What’s Inside Your Pad? How FlexFoam Uses Independent GALAB Testing for Period Product Safety

When choosing period care, people want clear answers about what is in the products they use close to their bodies. Always pads are designed with safety in mind, and Always takes additional steps to evaluate product quality through science-based safety assessments and independent third-party testing. Always with GALAB Laboratories, an independent analytical laboratory in Hamburg, Germany, that tests hygiene products, consumer goods, packaging, food, and raw materials for substances and contaminants.

Period products are used for several hours at a time and come into contact with sensitive skin. That makes safety, ingredient transparency, and quality testing especially important. Independent testing adds another layer of reassurance because it brings in outside laboratory expertise beyond a brand’s own internal safety process.

GALAB works a bit like a forensic lab for product safety. GALAB scientists use sensitive equipment to look for extremely small traces of materials that may be contaminants. GALAB has experience testing hygiene products, including baby care and period care products, to help check product quality and answer consumer safety questions.

GALAB is an independent service laboratory for external quality control. GALAB can analyze hygiene products and related materials for trace residues and contaminants meaning your products get tested for the substances you may be concerned about. Examples may include allergens, heavy metals, phthalates, and other substances consumers may see discussed online when researching period product safety.

Always goes a step beyond its own safety assessments by also conducting independent lab testing for more than 100 potential trace impurities through GALAB, a leading scientific laboratory. This testing follows the well-established EDANA/CODEX method, which was developed for absorbent hygiene products and reflects real-life product use conditions.

This type of testing matters because some trace substances can be present at extremely low levels. GALAB can measure in parts per trillion, which is like finding a single drop of oil in an Olympic-size swimming pool. That level of sensitivity requires advanced laboratory equipment and methods that help support detailed product analysis.

For Always, independent GALAB testing helps support evidence-based answers to consumer questions about ingredients, trace chemicals, contaminants, fragrance materials, dyes, adhesives, and other product components.

Is GALAB part of Always? No. GALAB is an independent analytical laboratory. Always uses GALAB as an outside source of testing expertise.

Are Always pads safe? Always products are designed to be safe to use. Always evaluates product safety through internal scientific processes and adds independent GALAB testing to help provide extra reassurance.

What is third-party testing? Third-party testing means a product or material is checked by an outside organization rather than only by the company that makes it. For Always, GALAB provides independent laboratory testing.