Built for day-to-night wear during menstruation. Every option below shares the same pull-on architecture: a soft non-woven body, an elasticised waist, and a laminated absorbent gusset sealed into the crotch seam. What changes between them is core weight, gusset length, pack format and price band.
Disposable period pants sit between two products that buyers already know: the sanitary pad and the washable period brief. They borrow the pad's absorbent core and the brief's waistband, and the result is a single item that replaces both on heavy days and overnight. For a brand, that means one SKU can carry a premium price without asking the customer to change behaviour.
This page covers the build, the commercial terms and the specification decisions that actually move cost. If you are comparing suppliers, the three numbers that matter are gusset capacity in millilitres, the SAP loading in grams, and the pack count per carton.
Every pair on the market is a laminate of four functional layers, assembled on a baby-diaper line and then cut to a brief silhouette. The construction is not complicated, but the order of the layers and the way they are bonded decide whether the product leaks.
The waistband is elasticised and heat-sealed, and the leg openings carry a standing leak guard cuff. Those two details separate a garment that survives a night's movement from one that does not.
Pad absorbency is usually sold on a 1–6 scale that means little outside the supplier's own catalogue. Period pants are quoted more usefully in millilitres held by the gusset, and the commercial bands are fairly consistent across factories:
| Capacity band | What it covers | Typical use |
|---|---|---|
| 30–40 ml | Light flow, end of cycle | Backup to a cup or tampon, spotting days |
| 50 ml | Regular daytime flow | The volume SKU in most ranges |
| 70 ml | Heavy day | Day two and three, long shifts, travel |
| 90 ml and above | Overnight and postpartum-adjacent | Supine wear, post-surgical recovery |
A 50 ml pant and a 90 ml pant are not the same product with more SAP. The gusset gets longer and wider, the core is built in two zones rather than one, and the leg cuff changes from a single fold to a two-ply barrier. Expect the unit cost to move roughly in proportion to the SAP mass plus a step for the extra material.
The matrix below is built from the references currently in our stock program. "References" counts how many distinct builds in the range specify that length, so it reads as an indicator of how standard each band is rather than as a product count.
| Size run | M | L | XL |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waist coverage | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom sizing | Waist and hip measured to your size chart; plus sizes to 3XL available on request. | ||
For a first order, the sensible starting set is a three-SKU ladder: one 50 ml day pant, one 70 ml heavy-day pant, and one 90 ml overnight pant. That covers the whole cycle with the fewest references to hold in stock, and it gives the customer a reason to buy the higher-margin item rather than defaulting to the cheapest.
| Minimum order | 27,500 – 65,000 pcs |
|---|---|
| Reference price | US$0.11 – 0.272 / pc, FOB |
| Sample | Free of charge, freight collect. Specification sheet travels with the sample. |
| Lead time | 15–25 days after artwork and specification approval; 7–15 days on stock builds. |
| Payment | 30% deposit on order, balance against copy of B/L. L/C at sight accepted on programs above 500,000 pcs. |
| Port | Xiamen or Shenzhen, buyer's choice. |
Prices move with two inputs you do not control: SAP index price and fluff pulp. Both are quoted monthly and both have been volatile. If you are planning a retail price for a twelve-month program, ask for the quotation to state the SAP reference month, and build a 5–8% band into your margin rather than a single number.
Three channels account for most of the volume, and each wants a different product:
Before a line starts, the specification sheet should fix the following. Anything left open here becomes a dispute later:
If a supplier cannot answer the first two in writing, the quotation is not comparable with anyone else's.
A pad adheres to underwear; a period pant is the underwear. The pant carries its own gusset, waistband and leg cuffs, so it stays in place through movement and holds fluid in a shaped core rather than relying on wings and adhesive. In practice a pant replaces the pad-and-brief combination for heavy days and overnight wear.
At 70 ml gusset capacity and above, yes, provided the gusset is long enough to clear the rear. Most overnight failures are a length problem rather than a capacity problem: fluid migrates backwards when the wearer is supine, and a gusset that stops short of the rear seam will leak regardless of how much SAP the core holds.
Yes. The outer shell is printable in up to six colours, and the waistband can be dyed to match. Black is available and is the most requested colourway for overnight SKUs, because it hides any show-through and reads as a more premium garment on shelf.
Print adds a plate and a print run, so the floor sits higher than for an unprinted stock build. As a working rule, expect a printed run to start where the unprinted MOQ in the table above ends. Exact figures depend on pack format and the number of colours, and are quoted per specification.
Standard builds are not. The SAP and the PE backsheet are the two components that prevent it, and removing either changes performance. If biodegradability is a requirement for your market, say so at enquiry stage: we can quote a fluff-and-cellulose-heavy build with a reduced SAP load, but it will carry a lower capacity and a higher unit cost.
Certification is site-specific, so the honest answer is that it depends on the line the order runs on. We supply ISO 9001 for the production site and a test report covering absorbency, pH and microbial limits against GB 15979 for the batch. CE marking applies where the product is placed on the EU market as a hygiene article. Ask for the certificate scope document rather than the certificate alone, because a certificate that covers a different site tells you nothing.
We do not ask buyers to order from a table. Send the build you are considering and we courier a physical sample with its specification sheet, so absorbency and hand feel are checked before a purchase order exists.