Always pads and liners are made from with only high-quality ingredients from accredited suppliers, each chosen to be gentle on your skin and designed to provide great comfort and protection. Your safety is at the centre of every choice we make, and every material has a clear purpose.
We also know you want to understand what is in the products you use every day, and you should. Below, you'll find a full explanation of the composition of our products and the purpose each component serves, so you can choose the product that's right for you.
1-2 Topsheet and secondary topsheet
Soft top layer and secondary layer made of synthetic materials similar to those used in garments and in underwear. These synthetic materials are used to quickly channel the liquids into the absorbent core and keep your skin dry.
3 Absorbent core
Flexible core made from absorbent cellulose. In a different thinner form, this material is used in different items such as tea bags & everyday garments. This absorbent material has been used in pads since 1920s. The flexible core is wrapped in a thin synthetic layer to keep it together with absorbent gel pearls added to the core, to improve the absorbency.
4 Odour Neutralizing Technology
Our Odour Neutralizing Technology is an exclusive material that contains selected components with a light scent similar to perfume. It is applied to the bottom of the absorbent core layer; thus optimized to mask and neutralize malodour in pads.
5 Backsheet
Moisture proof back layer made from synthetic materials to keep the fluid inside.
6 Adhesives
Adhesive is used to ensure the pad adheres to panty.
Do you have question?
Please have a look to our Q&A or send us a message.
Yes. Always pads and liners are safe. They undergo over 20,000 independent laboratory tests every year, plus over 1,800 quality tests are carried out on pad materials during manufacturing before use, and are assessed by independent physicians, university scientists, and health authorities. Always sanitary pads and liners have been awarded the Skin Health Alliance 'Dermatologically Accredited' approval. Millions of women use our products safely every day, your safety is at the centre of everything we do.
Read more about our safety and innovation process, including how every product is tested before it reaches you.
No, our pads should not cause irritation to the skin. All our products go through rigorous safety tests to ensure they are safe for use. An example of a safety assessment can be found here.
Your safety is at the centre of everything we do, so like our unscented pads and liners, our scented products are safe for use. We select materials, including the fragrance in our scented products, which are not irritating and do not cause itching when used in a pad. Additionally, the fragrance used in our pads and liners meet the strict safety standards set by the International Fragrance Association, the world’s leading authority on fragrance safety. We recommend our unscented products for those who prefer fragrance-free products or who may be sensitive to fragrances.
All Always products meet rigorous safety and effectiveness standards, regardless of what they are made of. Always pads are designed to provide high levels of protection and comfort. The materials used in our pads better enables us to deliver these performance needs. For more information on the components see below.
No, Always Sensitive Essentials pads are purified by a totally chlorine free process, while the rest of our pads are purified using an elemental chlorine-free purification process. Both processes are equally safe.
Our suppliers use an elemental chlorine-free process to purify the cellulose fibres in our products. Purification eliminates natural impurities and cleans the fibres to make them ready for production. Whitening the fibres is a result of this process, but not its goal. Always Sensitive Essentials pads offer an option where the cellulose fibre is purified through an alternative method that is Total Chlorine Free and uses hydrogen peroxide.
No, we do not. Pigments that are used in some of our pads have been rigorously assessed by scientists, health care providers and authoritative bodies to assure they can be used safely.
Rest assured, our science-based assessment process works to ensure the safety of the women who use our products. Only the products and the materials that meet science-based safety standards can go to market. Further, we share our assessments with scientists, health care providers and authoritative bodies to assure that our products can be used safely. For more information about our safety process, check out this website.
Always is committed to ensuring that all of our products meet rigorous safety standards. In addition, we believe it is important to have our safety assessments and ingredients reviewed by independent experts, who put our products through their own skin safety requirements. That is why we are proud to have been awarded the Skin Health Alliance ‘Dermatologically Accredited’ approval.
Always pads are safe to use! Many everyday items may contain trace levels of environmental substances – which include metals like lead and arsenic. These can occasionally be detected using very sensitive analytical equipment. But rest assured, the trace amount of metals that could be found is very small – similar to the low amounts found in the food you consume every day.
Since these trace amounts can be found everywhere in the environment, regulatory bodies like the European Union and renowned agencies like the World Health Organisation (WHO) set allowable limits for things like drinking water to drive exposure to as low as reasonably achievable.
