonially unclean for seven days. Anyone who touches her during that time will be unclean until evening. 20 Anything on which the woman lies or sits during the time of her period will be unclean.

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