When asked about this unhygienic practice, she explained that buying sanitary napkins made by multinational corporations would mean they would not have money for milk.
Adult diapers are made in various forms, including those resembling traditional child diapers, underpants, and pads resembling sanitary napkins (known as incontinence pads).
The delegation visited a sanitary napkin and handicrafts products making units, apart from the shop selling them, all under the care and maintenance of women self-help groups.
They also sell other goods procured from schoolgirls, e.g. undergarments, school swimsuits for physical education, socks, stationery, sanitary napkins, tampons, saliva, urine, and feces.
With the arrival of the traders the fox skin became a valuable source for trade, however, traditionally the skin was not often used except as a sanitary napkin.