HOW TO CLEAN PRIVATE PARTS FOR WOMAN

The vagina is designed to keep itself clean with the help of natural secretions (discharge). Find out how to help your vagina keep clean and healthy, and why you don't need douches or vaginal wipes.

You should wash your vulva with warm water. If you’d like, you can use a mild soap that won’t irritate the skin — but this isn’t necessary. You don’t have to use soap to wash your vulva.

It’s best to wash “front to back” — in other words, wash your vulva first and then your anus. Otherwise, bacteria from the anus can spread to your vagina, which can cause infections. You can wash your vulva in the same way while menstruating. If you’re concerned about potential odour, you may consider washing your vulva more than once a day.

The vagina is, in fact, self-cleaning in order to maintain pH (the acidity) levels. Because the vagina is fairly acidic compared to the rest of the body, you don’t need to detox … anything at all. There’s nothing in your reproductive tract that needs to be detoxed.

REMEMBER, THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH YOUR VAGINA

Many women develop insecurities about their vaginas because of stigmas and social constructs derived from period taboos and harmful advertisement rhetoric. “You really don’t need to be dousing your private parts in chemicals and spending your money on expensive products that serve no purpose other than to temporarily make you smell like bad perfume,” Karley Sciortino writes. Women should embrace their vaginas and trust in the biological processes that keep them clean and healthy.