Bleached Gusset - Sorry

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Sorry for the G word in the title

My vagina is bleaching my knickers! Just wondering if anyone else has this problem?

I know it is likely to be something to do with the ph but I'm otherwise healthy down there.

Wearing panty liners all day every day seems to go against the point of cotton knickers. But all my coloured pants have this bleached appearance in the crotch. I'm too embarrassed to hang them on the line or over the radiators.

Is there anything I can do?

I can't believe I have typed half of these words let alone that I'm going to post them on the net . Please work name change.

How would a panty liner cover up the problem though, unless you stuck it on the outside?

I bleach my gussets when on my period, I always though it was down to that too. I now have special knackered knickers I only wear at that time. There rest of my knicker drawer are fine.

I've usually chucked my knickers away once they start having this and as they have a lined gusset, it marks on the inside first. I didn't think about it going all the way through!

Don't have a bleaching problem but...I left a pair of crusty knickers on my bedroom floor and came in to find a fly feasting on them. .

You didn't want of k ow that did you?
Everything is in a 60 degree wash now.

I have never had this. Do I have some kind of super alkaline vagina?

Wearing panty liners every day wouldn't really be more environmentally friendly - think of the land fill.

Maybe taking probiotics would be helpful for this problem.

It's the ammonia in urine. I also learned this on Mumsnet!

Yes happens to me, more so now I'm pregnant.

yup. it's drops of wee that do this.

Thanks all.

Those saying it is urine, it isn't. Maybe you have a different problem but for me it is definitely to do with the ph of vaginal secretions. It's in the wrong place for urine for a start!

I'm glad to see it's quite normal and after doing a little more research
googling I can see it's nothing to worry about and just part of being female.

Mine is also the wrong place for urine and definitely discharge related.

I wear black knickers usually, and they don't get bleached. Not an odd stealth boast I promise! Could it mean something there isn't healthy? Or do I just have very good dyes in my pants?

Gator its probably your pants. I have a mix of brands and some never bleach, and others bleach almost from the first wear. I throw them away if the bleaching shows through to the outside, which sometimes it does where the little gusset bit is very small and/or the pants tend to slip backwards on me so the gusset is not in the bleachy place.

Could it be because we wear our crappy pants when period is due so it seems like only certain pants, but it's psychological because we don't wear our good pants?

I may be over thinking this.
incoming spreadsheet

It's urine- as PP says it's the ammonia in it.
No matter how much you pat yourself dry after a wee there will always be a tiny bit there and it will bleach your knickers.
We used to wear dark green knickers for school uniform and the gussets always eventually turned a horrid yellow shade- bleached.

I have a probiotic drink every day which has stopped this happening. How economical not

Is it dependent on thd material rather than the type of dye?

I remember tye dying things withbleach as a teen and some materials took ages to be affected

I'm going to be a bit graphic now so brace yourselves.

When the odd bit of wee has leaked out (ha! Odd bit every time I sneeze or cough these days ) the wee goes onto said undercrackers at the front, centre.
When totm is early or spotting happens it is underneath in the undercarriage area.
My bleached bit happens in the undercarriage area, in line with spotting as opposed to front centre in line with piss leakage iyswim

Well all my gussets are cotton .

I get this with black pants.

I remember watching a Friday night chat show - maybe Graeme norton - and some utter bellend in the audience brought in a pair of his ex girlfriend's knickers for everyone to giggle over. They were black and a bit broken down where the bleaching had happened. The camera did a big close up and how everyone laughed.

I remember squirming with mortification for the poor woman.

I wondered if it had anything to do with different washing powders - I have found persil tended to stick to some stains in the past (one of their many changing 'formulations' ) and wondered if this may cause some stains to bleach more than others.

Hmm. Maybe. I use non bio now and the bleaching seems less, I had put it down to different pants but maybe the bio powders are a factor?

I would have thought it would more likely to be bleachy non bio powders, and these bleach at higher temperatures, but maybe modern low temperature stain removers do it too.

The persil, in one of its incarnations, used to stick to dribble marks on DS's clothes and then not wash off. If the washing powder sticks selectively to the sticky body fluid type stains during the washing process, the powder will concentrate on that area, and if it is particularly bleachy it will lighten it in that patch over time.

That is just my theory - no proof. I don't use that particular powder any more. My usual problem is the M&S knickers are thin and fall to bits too quickly.

I use Ecover, it doesn't have bleaching agents. Also bleaching agents bleach all over, whereas the enzymes in bio powder are attracted to proteins like those in yr knick knacks. So it could hold up as a theory.

Ok, well Debenhams own brand black cotton knickers have never let me down in that area if anyone else wants to try them out (They do run a bit big in size though, best to buy a size smaller than you think you need.)