{"id":224417,"date":"2025-11-03T05:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/menstrual-cup-upgrades-self-cleaning-and-sustainable-design-adjustments-could-make-them-easier-to-use"},"modified":"2025-11-03T05:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:07:10","slug":"menstrual-cup-upgrades-self-cleaning-and-sustainable-design-adjustments-could-make-them-easier-to-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/menstrual-cup-upgrades-self-cleaning-and-sustainable-design-adjustments-could-make-them-easier-to-use","title":{"rendered":"Menstrual cup upgrades: Self-cleaning and sustainable design adjustments could make them easier to use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/menstrual-cup-upgrades-self-cleaning-and-sustainable-design-adjustments-could-make-them-easier-to-use.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reusable menstrual cups reduce waste and are more cost-effective than single-use pads and tampons. But some people avoid the cups because they require thorough cleaning and are sometimes messy to empty. To solve these problems, researchers coated a commercially available silicone cup in silicone oil and created a plant-based, absorbent tablet. These design adjustments could make menstrual cups safer and easier to use, according to a study <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsami.5c16140\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in ACS Applied Materials &amp; Interfaces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis research bridges advanced engineering and women\u2019s health, creating a menstrual product that is not only self-cleaning and sustainable, but also opens doors for future health monitoring,\u201d says Tohid Didar, one of the senior researchers of this study from McMaster University.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 2 billion people menstruate, and their desire for sustainable, reusable options\u2014menstrual cups, disks and period underwear\u2014is rising. Menstrual cups are designed to hold more fluid than tampons, allowing longer wear than the disposable option, and they can be cleaned and reused for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reusable menstrual cups reduce waste and are more cost-effective than single-use pads and tampons. But some people avoid the cups because they require thorough cleaning and are sometimes messy to empty. To solve these problems, researchers coated a commercially available silicone cup in silicone oil and created a plant-based, absorbent tablet. These design adjustments could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1495,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-health","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}