Incredible comfort and protection. Comfortable plastic applicator tampons. Exclusive cross pad design expands to custom fit your body for incredible comfort and protection. Pearlscent, rounded tip plastic applicator provides smooth, comfortable insertion. Each absorbency range represents the grams of fluid that can be absorbed by all manufacturers' tampons based on a standardized laboratory test. Use this chart to compare the absorbencies of Playtex Tampons to other brands.