 Welcome to what Chelsea eats. Thank you so much for joining me today. Today I want to give you my thoughts on the Lullova period panties. I tested them and I want to share with you my thoughts. But first, my name is Chelsea Knudsen and I'm a certified holistic health coach and I coach women on how to heal naturally from female related conditions using food as medicine. So if you like what you see be sure to subscribe and hit the notification bell so you never miss an episode. So let's get started. I am going to share with you my honest opinion about these period panties. If you decide that you want to purchase these there is a 20% off discount code in the description box of this video. So let me tell you about these panties. They sent me the Maya hipster panties and this is what they look like. They're hipsters. They're very soft. They're adorable. They're like very much made of quality material. I've used them. They've been through the wash and I like them. Like I like the quality in them. They have six styles. They have a thong that holds a half a tampons worth of fluid. They have two bikini styles, one hipster, one hip hugger, and one high-waisted panty that holds two tampons worth of fluid. The thing about them is that they have four layers of protection that go from the front to the back of the underwear. So it starts here in the crotch with like far up in the crotch actually where there is layered material and then it goes all the way to the back. So it's like this strip that goes all the way around the panty which is good. So they have the four layers of protection that go from front to back of the underwear. One layer is for moisture wicking. It's cotton that is soft and breathable and that's true. The material on the underwear is soft and breathable. Like that is a true statement. The layer two is antimicrobial lining, the fight bacteria and odors. I don't really have odor when I have my cycle anyway. So I really couldn't vouch for this. But I imagine that that lining that is in the panty is going to help fight back from that. I had no smell at all. Layer three is a super absorbent fabric that holds up to two tampons worth of fluid. And in layer four is the part that is nylon. It's the outer layer and it keeps the fluid from leaking. The company recommends using the product at home the first time. I didn't. I just put them on and I did my daily activities. But I'd imagine if you are a heavy bleeder that you probably want to do that just so you can judge how much the panties are going to actually work for you. You can wear the panties alone or you can wear them as a backup. I wore them alone. And the way you take care of them is when you take them off you rinse them. You rinse you rinse until all of the blood is out of the underwear and then you wash them and then you hang them to dry. And it was pretty simple. I could be honest with you. I didn't like rinsing them. I didn't like dealing with that. But on the other hand it saves a lot of waste. And if you have enough of them and you're using them every time you have your cycle you are actually saving a lot of money. And if you get a system down while you're using the pads it probably won't be a big issue. But personally I just didn't like rinsing them out. But that's just me. Also when you wash them you want to make sure you don't use fabric softener because I believe they said that that could mess up the fabric. And so I'm a fabric softener user and I got to be honest when I put them in the washer I used fabric softener. Nothing happened but I believe that probably it probably would be best over time not to use fabric softener. So and I just I really just washed them with the rest of my color clothes colored underwear. So I washed them together with other things and it was perfectly fine. I thought that they were very comfortable. They don't feel thick which I was surprised because they have all those layers to keep the blood intact in the panties. These particular panties I believe are ones that hold heavier you know heavier days like if you have heavier days in which I don't have heavy periods. So I can't vouch for if this is going to work on somebody who has really heavy periods. I used to have really heavy periods is if you've been watching me for a while you know that but I don't have really heavy periods. The other thing I could say about this though is that I wish I had this when I was bleeding heavy because what I would have done is use this as an absolute backup for my period. There's no question that this would um if you have a um if you have like a really heavy period and you've got on an overnight pad and you're wearing a tampon and you're still afraid you're going to leak wearing these will help save you from the embarrassment of leaking through your pants and you know having to change while you're at work or you know bleeding through your light colored pants and everybody knows you're having a heavy period this if you if that's you if you're somebody who is bleeding extra like this these will be a lifesaver for you to wear when you have your period. I recommend them a hundred percent for that. Also I want to say that the material on these feels it almost reminds me of a bathing suit material that's sort of how it feels um if i'm describing how they feel but it it was comfortable so I wore them on my first the first day of my period it felt kind of weird not having a pad on it just kind of bleeding into the underwear it was is very weird it's not to say that that was bad it was just weird I mean I used to wearing a pad when I have my period that's the reality so I believe that takes some getting used to just wearing it without anything it felt somewhat damp after about five or six hours of wearing the the pad but I can say that nothing leaked out of the pad everything was perfect like it did not um I didn't have any accidents I didn't even feel like I was getting ready to have any accidents so here's a bit of an inconvenience is like when you when you're wearing them alone and not as a backup um you have to be in a position where you can actually take them off and put a new pair on so if you're out and about and you need to change like that's very inconvenient like I'm not going to do that personally I'm I'm just not um but some some of you might do that um they yeah like that's not one of the that's that's a that's a serious con to me like I'm not taking these off because it's like you take them off then what do you do with them I guess you can put them in like a little pouch or something or a ziplock bag and wait till you get home to rinse them out and all that but mmm I'm not doing that I'm not gonna do that but for the person that bleeds heavy and needs them as a backup they're going to be wonderful because you don't have to worry about any of that um or if you don't bleed very heavy I'm sure you can wear this thing the whole day and be fine it's possible depending on how light your your bleeding is the other thing I'm gonna say too is if you're going to use this as your primary tool as for taking care of your period every month you need quite a few of them because you need enough to wear during the day and the night and then you have to have time to put those in the washing machine and then hang them to dry and have you know a set ready so you can wear it for the next day so I don't know I mean I guess you would need like nine pair of them I mean that's me personally I'd need like three for a day and or so I guess six to nine pair that could be a investment upfront but over time you definitely would save money because what are regular pads especially if you buy natural ones six seven dollars a pack and some people go through two packs a month I don't I don't even go through one pack a month so it just really depends on you know what kind of investment you you want to make but if you're using them as a backup you just buy a few pair and then you have enough to last you so that you can use them through through your period you just have to make sure you launder them you know at the end of the day or the end of the second day or whatever to make sure that you have enough to serve as backup for yourself they don't really work for my lifestyle right now to use them as a standalone period product just for the inconvenience of changing them but for most of the clients that I work with they would definitely serve as a place for cutting down on stress and anxiety of overflowing their pads or you know bleeding at night and all that stuff so definitely the backup feature using them as a backup I would definitely recommend them if you can afford them put them in your budget to purchase them so that you can live a little bit more stress free during your cycle if you bleed heavy like it is really a worthy investment I believe so let me think let me know what you think about the period panties have you tried them yourself do you think you'll try them and don't forget I have the link for a 20 off discount down in the description box if you want to try them for yourself if you like this video please give it a thumbs up share it with a friend and don't forget to subscribe until next time y'all thank you so much for watching take care