My vagina stinks

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I can't live with it anymore, it smells horrible even 2 minutes after showering. I don't use soap down there and I don't have an STI. I have been treated for thrush and no change.

It's worse in the hot weather but I'm feeling self conscious all the time. I can smell it when I'm sitting down on the sofa. People say it's normal to have an odour but when does it become abnormal?

I can't even describe the smell - it isn't fishy but it's unpleasant

Yes rinse- again the vulva. Please do not irrigate your vagina 😬

Washing your vulva only with the plainest soap. Very gently. Something gentle like dove

That’s it. You don’t need to wash with anything else.

@hamsterchump

You shouldn’t be putting soap anywhere near your ear?!?

It’s when people put cotton buds down there

What you’re actually doing is pushing the wax further down. Which causes more problems

Leave your ears alone people too

Christ. I get thrush if I so much think about putting soap down there. Water only for me (soap for bum of course!)

Unabashedly your vagina does not need washing. Your vulva does.

@Hoggleludo I know not to put anything in the ear canal obviously, read my post again, but surely you wash the outer part of your ear that sticks out of your head? This thread is a revelation, so many soap dodgers!

Client Simple soap is good if you are prone to thrush from perfumey stuff. Sanex is good too. Water alone will not remove sweat etc.

Your VAGINA is self cleaning, Your VULVA is not

Look I don't know about the rest of you but maybe I'm of a generation where we don't fiddle around down there working out which every bit is what. That is why we call the whole thing a single word.

Sweat definitely smells. Skinny jeans paired with teeny tiny tight lingerie are the devil, especially g-strings

This thread is a revelation, so many soap dodgers!

Just thinking the same! And then also wondering why I am spending time trying to persuade grubby people that they should wash their vulva. I thought people knew this stuff.

As long as they keep their meaty smell well away from me it's their lookout I guess.

Look I don't know about the rest of you but maybe I'm of a generation where we don't fiddle around down there working out which every bit is what. That is why we call the whole thing a single word

FFS. Pathetic.

@BubblyBarbara sorry but I don't think your age is any excuse to not know what parts of your anatomy are called what (unless you're a small child). It's ignorance, not age.

HavenDilemma thankyou for agreeing with me. The VAGINA is self cleaning. The VULVA, perineum, anus, mons pubis and labia are NOT selfcleaning. They require cleaning properly. With soap.

@UnabashedlyNeurodifferent I think your talking about vulva again not vagina u less u mean squirt water from the shower up inside your vaginal opening..

can someone just draw a diagram please

@Hoggleludo inside their vagina, with soap? I must read the thread back as I don't think anyone has suggested it's a good idea to stick soap up their vagina.

Always women's anatomy too. I bet Bubbly doesn't refer to penis, balls, perinuem etc as just the one word - penis - and then expect everyone to know what she means.

I had assumed the smell left in toilets by other women was from strong wee rather than strong hoofs, but have definitely smelled it. Was gagging one time thinking the poor woman before me must have had some kind of awful wee infection, before realising they’d actually been liberally spraying Lynx Africa

Unabashedly said you should rinse your vagina. Please don't! Douching really is bad for your vagina.

As always, I'm saddened and astounded at how many women don't know the difference between their vulva and vagina. And is it any wonder when people call the whole genital area their flooff, poppy, flower, twinkle etc. Jesus Christ on a bike, ladies!

Our vagina has its own cleaning system. Very much like our ear.

Our vaginas yes, but not our vulva. Our inner ear yes, but not our outer ear. If you don't wash the folds of skin that form the vulva with a cleanser, it will smell of sweat and urine.

TinklyLittleLaugh the end of your husband's knob is NOT the eqivalent of the vulva. It is the equivalent of the tip of the clitoris. The vulva is more akin the the area under his foreskin where smegma can build up. And we all know how rank that would be if not washed properly

@MissBax well from now on I’m calling it my ‘fine china seashell’. (I do agree with you though)

@MissBax it's astounding isn't it. Can you imagine some of these people trying to explain an issue to their doctor when they don't even know the words for different parts.

"Doctor I have an itchy vagina" Doctor thinks thrush possibly. When actually it's their moms pubis that's itching and it's eczema. Meanwhile lady at home is happily smearing caneston on their pubes.

Mons*

I also don't bother fiddling around trying to find the right word for body parts. Is that my arse? Or is it my elbow? Away with such trivial technicalities.

Anyway, I'm off to wash my vagine with meat scented public hair while singing happy birthday for 20 seconds.