Homemade Soap For Your Private Parts
Washing with regular soap is out of the question when it comes to your private parts. Your intimate hygiene requires special care.
In this article you will find some simple and effective recipes for making your own soap from natural ingredients to prevent infections, itching and other discomforts and to help you keep your most intimate parts clean and healthy.
Reasons why you should avoid regular soap
Many women wash their vaginas with the same soap they use for the rest of their bodies. However, this is a real no go. A healthy vagina has a pH of about 5.2. The skin around the vagina is therefore more acidic than the skin on the rest of your body, where the pH value is around 7.
It is important to balance the acidity of the vagina. This protects this sensitive area against infections. Since regular soap has a pH of 7, washing your vagina with such soap can interfere with acidity.
Therefore, it is better to use a soap specially made for washing the vagina. A product with emollient ingredients can help rebalance the skin’s pH levels and prevent infections in sensitive people.
Below is a simple soap recipe that uses green tea essential oil and other natural ingredients that can help prevent yeast infections.
Ingredients and other supplies
- 210 ml coconut oil
- 30 grams sodium hydroxide
- 65ml distilled water
- Green tea based essential oil
- Essential thyme oil
- Soap mold, anything but aluminum
- Gloves
- a whisk
- A bowl for mixing and heating
- A glass holder
- A long-handled spoon for mixing
Preparation
Follow this recipe and the safety and quality measures carefully.
- Put on the gloves.
- Put the sodium hydroxide in the glass container first, then slowly add the distilled water to avoid spilling. When these two ingredients are mixed, vapor will be released. Let cool in the refrigerator until the mixture is clear. It would be best to make this mixture next to an open window or in a room with good ventilation.
- Put the coconut oil in the bowl and heat in a bain marie over low heat. When the oil reaches a temperature of about 40 degrees Celsius, you can remove it from the heat. Carefully add the mixture of sodium hydroxide and water while stirring with a whisk until it has a gel-like structure. Try not to spill.
- Then immediately add 15 drops of the essential oil based on green tea and 30 drops of essential thyme oil.
- Then pour this mixture into the soap mold.
- Cover the mold with a towel to allow the mixture to maintain its temperature and complete the soap making process. Let the mixture cool in the mold for 12 to 24 hours without moving or moving it.
- When the soap has cooled completely, you can remove it from the mold.
- Store the soap in a dry, cool place to allow it to harden completely. This will take about a month.
Tips to take care of your intimate parts
If you’ve suffered from yeast infections before, the following tips can help you keep your intimate area healthy.
- Wear underwear made from natural materials, such as cotton.
- After washing, you can protect and moisturize the area around your vagina by applying a marigold ointment or marigold oil extract with a clean cotton ball. Marigold has antibiotic properties and contains natural fungicides, which can help prevent vaginal infections.
- If you think you may have a vaginal infection, try putting a few drops of green tea oil on your panty liner first. When the area around the vagina warms naturally, the healing and disinfecting properties of the oil will begin to work.
- Wash the vagina only with wipes specifically made for this area.
- Avoid regular soaps and stick to products made from natural and organic ingredients.
- So remember that your vaginal health is directly related to the health of your digestive system.
- One natural remedy you can try to keep this intimate area clean is equal parts yogurt and salt water. Use this as an enema.
- Include foods in your daily diet that help prevent infections, such as yogurt, kefir or garlic.
