If You Have A Period, Here Are The Best Period Pants And Swimwear

It's out with the old.

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It’s no secret sex education in schools was completely inadequate. While we have to give the UK government props for making efforts to change that in recent years, anyone over the age of 25 will know that the information we were taught about our bodies – especially for those with vulvas – barely scratched the surface of everything you need to know when entering adult life.

Inevitably, this meant we were taught the bare necessities when it came to periods – that is, the science behind the menstrual cycle and that the only options for controlling your flow are pads and tampons.

Obviously, period education is still not good enough, because one in seven (14%) girls in the UK didn’t know what to do when they start their periods, and over a quarter (26%) still don’t to this day.

The narrative dictating that periods should be private, and any material that comes into contact with your menstrual blood needs to be disposed of as if it’s toxic waste is incredibly harmful and entrenches shame in us from a young age.

It also goes without saying that presenting pads and tampons as the only option for period care is extremely costly, so much so that 11% of women in the UK struggled to afford period products in 2025, and 36% wear pads and tampons for longer than they should.

Well, we have news for you: the world has moved on from disposable period wear. Not only do we now have a much more comprehensive understanding of the plethora of ways people experience periods, but with that has come a whole new range of products that don’t involve having to run to Boots once a month.

Enter: period pants. Or, pants and swimwear created from super absorbent fabric.

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