Overnight Long Menstrual Pads vs Chlorine Free Maxi Pads: which is safer?

Seventh Generation Chlorine Free Maxi Pads is the clear pick. Always Infinity Overnight Long Menstrual Pads carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.

Always Infinity Overnight Long Menstrual Pads

Always Infinity

Overnight Long Menstrual Pads

PFAS grade

Poor 25/100

Overall grade

Bad 7/100

Verdict

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Hazard flags

⚑ 3

Material

nonwoven layers, likely polyethylene or polypropylene with unspecified water-resistant coating

Confidence

35%

PossiblePFAS in water-resistant back coating (undisclosed chemistry)

PossibleMicroplastics or coating degradation during extended wear

ReportedDermal sensitization or allergic reaction to coating additives

Our pick

Seventh Generation Chlorine Free Maxi Pads

Seventh Generation

Chlorine Free Maxi Pads

PFAS grade

Excellent 100/100

Overall grade

Excellent 96/100

Verdict

Buy

Hazard flags

⚑ 1

Material

organic cotton, wood pulp

Confidence

78%

PossibleFragrance allergen content

Where these two actually differ

  • We flag PFAS in water-resistant back coating (undisclosed chemistry), Microplastics or coating degradation during extended wear and Dermal sensitization or allergic reaction to coating additives on the Always Infinity and not on the Seventh Generation.
  • We flag Fragrance allergen content on the Seventh Generation and not on the Always Infinity.
  • The Always Infinity is nonwoven layers, likely polyethylene or polypropylene with unspecified water-resistant coating where the Seventh Generation is organic cotton, wood pulp, which is most of the difference in these two grades.
  • The gap is 75 points, wide enough that this is not a close call, and the Seventh Generation is the one to buy.
  • We are less certain about the Always Infinity grade, at 35% confidence against 78%, because it discloses less.

Both products run through the same public rubric: materials, coatings, brand disclosure, lab findings, and recalls, plus a beyond-PFAS hazard analysis. Grades are model-based estimates, not lab tests. How grades work →

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