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Final week of Birthday Celebrations

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This is our Final Week of tenth Birthday Celebrations. There’s still chance to get involved in the last few days with a treasure hunt competition and discount code valid until the end of the month. Birthday Discount For the whole of this month, we’ve been offering a 15% discount off everything on our website. There’s still time to take advantage of this for the last few days of our celebrations. Simply enter the code ywzff2yt at the checkout and the discount will be applied to our total. If you’re outside of New Zealand, then there’s even more incentive to take advantage of this, as we’re now shipping via DHL which means that you get your order much quicker. Treasure Hunt Our final big event for this special month is a treasure hunt on our website. We have two fantastic prize packages up for grabs. One is a cloth nappy pack. The other a reusable menstrual set. You can choose which one you would prefer when you enter. All of the answers are easy to find from our website. To take part, c

Website Treasure Hunt

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As part of our tenth anniversary celebrations we are having a Website Treasure Hunt. Find your way around our website answering questions as you go and be in to win some great prizes. How it works Our treasure hunt is actually a series of questions that you will be able to find the answer to by looking around the Nappyneedz website. Starting on Monday the 23rd of November you’ll have until Sunday the 29th of November 2020. During this time you can have a good look around our website, finding the answers to the questions as you go. Website Treasure Hunt Prizes As we sell both cloth nappies and reusable menstrual products on our site, I decided to have two different prize packages. Cloth nappy Prize pack Dinky nappy Wet bag Hemp booster 6 bamboo wipes Happy flute OSFM nappy. Total prize pack value $57. Menstrual prize pack Menstrual cup Twill small and medium pads Sherpa small and medium pads Mini wet bag Petite pad Liner pad Menstrual cup sterilizer. Total prize pack value $57.30. You c

My reusable menstrual products journey

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My reusable menstrual products journey is the story of how washable pads and cups started being stocked on Nappyneedz. For our tenth anniversary I’m sharing some of the behind the scenes stories from the last ten years. Switching to a menstrual cup I have to admit that when I was younger, I’d never even heard of a menstrual cup. I had tried to find something better for the environment and with fewer chemicals than the usual disposable options. For a while, I used unbleached organic cotton tampons and pads, but they were still disposable, which isn’t great. When you consider that women on average will go through around 9120 tampons in their life, that’s an awful lot of single-use products being thrown away. In my early twenties, I heard about menstrual cups and made the switch. They had all of the advantages of tampons, but I could reuse my cup each month. I was sold. Washable menstrual pads When it comes to washable menstrual pads, my journey was a little different. I hadn’t even real

Designing a cloth nappy

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Designing a cloth nappy take a lot of time, effort and testing. As part of our tenth anniversary, I thought I’d share the story of our pocket nappy, the Dinky nappy. The early days Back when my oldest son was only one, I had been using cloth nappies on him for a while. I decided, being as I was fairly handy with a sewing machine, to try my hand at making my own. At that stage, I wasn’t ready to try designing a cloth nappy, so I stuck to the patterns that I could find online. Over time, I experimented with different fabrics and different designs. I tried lots of different brands that were on the market. All the time, I was looking at the features that seemed to work well and that I wanted to incorporate in my ideal nappy. Designing the dinky nappy When I first set up Nappyneedz back in 2010, I was making nearly all of the products that we sold. The first cloth nappies that I had were quite basic. But this soon evolved into the dinky nappy . This combined lots of the features that I had