To be a bit [hmm] as to why a bottle of dettol has instructions on how to douche?

[rainydaysarebad]

Bought a bottle to treat cuts and scratches and found instructions on how much to mix with water to douche with. It is widely known that douching is bad for you, and messes with the pH of your vagina. Wth would a bottle of dettol give you instructions to do it? I mean I dont see how shoving dettol up there would treat you for any problems. Isn't it a bit irresponsible isn't it? Or maybe not? Intrigued.

[GetOrfMoiRing]

Christ why would you put it up there?

[OneOfMyTurnsComingOn]

Ouch!

[rainydaysarebad]

I don't know GetOrf! That's why I was a bit . Maybe it's a secret thing many women do? I don't know!

[JumpingThroughHoops]

I feel the need to share with you!


The practice of douching is now largely restricted to the United States, where douching equipment is often available in pharmacies. A 1995 survey quoted in the University of Rochester study found that 27% of U.S. women age 15 to 44 douched regularly, but that douching was more common among African-American women (over 50%) than among white women (21%).[3]

and

Vaginal douches may consist of water, water mixed with vinegar, or even antiseptic chemicals

[rainydaysarebad]

Thanks jumping. I wonder why women would want to clean themselves up there and why would such a big company continue to write instructions on the bottle.

[AmberLeaf]

Was it a foreign bottle? I've never noticed that before!

I love Dettol. I used to be partial to 2 capfuls in my bath but I've never squirted it up there!

[PeshwariNaan]

Women between the world wars used to douche with Lysol/ Dettol as a contraceptive method. The habit hung on too long after proper contraception was invented.

[StealthPolarBear]

Can someone please explain douchibg? Do you just put it on a flannel and sort of push it up?
I too like dettol but thats making my eyes water. What do they think it achieves?

[Halbanoo]

Calling bull on those statistics re: douching in the US.

American here and I don't know of anyone who douches anymore. I suspect it's a bit "old school" and probably something only women of a certain generation do anymore (if their gynos haven't told them otherwise...)

I remember my mother buying the kits when I was a child (I was always rummaging through the bathroom cupboards...) The boxed kit had a bottle with some florally decor, woman looking pensive, and a bottle that had a vinegar solution that you somehow squeezed northward...and it would somehow drizzle out, I suppose.

[rainydaysarebad]

Don't think it is a foreign bottle. Dh got it from our local Co-Op.

I'm not sure how women douche, but I think they squirt stuff up there and use a brush (might be wrong).

[somedayma]

a brush?! :o

[somedayma]

oh that was supposed to be a shocked face. I definitely wouldn't grin at the thought of brushing my hoo ha

[MardySkimpyBeachVolleyballBra]

I've noticed DD's teenage friends using "douche" and "douchebag" as an insult on Facebook. Bloody americanisms. I should defriend them. They only want me because FB is a numbers game/popularity contest, I'm sure.

[squoosh]

I remember reading once (in Marie Claire I think) that douching with Dettol is common practice in some African countries as a dry vagina is seen as more desirable by men. Creates more friction during sex or something.. I think.

Sounds horrific.

[Alaro]

squoosh OOWWWWWW

[MardySkimpyBeachVolleyballBra]

Amber You put it in your bath? I hate the smell of Dettol. It always reminds me of when I was sick as a child and my mum used to use it to disinfect the loo/bucket afterwards.

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

Not a brush I don't think.
I remember many (20+) years ago reading a book by Britt Ekland and she advocating using a douche (but not with Dettol) after AF and after sex.

Seems quite common practise on the continent.

There was a photo- seemed like a mahoosive syringe thing with a plunger and a tube.

[FalseStartered]

like a chimney sweep for fannies?

[JumpingThroughHoops]

A douche is like a ball with a tube, similar to a blood pressure squeezy thing. fill it up, squirt it up.

Originally it was used to erm clean out menstrual blood

[oldraver]

A brush I've got visions of one of those small mop head-a-like things you used to get for dishwashing

[StealthPolarBear]

"a dry vagina is seen as more desirable by men. Creates more friction during sex "
wonder what's in it for the woman

clean out menstrual blood? Mine falls out nicely on its very own.

[ItsAllGoingToBeFine]

Isn't it just like an enema for your vag? and just as pointless/potentially harmful

[SchrodingersMew]

I have done it as a teen after AF as I felt unclean. I used the shower though and took shower attatchment off so it was just the hose...

Have also bum douched after being ill.

[SchrodingersMew]

It'sAll Yes, you are correct.

[Subarashii]

Snuck at "woman looking pensive" :o