How to Use Your Menstrual Cycle to Your Advantage
How to Use Your Menstrual Cycle to Your Advantage
As period-havers, we move through our menstrual cycles with ups and downs of energy and productivity as our bodies adjust to continual hormonal shifts throughout our cycles. Here’s how to navigate... Read more...
Knowing Your Ride: How Your Cycle Affects Your Mood
Knowing Your Ride: How Your Cycle Affects Your Mood
Knowing the impact of the rise and fall of your hormones on your mood throughout your cycle can allow you to create healthy routines, boundaries and practices to contribute to a... Read more...
Suzanne Siemens and Madeleine Shaw
Madeleine and Suzanne's Transition: Coming Full Circle
As with all of nature’s cycles, change is inevitable. Today we are honouring a once-in-a-lifetime transition in the Lunapads/Aisle story: our groundbreaking co-founders Madeleine Shaw and Suzanne Siemens are moving... Read more...
Irregular Periods: The Why (and if) Behind Your Period Being Late
Irregular Periods: The Why (and if) Behind Your Period Being Late
The ritualistic aspect of having a regular period has provided a lot of information and guidance to me over the years. Knowing that my period is going to come around... Read more...
Aisle Partners with Food Banks Canada to Supply Reusable Menstrual Products
Aisle Partners with Food Banks Canada to Supply Reusable Menstrual Products
We’re thrilled to see the Government of Canada taking meaningful steps to providing marginalized people in Canada with a choice of sustainable disposable as well as reusable pads and period... Read more...
A person with menstrual blood dripping down their leg, and a wine glass in one hand
Alcohol and its effects on the Menstrual Cycle
An increasing number of people are doing Dry January or other dry months during the year, as a way to check in with their relationship with alcohol and to explore... Read more...
Rooted in Legacy: Aisle’s Next Chapter
Rooted in Legacy: Aisle’s Next Chapter
We have some very big news to share! Aisle (formerly Lunapads) has been acquired by Lux Perry, the visionary young CEO behind the period pain relief startup Somedays. We hope that... Read more...
More Good News in Canadian Menstrual Equity!
More Good News in Canadian Menstrual Equity!
The Canadian government has made recent strides toward ending period poverty. Food Banks Canada will be administering a national pilot to provide free menstrual products as part of a $25 million Menstrual... Read more...
Period Poverty: A Day in the Life of a Student
Period Poverty: A Day in the Life of a Student
What does period poverty actually look like? In order to describe it, we thought about all of the stories that have been shared with our team over the past decades,... Read more...
From Lowering Prostaglandins to PMS Remedies - 5 Tips To Heal Your Cycle Naturally
From Lowering Prostaglandins to PMS Remedies - 5 Tips To Heal Your Cycle Naturally
One of my favourite things to tell anyone who is just beginning their menstrual cycle healing journey is that your period doesn’t have to be the worst time of the month. I... Read more...
Free Birth Control? Wonderful. Now, How About Menstrual Products?
Free Birth Control? Wonderful. Now, How About Menstrual Products?
Access to free birth control allows for greater control and choice over family planning decisions, as a matter of human rights. Given the non-negotiable role that menstrual management also plays... Read more...
THE 411 ON CYCLE SYNCING (FROM A CYCLE SYNCING ENTHUSIAST)
THE 411 ON CYCLE SYNCING (FROM A CYCLE SYNCING ENTHUSIAST)
I started cycle syncing after years of struggling with endometriosis and PMDD. Week after week, month and after month I found myself struggling with severe symptoms such as pain, anxiety,... Read more...
Plastic Pollution and Disposable Period Products: Where Does Period Waste Go?
Plastic Pollution and Disposable Period Products: Where Does Period Waste Go?
Plastics have infiltrated every aspect of our lives, from everyday items like takeout containers to shampoo/soap bottles to regularly used essentials like period products. As responsible inhabitants of this planet,... Read more...
Go, Canada! Federally-regulated employers now mandated to provide workplace menstrual products
Go, Canada! Federally-regulated employers now mandated to provide workplace menstrual products
New changes to the Canadian Labour Code mandate that federally-regulated workplaces must provide menstrual products to their workers. To support employers as they navigate these new regulations, Aisle has published a... Read more...
Boxers Under the Tree: An Initiative to Support and Affirm Trans Youth in Need
Boxers Under the Tree: An Initiative to Support and Affirm Trans Youth in Need
In February, we shipped 200 pairs of our period boxers directly to people who needed them across North America and Europe, helping transgender and gender-nonconforming people who might not have access to... Read more...
YOU’RE NOT OVERREACTING - IT COULD BE PMDD
YOU’RE NOT OVERREACTING - IT COULD BE PMDD
Learning to live with PMDD has been one of the most difficult but also one of the most empowering experiences of my life. I have found by taking a multi-pronged... Read more...
The PERIOD. Chapter at the University of Central Florida making reusable pads to donate in collaboration with Days for Girls!
Earth Month 2023: What is Sustainable Menstrual Equity?
Most approaches to period poverty understandably focus on short-term, urgent needs, for example students in schools, or employees in workplaces. But the bigger-picture solution is not just having more pads and tampons... Read more...
Menarche in the USA: Florida Is in a State Over Periods
Menarche in the USA: Florida Is in a State Over Periods
Earlier this month, legislation was introduced in the Florida House that would, "not only prohibit instruction about menstruation to students not yet in sixth grade, but forbid any discussion whatsoever... Read more...
The Future of Period Equity
The Future of Period Equity
In the past couple of years, our vision of Universal access to safe, quality, sustainable, shame-free period care and education for everyone who menstruates has been gaining ground, with free disposable pads... Read more...
Aisle’s Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret Legacy
Aisle’s Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret Legacy
Like many of us, I am eagerly anticipating the film version of Judy Blume’s classic novel Are you there, God? It's me, Margaret. My deep affinity with Margaret inspired my subsequent feminist consciousness and... Read more...
Reflections on 30 Years of Menstrual Health and Equity Leadership
Reflections on 30 Years of Menstrual Health and Equity Leadership
One of the things that I am often asked is how things have changed in the reusable menstrual product space over 30 years, and my answer is that it’s a... Read more...
An illustration of a pair of Boxer Brief period underwear & a reusable cloth menstrual pad inside a blue circle. There is a Giving Tuesday hashtag over the image and logos for Aisle and Period Purse below the image
Menstrual Equity with the Period Purse
Menstrual equity is the idea that access to free, quality menstrual products, education and a shame-free attitude about periods are essential for full and dignified participation in life for everyone... Read more...
We Should All Be More Like Yvon
We Should All Be More Like Yvon
Yvon Chouinard’s recent decision to essentially gift his $3 Billion company’s shares to fight climate change is a seismic move that flies in the face of traditional capitalist business values.... Read more...
Decolonization and Reconcili-action in 2022
Decolonization and Reconcili-action in 2022
As we approach Canada’s second national Truth and Reconciliation Day (aka Orange Shirt Day) on September 30th, this post is about sharing various ways that we support ‘Reconcili-action’, (ie: actually walking the... Read more...
internationally recognised health and safety standards
Why Quality Matters in Choosing Reusable Menstrual Products
The growth of the reusable menstrual care industry is seeing a classic business trend common in the apparel industry: new entrants making low-quality goods, looking to jump on the bandwagon... Read more...
Free Reusables: The Next Step Towards Menstrual Equity
Free Reusables: The Next Step Towards Menstrual Equity
Menstrual products are essential personal hygiene supplies, alongside toilet paper, hand soap and paper towels. Provision of these essential supplies are unquestionably the re sponsibility of the institutions where the bathrooms... Read more...
PFAS and Period Underwear: Why Testing and Transparency Matter
PFAS and Period Underwear: Why Testing and Transparency Matter
At Aisle, our dedication to quality, sustainability and product safety border on being obsessive. In fact, the company was originally founded to create products that were free of allergens, bleaches... Read more...
The Planet-Positive Periods Toolkit is Here!
The Planet-Positive Periods Toolkit is Here!
Planet-Positive Periods is the outcome of a new and powerful creative partnership between Aisle, Green Periods and PERIOD. We are thrilled with this new suite of up-to-the-minute research and resources about... Read more...
Boxers Under The Tree - An Initiative in support of transgender youth
Boxers Under The Tree - An Initiative in support of transgender youth
The effects of gender dysphoria vary from person-to-person but many people told us that that gender-affirming period underwear like our period boxers makes having a period a little more bearable.... Read more...
Halloween at Home
Halloween at Home
Check out these ideas for how to celebrate Halloween at home this year! Read more...