The Feminine Hygiene Price War: Why I Tell Peers to Stop Racing to the Bottom
2026-08-28
If I have said one thing repeatedly over the past few years, it is this: stop the price war.
Why? Because anyone can cut prices. You go lower, I go lower, and soon nobody makes money. The product gets worse. And the most dangerous part? Consumers are not stupid.
I lived through this cycle. A few years ago, period pants became popular. A pack could sell for forty or fifty yuan. Then factories poured in, production costs dropped, and the market filled with 9.9-yuan-for-14-packs and 19.9-yuan-for-30-packs. At those prices, what materials do you think were left in the product?
Cheap wins once. It does not win twice. The user tries it once, feels uncomfortable, and never comes back. Bad reviews pile up. Returns rise. The brand loses the customer permanently. You think you won the order. You actually lost the person.
Consumers are simple: use it well, and they order again. Use it badly, and they leave. No amount of marketing brings them back.
Our period pants grew because the product was genuinely thin, breathable, and secure. No big advertising spend. Just users recommending users. That is how trust compounds.
When everyone else cut prices, we held quality and built a brand matrix instead. Different products for different consumers — not one discounted item trying to please everyone.
Building a brand is hard. Destroying one is easy. The price war is the easiest road to walk, and the easiest way to walk yourself off a cliff. The hard but right path is to make the product good. It takes longer, but it lasts.
For brands sourcing OEM sanitary pads
Price is not the only variable. If your OEM partner has to slash materials to hit your target, your brand pays the cost later. Sustainable brand-building starts with product integrity.
At Nafei, we quote OEM sanitary pads and menstrual pants based on real material specs — SAP grade, core structure, breathable backsheet — not just a race to the bottom. Learn how we structure pricing: Sanitary Pads Wholesale & OEM Pricing.
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- Product type: period pants, sanitary pads or mixed OEM project
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