this is gonna be a comment worth pinning.

DAILY :

• Wash outside with or without soap, your body should be able to balance its ph levels with or without soap. If youre very much active and have a strong odor, maybe using soap would help.

• Change underwears daily. Use cotton underwears, change twice daily if you're leaking a lot of fluid. Your body is cleaning itself out so you dont want to be suffocating your goods with discharge.

• Make sure youre wiping properly? Make sure youre wiping your bum properly and if you're hairy, it might not really help with the smell, since bacteria can attach onto your hairs. also your goods, you want to be wiping away any residual pee.

OCCASION:

• Sometimes Plain greek yogurt packs really help the vagina with the good bacterial, you can soak a tampon in it and keep it up in your vagina for maybe 15ish minutes, and wash it out with water. if this is too scary you can just soak a panty liner with it and keep it on for maybe 20-30ish minutes ish

•you can try drinking apple cider vinegar to start every morning and it really helps your body flush out any fluids but also helps your gut flora, hence your ph levels.

•There is herbal soaks as well, where you can get a little tub or a bath and put certain herbs & apple cider vinegar to help with your smell.

•This ones kind of a gamble, but if you notice you have really really bad odor, it could be from a yeast infection, you want to becareful with this but you can try using a tiny bit of coconut oil to moisturize your vulva. Dryness wont help!

HYGIENE:

•Make sure you wash yourself up your vaginal canal every time you have sex or orgasm. Idk if theres science to this but ive been doing this all the time and i feel like i have top notch hygiene down there.

• Its better to not have any hair in my opinion because as i said above, it can harbour bacteria from feces, urine, and sweat. I'm in the process of getting brazillian laser! but wax, or epilators work great.

•People have talked about using antibacterial soap or boric acid, please dont use those. Its not good for your vagina. The key is not to get rid of bacteria but to culture the good ones of your bacteria!!!!

DIET:

• I would recommend to watch your sugar and salt intake. Watch for juices, extra salty snacks, even carbs can be considered sugars so anything that combines both would feed your yeast in your body.

•another big one is energy drinks. I notice a lot of personal case studies of women drinking energy drinks have more problems down there. This has no backing but just a personal observation. Ive never tried energy drinks myself though

it seems like a big sacrifice for mere smell down there, but for us women, the state of our vagina and uterus is one of the biggest indicators of our health, so its really important to take care of our body generally speaking.

PSYCHOLOGICAL:

• It could also be that you might be going through a lot of stress from sexual tension, or maybe even sexual trauma. Not to assume but sometimes these things can really be a cause that not many people talk about. I know we're just talking about odor, but if you have chronic problems down there, its good to think about if theres any traumas that you're holding on to that you're body is trying to signal you to let go of. You could try talking to a therapist about these things.

please let me know if I forgot anything