Impact Report - Health
Born to B different
We're not the first company to want to be a force for good. In fact, DAME is part of a movement of companies who compete not only to be the best in the world, but to be the best for the world.
That's because we're one of the growing number of certified B Corps around the world who have made a legal commitment to hold people, planet and profit in equal standing.
Time to cotton on to organic
Cotton is the main material in our reusable pads, tampons and period pants.
Cotton is the most used fibre on the planet, and the conventional methods for farming it disrupt nature’s natural rhythm, requiring water and chemicals to be pumped in to make up for depleted soil.
More pesticides are used on cotton than any other crop. Environmental concerns aside, not only do we not want these chemicals anywhere near our vaginas, we don’t want them near farmers either.
The UN estimates that 200,000 deaths a year are caused by acute pesticide poisoning. All our cotton is GOTS certified. Meaning it's better for you, better for the soil, and better for the people who farm it.
Could you be having a more comfortable period?
We’d heard anecdotally from our customers that they’d experienced less irritation and even lighter flows after switching to DAME. We wanted to understand this better so we surveyed over 400 of our customers.
50.7% of you said your periods got lighter after switching to DAME, and 63% said you experienced less irritation than with previous tampons. Asking the same question on an instagram poll, we found that 82% of respondents experienced less irritation.
This is potentially huge. There must be millions of people unnecessarily experiencing discomfort every day. This has inspired us to partner with a medical research firm to work on a much bigger piece of research - watch this space!
Get rid of bad guests
Most of us are on autopilot when we buy period products, rarely deviating from the brands given to us when we first started bleeding as teens.
That means most of us haven’t known anything other than period products full of chemicals and synthetic materials.
What if some of the discomfort you've experienced was not natural, but caused by poor quality products? We wanted to find out.
