Tampax - Discreet so you can get on with your life

Tampax tampons provide outstanding protection. The Tampax range includes both applicator and non-applicator tampons. They are all easy to use and comfortable to wear and come in a number of absorbencies to suit your flow. They’re worn internally so they’re incredibly discreet so you can forget about your periods and get on with your life.

Tampax Applicator
The original Tampax applicator tampons come with a smooth, glossy cardboard applicator specially designed to help you guide the tampon easily into place.

Tampax Applicator tampons are available in Lites, Regular, Super, Super Plus and as a Multi-pack - offering you outstanding protection whatever your needs.


Tampax Compak
Tampax Compak are the smallest available applicator tampons in the UK . That’s because they feature a unique, smooth compact plastic applicator, which means they fit easily in the palm of your hand but will extend to full size for easy insertion. While their applicators are super small, Compak tampons are just as absorbent as original Tampax applicator tampons. Thanks to their subtle individual packaging, Tampax Compak tampons are really discreet.

Available in Lites, Regular, Super and Super Plus absorbencies and as a Multi-pack.


Tampax Non Applicator
Like all Tampax tampons the Non-Applicator range absorb the period flow internally and they’re easy to insert thanks to their tapered tip, smooth outer cover and indented base. Tampax Non-Applicator boxes are small enough to fit inside the tiniest of clutch bags!

Available in Regular, Super, Super Plus and as a Multi-pack.

N.B. Always use the lowest absorbency to suit your flow and change your tampon every 4-8 hours.

Tampax - the first patented tampon - was invented by US Denver, Colorado, physician Dr. Earle Cleveland Haas in 1929. His patent was approved on November 19, 1931 and trademarked "Tampax." The rights to the product were sold to Wyoming investor Gertrude Tenderich in 1934.

Marketing this kind of product was enormously difficult in the 1930s. Salespeople worked very hard to persuade newspaper and magazine editors to run advertising; word-of-mouth and door-to-door female salespeople were the primary marketing tools. When World War II began and women moved increasingly into military and factory work, women discovered that Tampax could offer them remarkable freedom that they could not find with the sanitary pads then in use. In 1984, the company changed its name to Tambrands Inc.

Tambrands has manufactured Tampax tampons for almost 60 years and is the worldwide market leader today. Tampax tampons are sold in over 150 countries and are used with confidence by more than 100 million women. P&G acquired Tambrands in 1997.