Abstract: A plastic bag for personal-hygiene articles, in particular for a stack of flexible pads, comprising a sheet-plastic tube forming an essentially cylindrical bag wall, both ends of said bag are initially closed, a suspension string located at one end and at the opposite end of said bag a frangible ring providing an opening allowing pads to be removed, the closure at the first one end being formed by a linear seam running between two diametrically opposite points on the cylindrical wall of the bag and passing through the longitudinal axis of the bag, the suspension string passing through the interior of the bag below the seam.