Sanitary Napkins and the Environmental Impact Part -4: Compostable alternatives for sanitary napkin raw materials How to dispose a sanitary napkin? Have you heard of organic/ biodegradable/ compostable sanitary pads? Can sanitary napkins be 100% compostable? Can disposable products be recycled? What should be government’s policy around disposal of sanitary napkin waste? This blog is a part of a series …
Sanitary Napkins and the Environmental impact Part -3: Compostable Materials and their challenges How to dispose a sanitary napkin? Have you heard of organic/ biodegradable/ compostable sanitary pads? Can sanitary napkins be 100% compostable? Can disposable products be recycled? What should be government’s policy around disposal of sanitary napkin waste? This blog is a part of a series of 5 …
Sanitary Napkins and the Environmental impact Part -1: Disposal of sanitary napkins How to dispose a sanitary napkin? Have you heard of organic/ biodegradable/ compostable sanitary pads? Can sanitary napkins be 100% compostable? Can disposable products be recycled? What should be government’s policy around disposal of sanitary napkin waste? This blog is a part of a series of 5 articles …
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Success story: Local production for women, by women Desai Foundation has partnered with Saral Designs for increasing access to high quality and affordable sanitary napkins using Swachh machines. As Desai Foundation is increasing its impact with more production units, we had a chat with Megha Desai, to understand more about their work and their approach which makes them …
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How to start your own sanitary napkin business? We are very close to inflection point as a society when it comes to menstruation. While there are millions of women in many developing countries who still do not have access to pads, there are a growing number of organizations focusing on increasing awareness around menstrual hygiene management and …
1 year later: Impact of GST exemption on Sanitary Napkins Goods and Services Tax (GST) – launched at midnight on 1st July 2017, has been the talk of the nation ever since for various reasons. Though menstruation is still widely considered a social stigma, GST managed to gain a lot of attention for imposing a …
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Talking Periods and Celebrating World Menstrual Hygiene Day 2019 Every year on the 28th day of May, Menstrual Hygiene Day (MH Day) is celebrated all over the world. Well, thats because a menstrual cycle is of 28 days and periods lasts for up to 5 days a month on an average. Menstrual Hygiene is not …
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Indian Women Blog.org ‘Pad Woman’ Suhani Mohan On How To Sustain The Pad Man-Generated Interest Around Periods. She is the founder of Saral Designs, a Mumbai-based startup that is working on increasing the access to high-quality affordable sanitary napkins using a smart distributed manufacturing technology. Read More Share This Story ,Choose Your Platform! Facebook Twitter …
Looking back at the first 1000 days of Saral Designs When we started Saral Designs three years ago, my Dad told me an old famous saying from the steel manufacturing industry: “Don’t think about breakeven or making money for the first 1000 days of starting your business, but you need to survive long enough to …
What goes behind starting large scale impact projects in South Asia At Saral Designs, we follow 4As approach (Affordability, Accessibility, Awareness and Advocacy) which allows us to not only provide accessibility of affordable sanitary napkins, but also allows us to advocate change that we bring at local level in tier-2,3 towns and/or low income communities …
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