Tampax (a portmanteau of tampon and packs) is a brand of tampons currently owned by Procter & Gamble . It was based in White Plains, New York , US until its sale to Procter & Gamble in 1997. It is a subsidiary of P&G's Always brand and is sold in over 100 countries.
6-420: The product was designed by Earle Haas , who filed a patent in the 1930s. The original product was designed from the start as flushable and biodegradable . In 1937, Tampax worked with McCann Erickson for its marketing campaigns. In 1949, the brand appeared in more than 50 stores. From 1930s to 1940s Tampax chose sportswomen as their brand ambassadors. During World War II , Tampax produced wound dressings for
12-468: A Denver businesswoman, Gertrude Tendrich, for $ 32,000. She started the Tampax company and was its first president. Tendrich was an ambitious German immigrant who made the first Tampax tampons at her home using a sewing machine and Haas's compression machine. Tampons based on Haas' design were first sold in the U.S. in 1936. The London Sunday Times newspaper in 1969 named Haas one of the "1000 Makers of
18-477: A flexible ring for a contraceptive diaphragm (and made $ 50,000 from selling the patent), sold real estate and was president of a company that manufactured antiseptics . Haas wanted to invent something better than the "rags" his wife and other women had to wear, he said, and got the idea for his tampon from a friend in California who used a sponge in the vagina to absorb menstrual flow . So he developed
24-482: A plug of cotton inserted by means of two cardboard tubes; he did not want the woman to have to touch the cotton. He applied for a patent for the "Catamenal device" on November 19, 1931, and was granted U.S. Patent No. 1,926,900 on September 12, 1933. After failing to get people interested in his invention (including the Johnson & Johnson company), on October 16, 1933, he finally sold the patent and trademark to
30-603: Is available in over 100 countries; there is no distribution in Germany and Austria. Earle Haas Earle Haas , D.O. (1888–1981) was an osteopathic physician and inventor of the tampon with an applicator, marketed as "Tampax". He graduated from the Kansas City College of Osteopathy in 1918 and spent 10 years in Colorado as a country general practitioner , then went to Denver in 1928. He invented
36-548: The military. Tampax conducted medical studies in 1945 to prove the safety of tampons. In 1984, the company was renamed Tambrands Inc. Marketing for the product includes the company's BeingGirl website. Tampax was an independent company based in Palmer, Massachusetts and headquartered in New York City for over 50 years. Renamed Tambrands, Inc. in 1984, the company was purchased by Procter & Gamble in 1997. Tampax
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