I imagine a Lysol feminine hygine product might be necessary for some women.
I’ve heard of this, and YEEEAAARRRRGGGHHHHHH!!!
That would be baking soda and vinegar, not water. Baking soda and vinegar down there would be… tingly, to say the least.
You’d think so, but Lysol’s history as a feminine hygiene product is well-documented:
1920s
Another from the '20s
1930s
Early 1940s (This one just beggars belief.)
Late 1940s
Douche ads have practically always been coyly frank. How else are you going to put it across?
:eek: Ewwwwwwwwwww!!! :eek: :eek:
I think the delicate flower of my womanhood just keeled over and died.
I suppose they recommended Raid® as a deodorant, too???
GT
The newspaper ads I can access on my database from the 1940’s are rather explicit in what they were suggesting a woman might need Lysol for.
This is from a 1945 ad in a newspaper
One hopes that the directions suggested diluting the stuff pretty heavily.
The ad clipping I was sent reads:
Coupon at the bottom for a free booklet on making your cooter less stanky with Lysol. :eek:
WOW! I’m stunned! I wonder what a contemporary doctor would say about this use? And, I’m curious about the dilution-ratio…
wow! I knew women who did this but I never knew thay Lysol advertised it. I always thought it was like using Coca Cola for a douche… something done but not necessarily reccomended.
I checked out an old Sears catalog from the library, oh, about 1902? (It was a reproduction).
There was one section for medical supplies, including douches, syringes, etc.
Don’t most doctors nowadays tell you NOT to douche? I’ve always been told it can cause infection.
See DeVena’s post above.
It was advertised as “feminine hygiene” because advertising contraceptives was illegal.
I have a bottle of Lysol in my kitchen. It certainly does not list douching as an intended use today.
I can tell you one thing, if it came down to a Lysol douche or a house full of screaming kids, my hooha would smell like a Doctor’s office.
The goggles…that is NOT a woman.
Lysol’ll get them back where they belong! Although getting the Lysol into your chest cavity is a little tricky at first…
Douching is a really, really bad idea.
It’s an ineffective contraceptive (you can actually wash more stuff UP there) and is likely to lead to all sorts of nastiness infection wise. Women NEED bacteria in heir vaginas to keep it healthy, like the “good bacteria” you need in your GI tract.
To be honest they reckon that most of the reason douching worked was by causing a mild endometritis (inflammation of the lining of the womb) so that nothing could implant.
(My bottle of TCP in the bathroom lists dilutions for home midwifery, but not for feminine hygiene, we don’t have Lysol here.)
Hell no! For undiluted use – and women were instructed to stick a lit lucifer up there immediately afterwards.
They built 'em tougher back then.
My bad. Never in a million years would I have reckoned this could have been anything other than an Onionesque attempt at merriment.
If there’s a Will, there’s a way.
Aside from the surprise that such a product would even be considered for such a purpose, what bowls me over more than anything else is the seeming openness in which such a relatively taboo was apparently discussed. Using magazine and newspaper advertisements isn’t necessarily targeting just a select audience in a reasonably discreet manner. The concept of Lysol in the hooha was pretty much out there for all age groups and genders to innocently come across and considering it’s for a 1930s to 1960s audience this openness surprises me greatly.
I love the line “So that’s why Dick has been so cool to me.” in that one. 
“Truly a modern miracle” indeed!
Imagine what the ads for Mr. Clean and Pine-Sol must have looked like.
Pine-Sol. Forest-fresh femininity.
ohmygod. Please tell me that is a twisted version of Photoshop and isn’t real…