Oh man, so many posts cleaned by "classwife"?? and I didn't get a chance to read them
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Using tampons for wicking?
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i dont care if whats in tampons is as pure as the wing driven snow,but,
NO!
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mike
NO!
regards
mike
OP, I tried rayon and while it wicked very well I found it a bit fiddly to get the quantity right.
Went for Shiseido cotton, same as Koh Gen Do and Muji and bought it from Hong Kong.
Works great and easily repeatable.
this looks the same, reasonable price & postage, replace dot ebay dot with 'dots'
http://www dot ebay dot co.uk/itm/SHISEIDO-MAKEUP-FACIAL-COTTON-165-sheets-/360950182992?pt=UK_Health_Beauty_Make_Up_Sets_LE&hash=item540a4eb450
Went for Shiseido cotton, same as Koh Gen Do and Muji and bought it from Hong Kong.
Works great and easily repeatable.
this looks the same, reasonable price & postage, replace dot ebay dot with 'dots'
http://www dot ebay dot co.uk/itm/SHISEIDO-MAKEUP-FACIAL-COTTON-165-sheets-/360950182992?pt=UK_Health_Beauty_Make_Up_Sets_LE&hash=item540a4eb450
I have this mental vision of a bunch of guys lined up at the walmart checkout... arms full of tampon boxes.. LOL
This was a genuine query. I randomly came across a link today while browsing the web… 10 Amazing Things Invented By Accident and Kotex (Cotton Texture, aka Cellucotton was number 1 out the list) - do read, it really is interesting 
*edit, as I am unable to paste links it reads as follows:
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First of all, the name “Kotex” was derived from the words “cotton texture.”
The story of the origin of Kotex is such a compelling one, we’ll quote directly from Kimberly-Clark’s website.
In hospitals and first aid stations during World War I, Kimberly-Clark’s cellulose wadding often replaced cotton which was in short supply. Through the ingenuity of army nurses, the wadding was adapted for menstrual purposes. In 1920 it was introduced as Kimberly-Clark’s first consumer product.
Though no soldiers were charging about the battlefield with sanitary napkins tied to their arms, a new type of material which had proved so effective as bandages in that conflict was years later revamped into Kotex. What was invented to meet a critical need in a war soon afterwards found a valuable peacetime use.
Kotex is a product of the Kimberly-Clark company. In 1914 this (then) conservative supplier of paper developed an absorbent wadding from processed wood and dubbed it Cellucotton. Five times as absorbent as cotton and costing only half as much, Cellucotton was used to bandage wounds in World War I. (Kimberly-Clark agreed to provide it to the War Department at cost, refusing the chance to make a healthy profit.)
After the war (1919), Kimberly-Clark faced the question of what to do with Cellucotton. The company hit upon the notion of marketing disposable sanitary napkins. Prior to this invention, women used and reused cloth rags — this was indeed groundbreaking stuff.
The resulting product was first marketed as Cellunap, a contraction of “Cellucotton napkins.” Immediately upon hire, Kimberly-Clark’s first marketing agency (Charles F.W. Nichols Company) suggested changing the name to Kotex, short for “cotton textile”.
Though there were still battles to be waged in getting magazines to accept ads for this product, stores to stock it, and women to buy it, by 1945 nearly all American women were using commercially-made pads and tampons. (Tampax came on the market in 1936.) The days of the cloth rags were over.
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*edit, as I am unable to paste links it reads as follows: ============
First of all, the name “Kotex” was derived from the words “cotton texture.”
The story of the origin of Kotex is such a compelling one, we’ll quote directly from Kimberly-Clark’s website.
In hospitals and first aid stations during World War I, Kimberly-Clark’s cellulose wadding often replaced cotton which was in short supply. Through the ingenuity of army nurses, the wadding was adapted for menstrual purposes. In 1920 it was introduced as Kimberly-Clark’s first consumer product.
Though no soldiers were charging about the battlefield with sanitary napkins tied to their arms, a new type of material which had proved so effective as bandages in that conflict was years later revamped into Kotex. What was invented to meet a critical need in a war soon afterwards found a valuable peacetime use.
Kotex is a product of the Kimberly-Clark company. In 1914 this (then) conservative supplier of paper developed an absorbent wadding from processed wood and dubbed it Cellucotton. Five times as absorbent as cotton and costing only half as much, Cellucotton was used to bandage wounds in World War I. (Kimberly-Clark agreed to provide it to the War Department at cost, refusing the chance to make a healthy profit.)
After the war (1919), Kimberly-Clark faced the question of what to do with Cellucotton. The company hit upon the notion of marketing disposable sanitary napkins. Prior to this invention, women used and reused cloth rags — this was indeed groundbreaking stuff.
The resulting product was first marketed as Cellunap, a contraction of “Cellucotton napkins.” Immediately upon hire, Kimberly-Clark’s first marketing agency (Charles F.W. Nichols Company) suggested changing the name to Kotex, short for “cotton textile”.
Though there were still battles to be waged in getting magazines to accept ads for this product, stores to stock it, and women to buy it, by 1945 nearly all American women were using commercially-made pads and tampons. (Tampax came on the market in 1936.) The days of the cloth rags were over.
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