If you’re menstruating, you already know how expensive tampons and tampons can be – not to mention Advil for your cramps and skin care for those dull scratches. This fall, the price is about to get even higher. Thanks COVID.
The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the global supply chain and increased demand for many care products, including toilet paper and diapers, while others, including razors (which look at you with a raised beard), have declined. Female care sales fell in European markets last year, according to him P&G report third quarter, but were partially offset by the “growth of premium innovation in North America”.
So why do Americans pay the price? Well, the company said it hopes to offset the rising costs of raw materials – especially industrial chemicals and resins in these products – by raising prices for baby care products, women’s care and adult incontinence, which are affected in disproportionately.
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Women’s care products include menstrual hygiene products, which are used by people of all kinds, but the higher cost of care products sold to women (compared to those sold to men) has been called the “pink tax”.
One in 10 students and one in five first-generation students experience poverty each month in the United States, according to a recent study. Even for those who have access to sanitary products, menstrual hygiene education, toilets, hand washing facilities and waste management, the costs can be summed up. Scotland became the first country in the world to produce free vintage products last year, but so far, the United States has not followed suit. But new companies and advertising campaigns is aware.
Regarding P&G products, the company said in an e-mail statement that, “as the opportunities allow, we will close some price increases with new product innovations – adding value for consumers.”
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