Friday 30 August 2013
Tuesday 9 July 2013
Exciting Announcement!
For easier shopping and checkout, we have been secretly working on new version of the site, (temporarily hosted at our domain name www.smartfemininehygiene.com )
The new version was set to be launched in a few weeks, but due to some technical issues with the old version, we had to launch earlier then expected...
So new grand opening, eh?!!
New prices on all MeLuna Menstrual cups! Due to fluctuations in the EUR, our previous price of 19.85 has been great, but the Canadian dollar is strong, so we have lowered all MeLuna cups to 18.88 to reflect the current trend in Euros.
If you are having any difficulties with the new site or want to know your order status/updates (and ordered from the old version) please use the contact page on the new site to get in contact with us or reply to your email status update.
The new version is now located at http://www.meluna.ca just like the old version, but if you have been to the site before, your browser may redirect you to SmartFeminineHygiene, but it is exactly the same site, and orders come through to meluna.ca either way.
The new version was set to be launched in a few weeks, but due to some technical issues with the old version, we had to launch earlier then expected...
So new grand opening, eh?!!
New prices on all MeLuna Menstrual cups! Due to fluctuations in the EUR, our previous price of 19.85 has been great, but the Canadian dollar is strong, so we have lowered all MeLuna cups to 18.88 to reflect the current trend in Euros.
If you are having any difficulties with the new site or want to know your order status/updates (and ordered from the old version) please use the contact page on the new site to get in contact with us or reply to your email status update.
The new version is now located at http://www.meluna.ca just like the old version, but if you have been to the site before, your browser may redirect you to SmartFeminineHygiene, but it is exactly the same site, and orders come through to meluna.ca either way.
Sunday 30 June 2013
Three words... Happy Canada Day!
Three words... Happy Canada Day!
Use the coupon code HAPPYCANADADAY from July 1st-4th to get 7.50 off your purchase of
$27 or more. Yep, that means if you add a Collapsible Sterilization Cup or Mini Milton Tablets and enter that code HAPPYCANADADAY, they will be free! That's it. Simple!
Use the coupon code HAPPYCANADADAY from July 1st-4th to get 7.50 off your purchase of
$27 or more. Yep, that means if you add a Collapsible Sterilization Cup or Mini Milton Tablets and enter that code HAPPYCANADADAY, they will be free! That's it. Simple!
Wednesday 29 May 2013
Transforming the lives of girls in third world countries... With underwear and washable pads.
I recently came across someone by chance on Kijiji who was looking for fabric donations to sew cloth pads for Days for Girls. I was intrigued, and started reading about the situation in other countries.
A little background from me - I have been in Haiti, Uganda & Kenya, and I know that it's not easy to have a period without running water. I remember disposable pads in Uganda were cheap compared to Canada, (a small pack was around $1.50) but when men often make as little as $1-$3 per day, you know women and girls are not going to have that kind of money... We didn't have a lot of money to live on while we were in Africa, and I remember putting off buying pads as long as I could. I had left my menstrual cup at home because it was not safe/hard to manage when all the water has to be boiled etc. One of the most embarrassing moments of my life was having to burn my disposables in the open, because there was nowhere to dispose of them. There are no landfills. They melted into a big glob and refused to burn...
A women I know in Uganda, ask if I had heard about reusable pads, because she had heard about someone who knew about them. I had not heard of them back then, so I couldn't share any info. She said she had heard of using a certain kind of moss. I really had only used a Menstrual cup for about a year previously and didn't know anything about anything else. I wish I could have told her about cloth pads!
So, even after having been there, I never imagined the situation was so bad. I didn't realize that MOST girls cannot afford sanitary products, so they end up staying at home for their entire period instead of going to school. Even more unimaginable is that most of them do not even own a pair of underwear. Some girls find a way to use newspaper or dish cloths. Some are sexually exploited in exchange for sanitary products... So, it turns out that one of the biggest problems in the third world, holding back girls from completing school, and keeping mothers at home for a week every month instead of being able to work, can be solved with washable pads and underwear.
Transformation Textiles is a clothing manufacturer with the most genius solution to helping these girls. I will not spoil their story, so be sure to check it out on their website because it's just so smart.
Get involved, and save the world by making the lives of other women and girls better.
-MC
P.S. With all the money we save using Menstrual cups, we could keep a little jar for the girls of the world, eh? ;)
A little background from me - I have been in Haiti, Uganda & Kenya, and I know that it's not easy to have a period without running water. I remember disposable pads in Uganda were cheap compared to Canada, (a small pack was around $1.50) but when men often make as little as $1-$3 per day, you know women and girls are not going to have that kind of money... We didn't have a lot of money to live on while we were in Africa, and I remember putting off buying pads as long as I could. I had left my menstrual cup at home because it was not safe/hard to manage when all the water has to be boiled etc. One of the most embarrassing moments of my life was having to burn my disposables in the open, because there was nowhere to dispose of them. There are no landfills. They melted into a big glob and refused to burn...
A women I know in Uganda, ask if I had heard about reusable pads, because she had heard about someone who knew about them. I had not heard of them back then, so I couldn't share any info. She said she had heard of using a certain kind of moss. I really had only used a Menstrual cup for about a year previously and didn't know anything about anything else. I wish I could have told her about cloth pads!
So, even after having been there, I never imagined the situation was so bad. I didn't realize that MOST girls cannot afford sanitary products, so they end up staying at home for their entire period instead of going to school. Even more unimaginable is that most of them do not even own a pair of underwear. Some girls find a way to use newspaper or dish cloths. Some are sexually exploited in exchange for sanitary products... So, it turns out that one of the biggest problems in the third world, holding back girls from completing school, and keeping mothers at home for a week every month instead of being able to work, can be solved with washable pads and underwear.
Transformation Textiles is a clothing manufacturer with the most genius solution to helping these girls. I will not spoil their story, so be sure to check it out on their website because it's just so smart.
Get involved, and save the world by making the lives of other women and girls better.
-MC
P.S. With all the money we save using Menstrual cups, we could keep a little jar for the girls of the world, eh? ;)
Sunday 21 April 2013
Wednesday 20 March 2013
MeLuna Mini is back!
So, for a while the old style MeLuna seemed to be fading out, and colors were getting sparse... but new ones have officially been produced, and now you can choose between Clear, Purple and Red in the Classic and Pink or Cyan in the Soft. All colors are available in Ring, Ball and Stem, and if you need it in Basic (with no stem) you can request that the stem be carefully removed for you. How does that sound to you? :)
Thursday 20 December 2012
MeLuna Give Away! Hurry!
So Ladies, I am a little late posting this, but it's not to late to get in on the give away! Homestead Emporium is hosting a give away on their blog, for which we will be giving away 2 starter packs. So, go check it out and like us on facebook!
Homestead Emporium Blog - MeLuna Give Away!
Homestead Emporium Blog - MeLuna Give Away!
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