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...
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...
How Post-Secondary Institutions are Achieving Universal Sustainable Menstrual Equity
How Post-Secondary Institutions are Achieving Universal Sustainable Menstrual Equity
When it comes to period poverty, reusable menstrual products have an essential role to play in achieving universal, sustainable menstrual equity. The Aisle team has created a new free resource... 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...
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...
Walking the Sustainability Talk: Our Life Cycle Assessment
Walking the Sustainability Talk: Our Life Cycle Assessment
Living in an era of climate emergency, we all want to do what we can to make a difference. However, as consumers it can be challenging to identify greenwashing (false... Read more...
Aisle’s 2021 Social and Environmental Impact Report
Aisle’s 2021 Social and Environmental Impact Report
Sustainability and transparency are two important value pillars for Aisle. While many of our efforts are ongoing (such as our commitment to being a top ranked B Corp and conducting... Read more...
The COVID-19 Vaccine and your period
The COVID-19 Vaccine And Your Period
There's been a lot of questions about how and whether the COVID-19 vaccines affect your period. Let's dig into them. Read more...
2020: Here’s How We Did
2020: Here’s How We Did
We’ve put together two reports, on our social and environmental impact and the work we did in 2020 to measure our impact on the planet and our community. Read more...
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Standing Up To White Supremacy
We commit to ongoing, continuous, rigorous reflection internally and externally about ways we can stand in solidarity with Black, Indigenous and other people of colour and work to dismantle white... Read more...
An Update Regarding COVID-19
An Update Regarding COVID-19
Aisle is committed to a safe and secure working environment; taking care of each other and our community is a priority. Read more...
The Big Reveal
The Big Reveal
Welcome to the new period aisle, where products are comfortable & effective, shame is shown the door, and sustainability is non-negotiable.  Read more...
A Period Emoji Is Coming Later This Year And Texting Just Got Way Better
A Period Emoji Is Coming Later This Year And Texting Just Got Way Better
Bustin' period shame, one text at a time. Read more...
25 Years of Awesome
25 Years of Awesome
As Lunapads hits the big 25, our co-founder Madeleine Shaw reflects on how far the company has come - and how far it is going to go. Read more...
This Is What A Feminist Business Looks Like
This Is What A Feminist Business Looks Like
As feminists and entrepreneurs, Madeleine and Suzanne have been working for nearly 20 years to run an unapologetically feminist for-profit business. Unfortunately, we’re now seeing brands co-opting feminist values in... Read more...
Period Emojis: Destigmatizing Periods or Just More Coded Language?
Period Emojis: Destigmatizing Periods or Just More Coded Language?
Image: Bodyform/SCA Recently, we learned about Bodyform's "femoji" campaign petitioning Unicode to add a set of period-themed emojis to their lexicon. The change.org petition says this will encourage those who... Read more...
Shameless Marketing
Shameless Marketing
There are few experiences in life that suck more than when your intention and its impact become radically disconnected. And yet that’s what happened recently when we learned that one... Read more...
Moldy Tampon Turmoil
Moldy Tampon Turmoil
"Eww"; it's a reaction we hear a lot from people who are learning about the concept of reusable menstrual products for the first time. Frankly, we aren't surprised that people... Read more...