5 Research-Backed Vaginal Health Products You Won’t Hear About From TikTok Influencers
Skip the vagina spritz and try these promising new products for low libido, yeast infections, bacterial vaginosis, UTIs, and STD protection
Women are constantly bombarded with sketchy vaginal products. For decades, advertisers have made women believe their lady bits should smell like a “desert rose.”
These intimate care products can inhibit fertility with dangerous phthalates, parabens, and formaldehyde. They also disrupt delicate vaginal flora, which can cause bacterial infections, thereby making odors worse.
Unfortunately, intimate care products, such as douches, wipes, sprays, and spritzes, are not regulated by the FDA as medicine. They are only required to have FDA approval as cosmetics. Consequently, this crap is allowed to poison our bodies.
In contrast, products that are categorized as medicine must undergo rigorous testing. This testing doesn’t always make products 100% safe, but it does allow women to make more informed decisions on what they put inside their bodies.
The following research-backed products are the ones I will be watching this year.