A holistic approach to better menstrual health is an approach that includes education, addressing stigmas and taboos; an approach that guarantees every menstruator has access to menstrual hygiene products and teaches them how to better understand their menstrual health; an approach that allows them to learn about different products and solutions so that they can make more informed decisions about their own bodies and their own health.
And that’s precisely what we will be discussing at our next FemTech Untapped event “Holistic approach to better menstrual health” . We gathered some of the most inspiring founders and leaders innovating in this space, but we recognize that there are so many more out there who we couldn’t include in the event. That’s why we compiled a list that includes 20 companies whose brilliant products and services are helping millions of menstruators every month.
1. Unfabled
Unfabled is the world’s first consumer platform for menstrual wellbeing. Driven by community, their e-commerce solution allows people to discover sustainable wellness products personalised for their whole cycle.
2. Elix
Elix is the first digital platform to use modern technology to personalize Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) online, by combining time-tested knowledge, medicinal botanicals, and clinical research to empower self-healing and make access to scientifically-backed natural remedies more convenient and available than ever before. Built on the principle that menstrual cycles are a vital sign for our overall health, Elix formulates pure and potent liquid herbal extracts clinically proven to treat specific hormonal imbalances that are the root cause of painful symptoms.
3. Inertia
INERTIA is a Korean femtech startup striving to develop sustainable technologies for women's wellness. They invented CELLATEX™, 100% cellulose bio-absorbent technology via electron beam processing as the replacement of sodium polyacrylate superabsorbent polymers (SAPs), and will provide the sustainable sanitary pads with this new bio-absorbent.
4. FabLittleBag
FabLittleBag is the perfect solution for hygienic tampon and sanitary towel disposal, wherever you are; at home, with friends, at work, camping, or travelling. It takes away any angst or awkwardness and replaces it with calm, relaxed confidence. Knowing that wherever you are you, will be able to dispose of your pad, tampon, applicator, and wrapper easily, securely, and hygienically with no fuss, no stress, and no mess. FabLittleBags are made of plants (which means they are carbon-reducing) and recycled plastics, supporting the circular economy of waste.
5. Callaly
Callaly is on a mission to reinvent period care and to inspire people with periods to expect more from their products, using innovation to finally put customers’ needs first. Their patented product, the Tampliner®, is the first true redesign of the tampon in 80 years. Since their 2020 launch, they have sold almost a million period products, won numerous awards for their innovation and branding, including being named one of the Most Innovative Companies in the World by Fast company, and TIME naming the Tampliner one of Best Inventions of 2020. Callaly is a B Corp, meaning they’re committed to using business as a force for good.
6. Livia
Livia is the first scientifically proven wearable solution for period pain relief. Livia’s patented SmartWave™ technology is helping women across the globe overcome menstrual pain more effectively, quickly, and safely than with drugs alone. Using electronic micro-pulses to tap into the body’s natural pain defenses, Livia significantly reduces – and even eliminates – the sensation of menstrual pain.
7. Moody month
The Moody Month app is a daily health and wellness tracker, that connects women with solutions to support their most common moods and symptoms. With Moody Month app, you receive a forecast about what’s happening in your body each day and learn how to optimise your wellbeing with easy-to-achieve mood, food, and fitness advice. Find motivation and personalise your daily routine to give your body what it needs.
8. Vyld
Vyld is producing innovative period products from seaweed. Seaweed is one of the oldest and most sustainable plants in the world. Seaweed from marine permaculture is a sustainable and circular material. Vyld’s vision is a fair, sustainable, and circular production of necessary goods in a rewildered world.
9. Planera
Planera is the world's only certified flushable pad. When flushed, Planera pads will quickly degrade away with no waste, no microplastics.
10. Oura
Oura ring learns and visualizes your unique cycle by monitoring your temperature, which rises and falls due to the changes in your hormone levels throughout your menstrual cycle. Oura helps you understand how your body changes during the different phases of your cycle, so you're always informed.
11. Clue
Clue is a period tracking app and a trusted menstrual health resource. By combining science and technology, they are actively changing the way people learn, access, and talk about menstrual and reproductive health around the world.
12. Lunette
Lunette is the most widely distributed period cup in the world and the only one with a 100% clean track record in consumer tests. Lunette isn't just a pretty menstrual cup. It's high quality, safe, and 100% compatible with any type of body and lifestyle.
13. Dame
DAME is a sustainable personal care brand on a mission to turn the bathroom green. They launched D, the world's first reusable tampon applicator in 2017. Since then DAME has saved 130 million pieces of single-use plastic from going to waste and is certified as a B Corp, demonstrating that business can be used as a force for good.
14. Rael
Rael’s mission is to improve women’s lives through holistic feminine care – with innovative, natural, and effective solutions for all aspects of her cycle and life. From minor menstrual pains to supersized soreness, Rael heating patches instantly warm up to an ideal, therapeutic temperature to promote blood flow and help your muscles relax for maximum relief.
15. Modibodi
Modibodi was founded to help people to better manage their periods, sweat, and incontinence without the need for disposable pads, tampons, or liners. Modibodi was created so that everybody can go with a different flow. Featuring patented technology in the built-in lining which absorbs fluid and locks it away for secure leak-proof protection, Modibodi completely replaces disposable pads, tampons, and liners – better for your body, better for the planet.
16. Moonai
Moonai is an audio app that uses science-based & personalised sounds, data insights, and prediction tools for period pain management.
17. Wild.ai
WILD.AI is the app helping women who do sports train, fuel and recover, based on their menstrual cycle.
18. Awesome woman
Awesome Woman is part of the Femtec Health group, a health and beauty sciences company on a mission to revolutionize women’s healthcare. They use data, obtained from you and your body, plus AI and machine learning technology, to piece together your healthcare puzzle. They develop answers and deliver products and services that you need, on your terms.
19. Create Better Days
Create Better Days’ CBD-infused period pain relief solution uses a combination of natural ingredients - magnesium, CBD, chamomile, and fennel to support the body's natural easing response to the discomfort associated with the menstrual cycle.
20. WUKA Wear
WUKA is an award-winning Period Pants brand founded in 2017. They are on a mission to ensure sustainable lifestyles are accessible to all. Sustainability is not a luxury. Periods are not a luxury. WUKA replaced plastic-riddled disposable pads and tampons with the world’s most comfortable and sustainable period underwear, so its leak-proof layers prevent the blood from passing through the underwear, allow airflow, and prevent sweating.
Join us on May 17, to discuss these and many other topics, and meet some of the most innovative companies in the space. Book your free ticket via the button below!
Many thanks to our program partners FemTec Health and Goodwin , as well as webinar partner Elix , for supporting this event and our femtech program! ❤️ Find out more about FemTech Untapped here.
