The Benefits Of Exfoliating Your Vagina Area

I bet you never thought of seeing exfoliation and vagina in the same sentence, did you? Me either. But just to clarify, I’m not really talking about the actual vagina, but the skin around the vagina — the vagina suburbs (some may call it pubic hair area or bikini area). Since I’m interested in rejuvenating all of me, and since my vagina suburbs is part of “all of me” it needs to be included in the discussion — and it needs exfoliation.

Besides, we have to talk about these things, Chickies. I can not be the only one concerned about outer vagina skin, can I?

Let me preface this blog post by saying that I don’t particularly like talking about vaginas any more than I like talking about teeth, but, you know…I have one (a vagina, I have more than one tooth), so I’m going in.

Also, let’s just consider this blog post a bonus because it’s not backed by research like my usual posts, or it’s not something that I’m struggling with on an existential level — again, like my usual posts. It’s just one of those shower thoughts that I felt deserved a little further investigation — that sort of thing.

Also, after writing this blog post on Dr. Harold Lancer’s “The Method” about the rejuvenating benefits of daily exfoliation, which include removing the outermost layer of dead skin to reveal new skin, I started including my outer vagina skin in my routine simply because I include my vagina and her surroundings in the category of places on my body I would like to keep young.

Now, if I’m honest, I’ve only just started doing this regularly. In the past, I have exfoliated after shaving to avoid ingrown hairs, but I haven’t been regular about it at all. And I’m not concerned about ingrown hair as much as I am about that area looking not-so-youthful – if you know what I’m mean.

This is my theory: if we are to take the information described by in Dr. Lancer, and in the studies that show unequivocally that exfoliation helps the cells turn over, thus producing younger skin, then shouldn’t we also conclude that we must include the skin directly around the vagina as well?

If you really think about it, if scrubbing away at your face and body sloughs off the dead skin then why wouldn’t you do that to your vagina area?

I don’t want dead skin around my vagina. Do you?

I didn’t think so.

For now, it’s only a hypothesis but I thought I’d write about it anyway in case any of you want to include yourself in my non-clinical, non-scientific trial. Don’t freak out, you don’t have to show me yours, just report back on your own findings if you feel so inclined.

My hubby (the perv) said he’d help with the trial by performing daily observations  (of mine, not yours) in order for me to more accurately record my findings. I told him that I would take that into consideration (I have to keep him on his toes, people, we’ve been married a long time).

I’m so intrigued (terrified) about vagina skin that I even asked my bikini wax lady for her opinion, given that she sees a lot of vaginas on a daily basis — young and old and everything in between.

Well, guess what? She agrees with me. Ha!

As you get older that skin around that area loses its elasticity just like the rest of our skin does and no longer looks (edible?) springy. She says she’s seen some dead looking outer vagina skin — and she made a face while she said this to me too.

There but for the grace of God go I.

This situation has to be avoided at all costs. Luckily, if this works, you can keep your love area youthful for years to come.

So if you want to join the trial, you must do the following…

1. Wet the skin with warm water first.
2. Exfoliate the skin around your vagina and the crease of your inner thigh gently – the entire area on which hair grows. DO NOT EXFOLIATE THE INNER LABIA. Ouch!
   
3. Use a mild scrub or loofah.
4. Rinse with warm water and pat dry.
5. Follow up with a moisturizing lotion.
6. Do this daily for a month and see if you notice a difference in your own vagina suburbs.

Please feel free to take a before and after picture. You don’t need to show it to me, it’s for your purposes only. I may or may not have taken my own research pics. Shhh.

That’s it. Simple, right?

Although I wrote that I was going to take a break from exfoliating my face for fear of damaging my moisture barrier, I haven’t quite gotten around to it. In fact, I’m exfoliating every inch of my skin every day, and now I have included my vagina.

Anything for youth, Chickies.

Now you: Have you exfoliated down there? What do you think about my theory?

xoxo,

V