Aisle’s Super Pad, a reusable cloth menstrual pad that is soft, extra-large, and reliably absorbent, is truly superlative.
After three decades of menstruating and over three years of covering period products for Wirecutter, I’ve mopped up my menses with everything from sea sponges to homemade interlabial pads (video). Nothing I’ve tried compares to the Super Pad in terms of comfort, capacity, and—dare I say it—charm.
Soft and highly absorbent, this pad wears and washes better than the competition.
Now, not everyone needs (or wants) to plunk down roughly $22 for a single menstrual pad, no matter how many uses it may afford. But among reusable pads, the Super Pad is, to me, well worth the additional spend. Compared with other options, which absorb less fluid, become horribly stained, shift around too much in underwear, or irritate skin, the Aisle pad feels like a security blanket for the vulva. Call me Linus van Pelt (video), because after years of exclusively being team period underwear, only using pads or tampons in order to review them, I now cannot imagine parting from my Super Pad.
I’ve spent the better part of a year bleeding onto eight types of reusable pads. A few months in I noticed myself subconsciously saving the Super Pad for the heaviest day of my flow, feeling confident in its capacity to handle whatever clots and other uterine chaos comes its way.
