Dear Customer,

I thought you might like to know a bit about the people involved in making your pads. Well, I first got into washable menstrual pads about 10 years ago when I was living in a yurt community. We had no running water or electricity at that time, and compost toilets. I saw all the other women happily hanging out their cloth pads, so I naturally got my own too. It was fantastic! I couldn't believe how comfortable and comforting they felt. I was instantly converted. My time in the yurt and my Buddhist practice as well as meeting some very wonderful people over the years have all brought me to a place where I see the amazing thing that we women are. We are the bringers of life, the nurterers and the ones who hold the fabric of our societies together. Our bodies ebb and flow with the moons, the seasons and with the demands made upon them. It is a truly extraordinary thing to be given the gift of life as a woman!

It is feelings such as these that bring Honour Your Flow cloth menstrual pads into existence. Each pad is made with love and care, as we are honouring your decision to tread lightly on the Earth and respect and love your body with beautiful, natural and organic fabrics.

The rest of the team here involves my wonderful friends who test my designs, my partner who encourages me by saying things like, "I wish I was a woman so I could wear these pads" and then pulls a sarcastic face!! My little boy stops me from sitting sewing too long by pulling me up to have a wooden sword battle, and my little girl who is my colour advisor (she's 3!) and chief parcel sticker putter-on. We are a Home Educating (un-schooling) family, and we live in a very rural place in the North of England.

With love and twinkles

Tree Shepherd

Honour Your Flow pads and tampons can also be bought at www.femininewear.co.uk  and now also at www.earthwisegirls.co.uk