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[palegothic.livejournal.com]

Ok, I have a question. I have been reading a lot the past week or so that it's not good to use soap on your girly bits. Then I read that it's ok on the labia. So I am guessing that it's cool to wash the exterior but not to try and shove soap inside the canal correct? Or am I missing something? I also want to add that I don't use the same soap for my body as my girly bits. I use Aveeno Unsented bodywash for my neather region.

x-posted to vaginapagina

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[stratyllis.livejournal.com]

Definetly bad to shove soap up into your vaginal canal. But the outside is okay IMHO.

[palegothic.livejournal.com]

That's what I have been doing, I just wanted to make sure what with all the posts I have been reading saying washing with anything but water down there was bad. Guess they should have clarified for me heh :)

Thanks :)

[erinmdmd.livejournal.com]

There is a delicate balance of bacteria in your vagina that maintains a yeast population. Using harsh anti-bacterial soup can kill good bacteria, causing yeast to grow unchecked- leaving you suffering from a yeast infection.

[palegothic.livejournal.com]

Yup, I don't even use anti-bacterial on my hands (which is really hard to find nowadays!).

[erinmdmd.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know... I've had luck with natural food stores. Luckily I haven't hada yeast infection ever, so hopefully it'll stay that way :-p

[ladieophilia.livejournal.com]

It is really easy to change that by taking the left over slivers from yout bar soaps and put them at the bottom of an pump despenser and add water. They disolve into the water and make a nice liquid soap that you know is okay and you don't sit there wondering what to do with your little bits of soap. Every time you get down to that nub, put it into a bag or top of your pump! Also if you can find glycerine I find that adding glycerine to water with a bit of essential oil (or use home made rose water!) make a great liquid soap that doesn't dry out your hands. Add some dry milk and cooked oats and you have a great body wash that exfoliates as well. If you have kids or like kids, glycerine is a great thing to have on hand because adding just a little bit of sugar and glycerine to watered down dich soap makes the BEST bubble mixture!

[leahpia77.livejournal.com]

The detergents in most soaps are very irritating, and if your vagina is sensitive, you don't want to suffer the consequences of that action.

I use "intimate cleansers" to wash, but natural food stores to find soaps (like vegetable-based castille) would probably be a good idea as well.

[yolen.livejournal.com]

This is one of the reasons why I've been using only natural handmade soaps for several years now.

[ladieophilia.livejournal.com]

I find that soaps with Laurryl Acetate (sp?) in them really agrivate those areas and dry out my skin so that is something to be wary of. But I use oatmeal or glycerine soaps on my labia all the time. I know that a lot of girls might sit there and tell me no, but if I am ichy, I lather up good down there and clean it all. As long as I rinse well and don't do it every day then the itch goes away completely (that is if it is not bacterial). I think that it is because soaps made without lye or Laurryl Acetate in them are fairly Ph balanced and don't throw that area into wack. It just gets rid of the extra mucus build up and allows for more liquids to replace and flush.
(PS for those that go to Costco I found some of the best glycerine soaps there! They are called California Scents and they actually smell like fresh fruit but they aren't over powering on your own skin. Just enough that your shower smells wonderful but you don't smell like you bathed in parfume. They are wonderfully mild and don't dry up my skin, which is hard because I live in a very low humidity place! The strawberry is my favorite!)

[babybloodheart.livejournal.com]

Soap shouldn't go where the mucosa is, so that’s no soap or chemicals inside your cunt - it risks irritation, harmful chemicals getting into your system (your skin helps prevent this, but the mucosa has no keratinized squamous epithelium so it absorbs harmful chemicals in soaps etc. easier), and of course the PH of the soap can effect the PH of your cunt and cause infection.
The pubic area is ok, but still soap is totally unnecessary.

[lileprechaun.livejournal.com]

I use soap, but I can only use certain ones. I remember one time I picked up a bottle of Dove Unscented body wash which ended up giving me the itchies. When I looked at the ingredients 'fragrance' was listed as one. Tell me, how can something be unscented and have fragrance in it? Anyway I don't feel as clean when I just use water so I started looking into organic soaps. I was using Dr. Bronner's (http://www.drbronner.com/main.html) (which I absolutely love and still use a body wash), which is a castile, but I recently bought
this bar soap (http://www.cardenfarmssoap.com/images/clearandclean.jpg) at a home show that I use specifically for washing down there. It's glycerin, contains no scent/fragrances or dyes and it's really gentle. I'd say it's the best one I've found yet.

[silvertipwings.livejournal.com]

You really shouldn't feel the need to manually clean your vagina... your body does that for you :)
I've been using a very mild natural lavender soap that I love and it's never given me any problems.