{"id":14023,"date":"2026-09-29T15:05:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T09:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuawoman.com\/blog\/?p=14023"},"modified":"2026-09-29T15:05:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T09:35:30","slug":"why-do-pads-have-fragrance-the-smell-economy-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuawoman.com\/blog\/why-do-pads-have-fragrance-the-smell-economy-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Pads Have Fragrance? The Smell Economy, Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s a summary of how we answer the question, \u201c<\/span><b>why do pads have fragrance<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A healthy period has a mild, natural scent, and the idea that periods need to smell &#8220;fresh&#8221; has largely been shaped by years of marketing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fragranced period products can expose the sensitive vulval skin to unnecessary chemicals that may increase the risk of irritation, rashes, and discomfort.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using scented pads or intimate products can disrupt the vagina&#8217;s natural balance, which may actually contribute to unwanted odours over time.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Staying fresh during your period is about changing your pad regularly, maintaining gentle hygiene, and choosing breathable, fragrance-free products.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Period care should focus on supporting your body&#8217;s natural balance rather than masking normal odours with perfumes or fragrances.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nua&#8217;s fragrance-free, toxic-free pads are designed to minimise irritation while providing comfortable, breathable protection throughout your period.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Think about how period products are sold to you, promising &#8220;freshness,&#8221; &#8220;odour lock\u201d. Every one of those promises carries an unspoken accusation, that your period has a smell problem, and that without help you are walking around offending the room with it. That is how a normal bodily fluid got recast as offensive, and how perfume became the fix on sale. That single idea, that your intimate bits need deodorising, built an entire category of period and intimate care products for women.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the smell economy. A conventional brand takes something normal about your body, convinces you it is shameful, sells you the cure, and then the cure creates a second problem you will also need a product for. Most <\/span><b>period smell myths<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> you have carried since you were a teenager were manufactured right here, on purpose, for profit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This begs the question \u2013 <\/span><b>why do pads have fragrance?<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Especially when a healthy period barely smells and the little smell it does have never reaches anyone but you. We\u2019re breaking it down.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Does Your Period Smell?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not as much as you\u2019ve been told. Menstrual fluid is not only blood. It is blood, plus bits of shed uterine lining and normal vaginal fluid, and on its own it is close to scentless. The faint metallic whiff you sometimes catch is just iron, the same metal coin smell you get from any blood, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/my.clevelandclinic.org\/health\/symptoms\/17905-vaginal-odor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">according to the Cleveland Clinic<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Blog continues after the ad.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuawoman.com\/sanitary-pads\/?utm_source=Blog&amp;utm_medium=PageAd&amp;utm_campaign=BlogAds_SP_021225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12418\" src=\"https:\/\/nuawoman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Blinkit_Masthead_SPSSP-300x210.png\" alt=\"Promotional banner on a coral background displaying Nua period pad boxes placed on elevated blocks. Text reads \u2018Zero Irritation, 4x Comfort. Explore Nua\u2019s Period Care Range.\u2019 with a \u2018Shop now\u2019 button.\" width=\"433\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nuawoman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Blinkit_Masthead_SPSSP-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/nuawoman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Blinkit_Masthead_SPSSP-1024x717.png 1024w, https:\/\/nuawoman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Blinkit_Masthead_SPSSP-768x538.png 768w, https:\/\/nuawoman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Blinkit_Masthead_SPSSP-360x252.png 360w, https:\/\/nuawoman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Blinkit_Masthead_SPSSP.png 1120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A smell only really develops once the fluid is out of your body and sitting on a pad, and it comes from two ordinary bits of chemistry. First, the blood meets air, and oxygen slowly reacts with it, the same way a sliced apple browns or iron rusts. That reaction, called oxidation, is what sharpens the metallic note over a few hours. Second, the fluid mixes with the bacteria that live in and around a healthy vagina. Most of these are Lactobacillus, friendly bacteria that produce lactic acid and keep the area slightly acidic, which is exactly the environment that keeps you healthy and fights off infection. When their normal activity meets menstrual blood, you get a mild, musky, slightly tangy scent. That is not a warning sign, it is the smell of a system working.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn more about period smell <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nuawoman.com\/blog\/does-period-blood-smell-whats-happening-and-how-to-manage-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Can the People Around You Smell Your Period?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No, your period does not smell from across the room. The one place you genuinely notice it is up close, in the bathroom, in the few seconds you are changing your pad with it right under your nose. And that\u2019s the smell that gets wildly oversold. The truth is that smell does not travel. It does not rise up through underwear, jeans and a chair to announce you to a meeting. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health\/why-does-my-period-smell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Health experts back this<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, period odour is generally not noticeable to anyone but you. The reason you are so aware of it is simple, you are the one person carrying it a few centimetres from your own nose all day. Everyone around you is oblivious.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Which brings the real question into focus, <\/span><b>why do pads have fragrance<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at all, if a normal period barely registers and never travels beyond you? The answer has nothing to do with your body.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>How The Smell Economy Actually Works<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To understand <\/span><b>why do pads have fragrance<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at all, you have to understand the behind it. Conventional brands took something normal about your body, convinced you it is shameful, and then sold you the only thing that will rescue you from the shame the brand created.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here is how the loop is built.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Invent the problem:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In the late 1960s, a wave of &#8220;feminine deodorant sprays&#8221; hit the shelves whose entire reason to exist was to deodorise women&#8217;s genitals. Brands were built on the message that your body was unclean down there and needed fixing, and the ads <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/1468-0424.12617\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sold it with plain shame<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/cfr\/text\/21\/740.12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Doctors at the time said the sprays were unnecessary and often harmful<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, linking them to irritation, sensitivity reactions and infections. The odour &#8220;problem&#8221; they promised to solve did not really exist until the advertising for it did. And the fear it planted did d outlived the ads by generations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Dress it up as hygiene:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This is the clever, cynical part. If a brand simply said &#8220;buy our perfume so you smell nicer,&#8221; you might pass. So it got rebranded as cleanliness and self-respect instead. Now, skipping the scented product does not feel like skipping a luxury, it feels like being unclean, like failing at basic self-care. A want gets disguised as a need. Once &#8220;fresh&#8221; comes to mean &#8220;clean,&#8221; and &#8220;natural&#8221; comes to mean &#8220;dirty,&#8221; you start policing yourself.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Sell you the cure:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In walk scented pads, liners, wipes and sprays, each promising freshness and &#8220;odour lock.&#8221; If you have ever wondered <\/span><b>why do pads have fragrance<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> when a plain pad performs identically, this is the answer, fragrance costs almost nothing to add and lets an ordinary product be sold as a premium upgrade. You pay more to solve a problem that was also sold to you for free.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Profit from the silence:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Shame is the perfect marketing engine because it keeps people quiet. Almost nobody stands in a shop and says out loud, &#8220;wait, does my period even smell bad enough to need this?&#8221; The embarrassment stops the question from being asked, so the premise is never checked, and the products keep moving.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And here is the twist that makes the whole thing self-sustaining, and it is the part we will get into next. The &#8220;cure&#8221; does not just fail to fix anything. It can actively cause the exact smell it promised to prevent, which sends you straight back to buy more. It is a problem engineered to pay twice.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We decided a long time ago that we would never sell you that story. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nuawoman.com\/sanitary-pads\/?utm_source=Blog&amp;utm_medium=PageAd&amp;utm_campaign=BlogAds_SP_021225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Choose period care that skips the perfume entirely here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>What Added Fragrance To Period Care Actually Does To You<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By now, <\/span><b>why do pads have fragrance<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has an obvious answer, it sells. What is far less obvious, and much more important, is that the fragrance is not harmless. It can hurt you, and that comes down to what a scent is made of and where you are wearing it.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Fragrances can contain harmful chemicals:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> A scent works only because certain compounds are volatile, meaning they evaporate off the pad into the air so their molecules can reach your nose. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lung.org\/clean-air\/indoor-air\/indoor-air-pollutants\/fragrances\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the American Lung Association puts it<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a single fragrance can contain hundreds of these compounds, and on a label they are all allowed to hide behind the one word &#8220;fragrance,&#8221; with no requirement to name them. When researchers have actually tested period products, they have found this hidden chemistry. A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/1471-0528.17668\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2024 systematic review in the journal BJOG<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0160412020303494\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">an analysis in Environment International<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> both detected fragrance compounds, alongside other undisclosed additives like phthalates, across menstrual products, with scented items generally carrying more (read more about this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nuawoman.com\/blog\/chemical-free-sanitary-pads-the-science-of-comfort-and-skin-protection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>The skin on your vulva absorbs these chemicals differently:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The skin on your vulva is thin, usually damp and packed with tiny blood vessels, much closer to the skin inside your lip than the skin on your arm. Tissue like that is built to absorb, and because fragrance compounds are small and volatile, they slip into it easily. A scent that sits harmlessly on your wrist is a completely different proposition pressed against absorbent skin, for eight hours at a stretch. That is why <\/span><b>fragrance in sanitary pads<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> deserves far more scrutiny than fragrance in a hand cream you rinse off in a minute.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>It irritates the skin it sits on:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Fragrance is one of the most common causes of contact allergy in everyday products, and against warm, covered, sensitive skin it can bring on redness, itching and inflammation of the vulva. So if you\u2019re wondering, <\/span><b>can scented pads cause rashes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">? They can, and for plenty of people they do. Read more about allergens in pads <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nuawoman.com\/blog\/decoding-labels-what-hypoallergenic-sanitary-pads-really-means\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Fragrances can actually <\/b><b><i>cause<\/i><\/b><b> odour:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Fragranced products can upset the acidic, Lactobacillus-run balance that actually keeps you fresh. Tip that balance and you become more prone to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/1745505717731011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bacterial vaginosis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an overgrowth of the wrong bacteria that produces a genuinely strong, fishy odour. Read that again slowly. The perfume marketed to hide smell is one of the more reliable ways to cause the real thing. And when it does, what do most people reach for to cover it? Another scented product. That is the loop, sold to you as freshness, delivering the exact problem it promised to prevent, then selling you the &#8220;solution&#8221; a second time.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is real relief in a pad that is not working against your own chemistry. That is the entire idea behind Nua\u2019s, 100% toxic-free, with no added fragrance to absorb, react to, or apologise for. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nuawoman.com\/sanitary-pads\/?utm_source=Blog&amp;utm_medium=PageAd&amp;utm_campaign=BlogAds_SP_021225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Choose a pad your body does not have to fight here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>How To Actually Stay Fresh, Minus The Fragrance<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So if masking is the trap, what actually works? Real freshness on your period is about airflow, timing and protecting your own chemistry, never covering it. Here is the practical version.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Change your pad every 4 to 6 hours: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most period smell is just fluid oxidising against air and bacteria over time. Swap the pad before that builds up and there is almost nothing to notice. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Pick unscented, breathable pads:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Less irritation, and often less odour, because a breathable top sheet cuts the warm, damp, trapped conditions that odour-causing bacteria thrive in. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Clean the outside only, and keep it gentle:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Your vagina cleans itself, so it needs nothing from you internally. For the vulva, the outside, warm water is genuinely enough. If you like the feel of a wash, avoid anything scented or any regular &#8220;body wash,&#8221; and choose a gentle, pH-balanced one made for this skin, like <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nuawoman.com\/foaming-intimate-wash\/?utm_source=Blog&amp;utm_medium=PageAd&amp;utm_campaign=BlogAds_Intimate_Wash_021225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nua\u2019s Foaming Intimate Wash<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which uses lactic acid to support the same acidic balance your body relies on, instead of stripping or perfuming it. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Never douche or use internal sprays:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> These are the fastest route to the imbalance and odour you are trying to avoid. Rinsing or spraying inside flushes out the good bacteria and invites the very smell you were worried about. Read more about douching <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nuawoman.com\/blog\/vaginal-douching-what-it-is-and-why-you-really-shouldnt-do-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Wear breathable cotton underwear:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Synthetic fabrics trap heat and moisture, which is precisely the environment odour needs to develop. Cotton lets things breathe, especially overnight.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Read past the front of the box.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Words like &#8220;fresh,&#8221; &#8220;odour-lock&#8221; and &#8220;scented&#8221; are marketing, not benefits. Turn the pack over, find the ingredient list, and skip anything with added fragrance or perfume.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of everything on that list, the pad itself is the swap you will feel first. We built ours on exactly this principle, that period care should never cost you comfort or peace of mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuawoman.com\/sanitary-pads\/?utm_source=Blog&amp;utm_medium=PageAd&amp;utm_campaign=BlogAds_SP_021225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meet the least irritating part of your period!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>Fresh Was Never A Fragrance<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b><\/b><b><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The smell economy only works while you believe the premise. Once you know that a healthy period barely smells, that the little scent there is stays with you and no one else, and that the perfume sold to &#8220;fix&#8221; it is a leading cause of the irritation and odour it claimed to prevent, the whole pitch falls apart. That is the real answer to <\/span><b>why do pads have fragrance<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Not for your benefit, but for the story that keeps you buying.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At Nua, our Zero Irritation promise is, at heart, a refusal to sell you that story. No artificial fragrance, no plastic-y textures, no asking your body to say sorry for existing. Just a pad soft and breathable enough that, as a lot of our community tell us, they forget it is there at all. That is what &#8220;fresh&#8221; should have meant the whole time. Not a scent poured over you, but the simple absence of anything working against you.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>FAQs<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<h3><b> Why do sanitary pads have fragrance?<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many scented pads are marketed to make periods feel &#8220;fresher&#8221; and mask natural odours. However, a healthy period usually has only a mild natural scent and doesn&#8217;t require added fragrance.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>\n<h3><b> Do scented pads help prevent period odour?<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not really. The best way to manage period odour is by changing your pad regularly, maintaining gentle hygiene, and using breathable, fragrance-free period products.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>\n<h3><b> Can scented pads cause irritation?<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes. Added fragrances can irritate the sensitive vulval skin and may increase the risk of itching, rashes, redness, or discomfort, especially for people with sensitive skin.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>\n<h3><b> Can fragranced period products make odour worse?<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They can. Fragranced products may disrupt the vagina&#8217;s natural balance of healthy bacteria, which can contribute to unpleasant odours over time.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li>\n<h3><b> Are fragrance-free pads better for sensitive skin?<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For many people, yes. Fragrance-free pads reduce unnecessary exposure to potential irritants and can help minimise skin irritation while keeping you comfortable throughout your period.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The content of this article is provided for general informational and educational purposes only and is not intended to constitute medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The information shared is of a general nature and may not be appropriate for all individuals or specific circumstances. Readers should not disregard, delay, or substitute professional medical advice based on the information contained herein.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you experience any symptoms, notice anything unusual, or have concerns relating to your health or overall wellbeing, you should consult a qualified healthcare professional. 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