Filipinas experience extreme humidity whether indoors at home or outdoors especially during the rainy season. Humidity results in changes that bother most ladies– frizzier hair, acne-prone skin, and generally an ickier, stickier feeling throughout the day. What most women don’t share– humidity also contributes to the unpleasant feeling within their intimate areas. 

Here are some tips from Carefree ambassador Rei Germar that can help beat the kulob and icky feels throughout the day this rainy season:

  • Always have rainy-day essentials ready 

This includes having foldable umbrellas, raincoats, and even small towels to keep yourself dry from the rain. 

  • Use Carefree pantyliners to keep your intimate areas clean and fresh all day

Make sure to use some Carefree pantyliners throughout the day! Keep a couple of pieces in your essentials pouch so you can keep changing throughout the day in between activities.

There are different variants for different needs like Carefree Breathable for the clean, airy panty feeling all day, Carefree Super Dry to protect your panty from heavy daily discharge, and Carefree Healthy Fresh for superior odor-control. My personal favorite here is Carefree Breathable.

 

  • Touch up your look with makeup and some perfume

During the humid season, it is crucial for Filipinas to maintain their intimate areas clean and fresh. Dr. May Gonzaga, a gynecologist, suggests that women should pay more attention to personal hygiene and intimate areas to prevent infections. Increased heat, sweat, and wetness can lead to discomfort and the growth of abnormal bacteria, which can cause vulvar, vaginal, and urinary tract infections. To keep women clean and fresh, they should adopt good habits, maintain proper intimate hygiene, and use natural, thin, light, unscented, comfortable, cotton, hypoallergenic undergarments and pantyliners to keep them dry and minimize the buildup of bacteria and infections. This will help combat the icky feeling and promote a healthier lifestyle.

To avoid and minimize the building-up of the bad bacteria in the intimate area and thereby prevent possible infections & the discomfort that goes with it, Dr. Gonzaga also recommends that ladies should have a healthy lifestyle in general in terms of diet, exercises with emphasis to:

    1. Practicing a habit of good feminine “hygiene”

Wash and wipe always from front to back! Use water and mild soaps only, and washing the intimate area once to two times a day is adequate. Once you over-wash, you will wash away the good, healthy bacteria. And when this happens the ‘bad’ bacteria may colonize and give symptoms of unpleasant odors, discharge, and infections.

 

              2. Wear breathable clothes 

Using cotton, comfortable underwear instead of those synthetic fiber panties which can lead to irritation, itchiness, inflammation, and even infections. Avoid wearing tight clothes like tight undergarments, tight skinny jeans or tight pants, tight leggings which does not allow air to pass in your intimate area. Because our intimate area also needs to breathe. By allowing fresh air to pass through the area, it minimizes perspiration and gives one more comfort and is less prone to irritation and infections.

 

  • By using a natural, thin, light, unscented, comfortable, cotton, hypoallergenic pantyliners to keep the vulvar area clean and dry the whole day.

Changing every 3 to 5 hours a day depending on the day of cycle is recommended. This is to prevent vaginal irritations, itching, inflammation, infections and unpleasant odors and discharges from occurring.

Alex Burgos, brand manager, shares “As the leading pantyliner brand, Carefree believes that Filipinas should not be bothered and not be accustomed to the icky sensation within the vaginal area. We advocate for women to not only just be clean, but be Carefree clean.”

To know more about the #CarefreePantyLove Movement visit and follow our social media accounts at  https://www.facebook.com/CarefreePH/ and @carefee.ph on Instagram and TikTok. Carefree pantyliners are available in all leading supermarket and drugstore nationwide, as well as on our official company store in Shopee and Lazada