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Menstrual Care Product Inflation
9-component retail basket · 12 tracked city areas
$151.43 – $159.07
Latest city range · basket total · USD
Lowest to highest across 12 cities-1.1%
Index change · month over month
toCity prices through
What does this price measure?
Daily city price movement for a nine-product basket spanning pads, tampons, liners, cups, discs, period underwear, wipes, pain relief, and heat patches.
What’s in the basket?
Menstrual Care Inflation Components
Breaks this composite into its component indexes, showing configured quantities, latest costs and basket shares, contribution changes, and selected-city trends over the same dates.- Cities
- 12
- Components
- 9
Composite driver summary
Summarizes the selected city's composite move and available component impacts over the same comparison dates.- Change in composite (30 days)
- -2.8%
- Sep 14, 2026 – Oct 14, 2026
- Total composite change
- -$4.35
- from $156.95 to $152.60
How components built the composite change
Start$156.95
- Menstrual pads-$2.35-1.5%
- Period underwear-$1.28-0.8%
- Feminine wipes-$0.72-0.5%
- Tampons+$0.58+0.4%
- Menstrual heat patches-$0.55-0.4%
- Menstrual pain relief-$0.27-0.2%
- Menstrual discs+$0.21+0.1%
- Pantyliners+$0.11+0.1%
- Menstrual cups-$0.09-0.1%
End$152.60
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Component price pages
Price for a 40-pad package equivalent.
40 pads
Price for a 40-tampon package equivalent.
40 tampons
Price for a 100-liner package equivalent.
100 liners
Price for one menstrual cup.
1 cup
Price for one menstrual disc.
1 disc
Price for one period underwear garment.
1 pair
Price for a 40-wipe package equivalent.
40 wipes
Price for a 40-dose package equivalent of menstrual pain relief.
40 doses
Price for a 4-patch package equivalent.
4 patches
Menstrual Care Inflation Methodology
Menstrual-care basket spanning pads, tampons, liners, cups, discs, period underwear, wipes, pain relief, and heat patches. Basket totals are expressed in U.S. dollars. The index line combines the component price indexes using their basket quantity weights. The band runs from the lowest to highest selected location. The headline range compares the lowest and highest city index values on the latest observation date. Changes in the mix of observed products can also affect the index. Charts can also show lower band, medium band and upper band.
Cite this data
CostInflation, "Menstrual Care Product Inflation" [menstrual_care_goods_index], CostInflation price history, https://costinflation.com/indices/menstrual-care-product-inflation.
Latest observation: Oct 14, 2026. Updated: Oct 14, 2026. Coverage: Cities.
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