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Kotex is a brand of feminine hygiene products, which includes the Kotex maxi, thin and ultra thin pads, the Security tampons, and the Lightdays pantiliners. Most recently, the company has added U by Kotex to its line of feminine hygiene products. Kotex is owned and managed by Kimberly-Clark, a consumer products corporation active in more than 80 countries. The modern, commercial, disposable pads seem to have started in the late nineteenth century with the Hartmann company in Germany and Johnson & Johnson in the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Museum of Menstruation )〕 In the United States, Kotex became well known in the 1920s, when Kimberly-Clark placed adverts in ''Good Housekeeping'' magazine. Although some readers were offended by the ads, the products' success led to more advertisements. Kimberly-Clark also promoted Kotex in ''Good Housekeeping'' by using intimate advice columnist Mary Pauline Callender.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Museum of Menstruation )〕 In August 2009, Kotex launched a premium subbrand called Kotex Luxe in Singapore. It launched U by Kotex Tween, products aimed at girls aged eight to twelve, in the US in 2011. In September 2012, Kimberly-Clark issued a warning regarding a shipment of rejected Kotex tampons that had been stolen and sold to the public. The company said that the defective products posed only a minor health risk to consumers. ==In popular culture== Quest Deodorant Powder for Sanitary Napkins,〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Museum of Menstruation )〕 a feminine hygiene product formerly made by Kotex, is featured prominently in the ''Mad Men'' episode "Collaborators" (season 6 episode 3, air date 14 April 2013). Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss) finds a container of Quest on her desk, along with a folder detailing three talk points about the product, one of which details the target audience: "working women and other Olsons". Peggy mistakes the practical joke as an actual assignment from her boss, Ted Chaough (Kevin Rahm), who has to explain her copywriters have "pranked" her. The end of the episode shows that Peggy has saved the product in her top desk drawer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kotex」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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