‘Femfresh for intimate skin’. Why the hell don’t men get inundated with this crap?

I love a bit of femfresh in my shower routine! I have sensitive skin. I use aveeno as a shower gel and femfresh to give my bush a good scrub.

It is a cool gel type consistency so if you are feeling a bit hot or itchy it is delightful. I don't suffer with issues down there very often though, seems to be a healthy place overall.

I don't think it's a product I find particularly misogynistic tbh, when I compare it with the entire rest of the contents of superdrug?

From what I remember of my days as a junior doctor doing catheterisations, the average male patient seemed to cultivate a thick crop of smeg under his foreskin. Men are far worse soap dodgers than women!

This: even products claiming to be 'balanced' and especially designed for intimate cleaning cause problems. The vagina is a self-cleaning organ.

Because most men have more sense than to buy such crap?

There is!

MN are running a product test for below the belt:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_product_tests/3218031-Male-mumsnetter-Sign-up-to-take-part-in-Mumsnet-s-first-male-only-product-test-300-to-be-won-for-feedback

Specific to bicycle seats

I have never heard of a man doing such a thing either! Things are worse than I thought!

Have you ever heard of snarfing?

AmoraObscura said-

"I would rather be the target of marketing campaigns over my personal hygiene than have bits cut off because of it. Where FGM is obviously and rightly abhorred across the UK I still hear so many mothers defending the circumcision of their sons saying that it's got 'hygiene' reasons. Femfresh is the lesser of two evils."

DillyDillyDally said-

"FGS what does male circumcision have to do with this?"

Really DDD? I think amora obscurer explained it perfectly.

TammyWhyNot not if you have public hair, which I do as I refuse to do more than trim it as it wouldn’t be for me. If discharge has come out overnight and hardened then that soap really helps freshen up.

To me it’s all about comfort and options. Now I can agree without even seeing the advert that it is probably “oh yuck women have bodily fluids!” and get onboard with the outrage over the marketing strategy, but I can’t feel annoyed about the product existing.

A bit like make up. Is it anti-female to wear make up? I really maintain it is more anti-female to shame women for wearing make up.

Feminism isn’t to me about men and women being treated the same. But about them having equality. We have a long way to come, but I don’t think getting too irritated* about the availability of a ph balanced soap is going to help very much.

*physically and emotionally!

I've used it as showergel on occasion as I found normal soap and shower gel an irritant at times ( and yes I know you don't need to douche, I just mean irritant on external parts). I wouldn't be spraying owt like deodorant up there but the pH balance of femfresh showergel is more skin friendly I believe.

Do they need special products or just to be less lazy about washing themselves?

To be honest I reckon a lot of men need hygiene products for the under foreskin area and cleaning in that area generally based on the number of posts on MN from women about their smelly partners.

It's marketing based on misogny is what it is.

Women aren't supposed to use regular shower gels and soaps as more sensitive than a mans and are more prone to infection eg. thrush. Men can use any shower gel down there. That's why.

If that’s the case, why are “regular” products only suitable for 49% of the population? Why not make “regular” products suitable for everyone?

It’s just marketing, trying to flog you stuff. Humans quite literally survived millennia without special washes for vulvas.

Men sniffing chairs when a woman has got up is absolutely disgusting. Did you witness that? How did you not tear the dickhead a new one?

Madge the Vag knows

Women aren't supposed to use regular shower gels and soaps as more sensitive than a mans and are more prone to infection eg. thrush. Men can use any shower gel down there. That's why.

Personally I've never been innudated by such products, in fact I've simply ignored them and walked past leaving them unwanted on the shelf.

But £3.50 for 8 wipes??? These young men need directing to handy packs of baby wipes.

Behold! Wingman wipes for willies.

FGS what does male circumcision have to do with this?

I would rather be the target of marketing campaigns over my personal hygiene than have bits cut off because of it. Where FGM is obviously and rightly abhorred across the UK I still hear so many mothers defending the circumcision of their sons saying that it's got 'hygiene' reasons. Femfresh is the lesser of two evils.

I was actually really grateful for such a product today. I’m pregnant and not the type who has sex while pregnant - totally not in the mood! (Relevant I promise).

But I’ve had a different type of discharge down there and it was clingy and uncomfortable. I was quite glad to use something that promised to get down their fresh without irritation. This was for me and me alone.

I also used it as full shower gel for Dd for a while as she was gaining her independence in the shower as she didn’t understand/process properly that putting normal soap down there could cause irritation to start with.