WHY DID KOTEX EXIST?
Hey ladies, do you know that this famous brand of sanitary napkin actually has a function that is much different from what you know?
The Kotex is one of those wartime inventions that was first marketed in the 1920s, but the product itself has been around since the 1870s.
The company, named Kimberly-Clark, was an American paper company that produced bandages from "Cellucotton" material for World War I.
After the war ended in 1919, executives looked for ways to use Cellucotton until they finally got the idea of making it a bandage from the American Fund for the French Wounded.
Kimberly Clark named her product Kotex, and there is a reason behind the choice of this name. The Kotex brand came from observations of the company's employees who found that the product had a cotton-like texture. To make it easier to mention, instead of writing Cot-tex, it was Kotex that Kimberly Clark finally chose.
The institute apparently got a letter from the Army nurses claiming that they used the surgical dressings as sanitary napkins.
What's more, the Cellucotton material is five times more absorbent than cotton bandages and is inexpensive.
After various rejections and socialization, Kimberly-Clark agreed to manufacture the first Kotex sanitary napkins and products for sale in October 1919 in Chicago!
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