Balance activ every night and femfresh.

Yep, it's fine to scrub your crotch and bum with a gentlish shower gel or soap, but around your actual vulva, you should only use water or aqueous cream.

You can get some very gentle, natural bars of soap, or Vagisil, Canefresh and Soft & Gentle all do 'feminine' intimate washes that are meant to be gentler than standard shower gels. I also like the Sanex Zero products and you can get other products aimed at people with skin conditions.

I could be wrong but does Femfresh not have a little perfume in it?
I use only two products down below, either Sanex Zero or a gentle wash meant for babies, I reckon if it is mild enough for newborn skin it won't harm me at all.
 What I do not do is put any kind of cleanser inside, I douche my rear end but not my vagina. After washing I smooth lightly perfumed oil or lotion at the top of my legs and on my bum.

Femfresh has sodium laureth sulfate in it, just like any other shower gel. That's why it bubbles up. SLS is a detergent. It's primary purpose is to make water more wet by breaking down the ionic surface tension of water so that ingredients can reach the surface being cleaned more easily and rinse away more easily. Detergents can be useful for breaking down proteins and fats in cells, if that's what you want to do... but it means that it is irritating to mucous membranes.

I don't allow detergents to touch my mucous membranes, which means that I don't let it on my vagina or inner labia. It's fine for my outer crotch area and bum area.

I think Femfresh is a misleading product that encourages consumers to think that it can be used inside the vulva.

You don't need to use soap on the vulva. At most a bit of water to rinse away lube, the latex taste of the last condom, etc. But any odor produced by the body is caused by bacteria and washing that with soap will only set up an unbalance of the good to bad bacteria.

It's just called aqueous cream,that's it's name.Loads of different makes of it but it will say Aqueous cream on the tub.You can pick up a big tub of it for around ?2 or less.

That's all I use if I feel the need. You can also get it when you go for your screenings. Generally you should avoid using anything especially perfumed products.

If I'm worried thrush is coming on I use multi gyn gel which is brilliant.

Femfresh has sodium laureth sulfate in it, just like any other shower gel. That's why it bubbles up. SLS is a detergent. It's primary purpose is to make water more wet by breaking down the ionic surface tension of water so that ingredients can reach the surface being cleaned more easily and rinse away more easily. Detergents can be useful for breaking down proteins and fats in cells, if that's what you want to do... but it means that it is irritating to mucous membranes.

What Fabulassie said.

However, If you don't "feel" clean without washing with something, the green clear simple face wash uses a gentler one called Cocamidopropyl Betaine, and also is unscented.

Femfresh is perfumed isn't it? I've never used it because I think it would just mask any smells... I remember it used to be quite expensive but it now appears in all the pound shops 


I just use simple soap, not perfumed not coloured just gentle and kind for delicate bits