pet polyester webs spunlace airlaids meltblowns apertured films tissues etc preferably the permeable non woven material is suitable for high temperature processing e g handling at temperatures of about 300 u00b0 f or higher in a particular embodiment the layers 14 and 16 are made from a composite comprising about 30 cotton and about 70 polypropylene fibers by weight and has a basis weight of 33 gsm grams per square meter a non woven material found to be useful in making the packets is sh ppc 33 manufactured by shalag nonwoven of israel optionally the layer 16 may be a folded over portion of the layer 14 optionally the layers 14 and 16 may comprise lengths of material with which a plurality of packets are formed to provide a length 20 of interconnected temperature change packets 10 as shown in fig3 the length 20 of temperature change packets may be wound up in pancake rolls or traverse spools a length 20 of temperature change packets 10 may then be installed on a tampon manufacturing machine the length 20 of temperature change packets 10 may be unwound and cut into individual temperature change packets 10 for incorporation into temperature change pledgets as shown in fig4 a pledget 22 is formed by placing an individual temperature change packet 10 on a first layer 24 of pledget material a second layer 26 of pledget material is then placed on the first layer 24 the pledget 22 is used to form a tampon with the temperature change packet 10 therein near the string end of the tampon in another embodiment of the present invention a moisture activated material is dispensed on top of and in the central area of a first layer 24 of pledget material a second.