What ever happened to good old tampax? (Tampax Tampons in general)

Name: Susan MacNeill

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Product:	Tampax Tampons in general
Date:	20.04.08 (20 review reads)
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Advantages: Used to be great, easy to use etc.

Disadvantages: Hard to use, not enough aborbency.

I have been using tampax tampons, cardboard applicator, for 36 years now. Of course I have been totally happy, until they had to "improve" them. I will start with the paper wrapper. It is now bright yellow, almost orange. Great, if I lose it!!! The wrapper no long has the tear thread, so I rarely get it open in one try. Next, the cardboard applicator is now so hard to slide to insert, that I must slide it back and forth a couple of times, before trying to insert it. The new pinched in design does not help at all. Now about the tampon itself. It is so short, it has about an hours worth of absorbency, on heavy days. The skirt is a bit of help, I guess. But you get a lot more out of a longer tampon. I realize that I only will have a few years left of worrying about this stuff, but darn, it's frustrating! I will be searching for new brand next month. I've tried 3 of the giant sized Costco boxes of the new and improved Tampax, and now I'm done. I've tried to find the old Tampax, but to no avail. I would not recommend the new Tampax.

Summary: They ruined a good thing.