Saalt
About Saalt
Saalt is a female-founded, women-owned period care company with the vision to make cleaner, more sustainable period care accessible to everyone. We support individuals to make better choices for their menstrual health through stigma-breaking branding and an industry-leading product line that offers modern, reusable products to the mainstream consumer. In an era where disposable products yield more profit, Saalt offers only clean and toxin-free products that are healthier for both consumers and our planet. We also believe that business governed by strong ethics creates a powerful vehicle to bring about positive change. As a certified B Corp, Saalt allocates 2% of revenue to donate improved period care to areas with the most need, and funds initiatives in menstrual health, girls education, and environmental sustainability. Since Saalt’s launch in 2018, Saalt has donated over 20,000 period cups to underprivileged women and girls in 34 countries to help them confidently manage their periods, stay in school, and lift themselves out of poverty.
B Corp Status: Certified
Other Certifications: Plastic Negative, ISO 13485, MDSAP
Meet the Founder, Cherie Hoeger
Saalt's story begins with Cherie, our CEO and co-founder. She has a period and 5 daughters. You could say, she gets period care.
Saalt started with a phone call Cherie made to an aunt in Venezuela, where pads and tampons had not been available in stores for years. She immediately thought of her daughters and what she would do if she found herself in the same situation. The dependence she and others had on disposables kept her up at night.
Three months later, Cherie was sourcing reusable menstrual pads for hundreds of friends. (These kinds of things are Cherie’s idea of a hobby. Not joking.) When she went to source a bulk order of menstrual cups, she couldn’t find one that met her ideal criteria. So she started custom designing her idea of the perfect cup.
Hand sketched drawings turned into fourteen design iterations, and in February of 2018, Saalt launched with the Saalt Cup and the vision of making cleaner, more sustainable period care accessible to everyone.
Why is the company called Saalt? The name Saalt represents something that is natural and essential for our bodies. We believe the best approach to period care should be just as natural, distinct, simple, and elemental.