To ask how you wash your 'bits'

[NotTheBelleoftheBall]

I'm not using the word 'bits' as some vague twee-ery to describe my vulva, I mean, everything under your knickers.

But I've got to 38 years old and suddenly wonder if the way I do it is the established norm (spurred on by recently hearing about douches and various online comments about how soap should never do much as touch your undercarriage).

For me: I always shower (bath about one a year), wet whole area (externally) wash external area with mild soap (including mons pubis, groins and bum crack), then using hand held part of shower rinse including rinsing inside a bit (vulva not vagina). So although I don't actively soap my vulva I use mildly soapy water to cleanse it. Then rinse well.

So far it's worked for me, my 'bits' are not prone to infection, but am I doing it all wrong? Should I be avoiding any water/vulva contact at all?

I generally get the window cleaner to do it. He's got all the right equipment 😉😉😉😉

The water pistol variety, ovbs.

Not the foam bullet type. I suspect those bastards would take the clit right off you. Major ouchies.

every few months I have a pain killing/steriod injection, access via my butt crack, its all very 'leave any shred of dignity at the door' while you lie face down bum in the air, every time in my nervousness I say something about having a good scrub all around with ajax and a loo brush or bleach and a loofah ..

I'm so taking notes for the next time I go, this thread is fab

I crouch over a hand crafted ceramic pot decorated with images of fertility goddess. The pot contains 698 mls of spring water infused with selection of herbs and aromatic oils which I select on a daily basis depending upon my mucus and the lunar cycle. The infusion is then gently heated over a small bonfire of hazel twigs until it is producing the same amount of steam as the morning sun draws out of the dew on the sacred mountain of Vulva in Mid July.
I then adopt the happy baby yoga position until my womanhood is dried by a flock of hummingbirds beating their wings.
It has made a huge difference to my sense of being a complete woman.

I know of other women who have washed the bacteria out of their vaginas due to certain perfumed soap I think?

And your suppose to mostly use just plain water but I think most people use a bit of soap.

Basically suggesting I love my own sexual organs. I mean, they've been very useful, but to LOVE them might be going a bit 'vagina monologues

But my sexual organs are awesome. We wouldn't have DD without them... Plus, orgasms. Why wouldn't I love them?

Questions like this used to be totally normal on here (as in slightly embarrassing to ask people you know but interesting to see the variations when it's a big anonymous audience) but you'll just get the 'I'm hilarious, me' answers from the newer people that think they look like clever, world weary old timers when they overreact with heavy handed suspicion.

Gentle body wash and water here by the way, shower gel before that but skin more sensitive in 40's - also making the 'you've got to 38 ok' comments a bit irrelevant.

With soap, shock horror. Not like inside my vag, but the rest.
And wet wipes on the days when I'm less able.

I like original source mint though. It's just tingly - I don't think it burns in the way I've seen described

I crouch over a hand crafted ceramic pot decorated with images of fertility goddess. The pot contains 698 mls of spring water infused with selection of herbs and aromatic oils which I select on a daily basis depending upon my mucus and the lunar cycle. The infusion is then gently heated over a small bonfire of hazel twigs until it is producing the same amount of steam as the morning sun draws out of the dew on the sacred mountain of Vulva in Mid July.
I then adopt the happy baby yoga position until my womanhood is dried by a flock of hummingbirds beating their wings.
It has made a huge difference to my sense of being a complete woman.*

Hi Gwyneth

Ick.

I do the same as you op.
I'm thinking folk are being a bit mean on this thread. We ask all sorts of questions on forums that may seem obvious to others.
I read the thread with interest because I'm prone to thrush etc and wondered the same myself.

Anyhow, to answer your question, OP.

Soap and water outside, rinse.
Water inside.

I do dry myself.

A bit of Mr Muscle brings it up lovely!

My general skin is really finicky with what soap I can use, allergic reactions-a plenty. My 'bits' are much less fussy. Weird.

Just advanced-search for that thread you mention OP. Was it the tea-tree douche thread? That did make me cross my legs. I've used a tea-tree shampoo on my scalp, and i really wouldn't care for that - ah, astringent effect anywhere near my bits !

at some of your other replies here.

Apparently a lot of people have forgotten how to just not click on things they're not interested in. at the lighthearted replies but those being snarky, well done you for being thoroughly above the thread and superior to all those of us who might find it useful.

Fwiw OP I thought this would be a helpful thread- my DD is having a few issues atm and I thought there might be a few tips that I either do so automatically I've forgotten to teach her, or things I don't do which might help her. Drying thoroughly after a bath is one of the former, so thank you.

this is obviously a perv wanking away behind the screen-worded question in a serious way to get more replies but love some of the replies! probably not what they were looking for!!

There are a lot of people here recently who would be better off elsewhere.

Was going to add, how do people wash their bits if they have a fixed shower head

Actually I would like to know the answer to this one plug the hole up in the shower so you get a few inches of water then sit and swish?

I use shower gel. Apparently my bits are in grave danger from doing that but they seem fine to me so I'll carry on.

Would someone seriously post this? maybe I am mistaken but it's a bit to personal and weird for my liking.

My gynaecologist always says 'add nothing the the bath but yourself'. Wise advice.

Would someone seriously post this? maybe I am mistaken but it's a bit to personal and weird for my liking.

Yes. It's not an uncommon topic as lots of women find things like this hard to discuss in real life. It's a lot more anonymous, especially now when people don't bother to give themselves a user name at all.

hahahahahahahahaha laughing so much.

It's not an uncommon topic as lots of women find things like this hard to discuss in real life

Or no need to discuss at all.