The Female Company is an online shop which sells organic female sanitary products. Their products are vegan, produced without being animal-tested and with every sold product the company supports Indian women who otherwise can’t afford hygiene products. But although affordable sanitary products doesn’t seem to be a big issue in Germany there is still injustice:

Caviar, Truffles and even oil paintings – in Germany many luxury goods are taxed with the reduced rate of only 7 percent while tampons and other female sanitary products attract the top value added tax rate of 19 percent. The so-called tampon tax provoked international protests in recent years and has already been abolished in countries like Canada and Kenya and even some US-States. However, in Germany, tampons are still taxed as luxury goods and politicians refused to act. Therefore, The Female Company wanted to take the lead in the feminist movement against the