Makeshift feminine hygiene
Since sanitary pads are a more modern invention, women in the colonial era had to get creative when it came to making their own pads and tampons. They had to use materials that were readily available to them.
Some of these makeshift methods included folding a cloth to absorb the blood. Or they relied upon more extreme measures, such as gathering moss from the forest floor to use an artificial sanitary pad. Except… methods such as these were everything but sanitary, resulting in bacteria growth and nasty infections.
