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Sustainability
5 Ways to Create A More Eco-Friendly + Sustainable Thanksgiving
As the Thanksgiving feast descends upon us, we at Maxim Hygiene urge you to give thanks to Mother Earth this year and think about the long term effects of our practices around this holiday. Try and celebrate in a way that minimizes your carbon footprint and honors the...
7 DIY Halloween Costumes You Can Make from Your Recycling Bin
Boo, ladies! It's that time of year again. Time to scrounge around the house, take a quick trip to Michael's or Target, gather the duct-tape and scissors, and put that creative genius to work for some DIY Halloween Costumes that will make trick or treaters squirm! If...
9 Life Hacks, Using Period Pads and Maxim Product!
In the spirit of #healthymenstruation and being a green feminine hygiene queen, we've compiled a list of life hacks for you, using leftover period pads and Maxim Hygiene products. It's a great way to recycle unused and disliked products that have been sitting in the...
Bringing Healthy Home: Featuring Gunnar Lovelace, Fierce Man + CEO of Thrive Market
For a month that includes Father's Day, it's perfectly fitting we feature a Fierce Man, instead of the usual line up of women we designate the space to! Protecting women's health, our rights, and our access to healthy menstrual care products are all critical to the...
Repair + Repurpose: The Two Rs Missing from the Recycling Rhyme
"Reduce, Reuse, Recycle." That's the mantra we've been chanting since kindergarten, but in an age of consumerism where Forever 21 releases new clothing lines every three weeks and the average American spends over $20 on morning coffee each week, we've forgotten how to...
Loveologist, Sexologist and Fierce Woman: Wendy Strgar Talks Good Clean Love
This past Valentine's Day while we gave you four reasons to use organic and natural personal lubricants, many of us dreamed about gifts we want or how to be spoiled by a significant other. Some of us rushed to book waxes or go shopping for lingerie deals, and some...
4 Reasons to Use Organic and Natural Personal Lubricants
I'll admit it. It took a 2 minute hysterical 'verbal assault' from a 70-something, unstable due to recent divorce by by gay husband, yam-waving, Grace on the Netflix original to get it through my head - there's nothing wrong with organic and natural personal...
10 Environmental New Years Resolutions
As 2017 stretches before us, we urge you to consider your commitment to the environmental new years resolutions - to protecting ecosystems from human waste, to sharing resources with your neighbors, to living a more mindful lifestyle. Our planet has been consumed past...
#FWOTM: Erin Switalski, Rallying Women’s Voices for the Earth & for Themselves
Out of an estimated 85,000 chemicals currently in use in the environment in the United States, only about 200 have been tested for safety. Of those chemicals that have been tested, most have been evaluated only for their acute impacts to adult males in industrial...
The Perils of Plastic Applicator Tampons
For those of us who have never used an applicator-less tampon before, the idea of sticking a cotton bullet into our bloody vagina with our bare finger can seem icky, but in reality, it's a fairly clean process (once you've read the instructions), equally effective,...