'There was certainly a learning curve. And I thought, 'I can't be the only one with this problem. There has to be a better way to do it.''
INDIANAPOLIS — Menstrual cups are better for the environment, easier on the wallet, and, let's be honest, better for vaginal health.
Cindy Belardo, CEO and co-founder of Sunny Period, told WRTV it was her background in environmental studies and pre-medicine that lead her to actively lower her ecological footprint. "There was certainly a learning curve. And I thought, 'I can't be the only one with this problem. There has to be a better way to do it,'" Jarvis said of the challenging first time she used a menstrual cup.
The Sunny Cup and Applicator is a menstrual cup that comes with an extra nozzle to apply the silicone cup, essentially inserting through the vaginal opening to the vagina, the same as a tampon."The main issue people were speaking about was, 'how do you get started for a beginner?'" She further explained."Maybe someone who's used tampons before, but was still not sure how to make that switch, you know, it doesn't quite translate.
Around that same time, Belardo, 25, was on a grant-funded trip to help lower the level of period poverty in northern India. "They were like, 'Hey, what are the odds? There are two young women working in the period care space, trying to make a new menstrual cup.' And yeah, that's kind of how we got started and how Sunny and the Sunny Cup came to be," Jarvis said.Jarvis and Belardo started down the path of period care because they were so passionate about eradicating period poverty and changing the conversations our society has about menstrual cycles.