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I Dunno Who Has To Hear This But You Don’t Need to Steam Your Vagina
Watching people steaming their vaginas on Tiktok is one of life’s little nuggets of weird and unusual. I dunno who needs to hear this but you don’t need to steam your vagina nor do you need to lighten it (I remember Huda, I remember…!). Believe me your vagina is doing just fine. Don’t bother her. She’s chilling, living her best life, and she totally knows how to take care of herself.
It’s so odd watching the evolution of a new platform like Tiktok because everything that’s old is new again. Makeup dupes, swatches, looks of the day, it’s stuff that was done ten plus years ago on blogs, stuff that made it’s way onto youTube and later onto Instagram and now here we are full circle and a lot of it is back to trending again on Tiktok. Tiktok literally sells things out faster than youTube did and certain products will just disappear off shelves as content creators promote it across Tiktok.
So, yeah, you know what that means right? There’s room for really harmful trends. I’ve seen this across a particular aspect of my life that I don’t discuss here and also, in beauty which I find disturbing. Interestingly enough Esteelaundry posted on Instagram today about vaginal steaming and I was instantly floored at how well the algo rhythm of the Internet works because prior to her even mentioning it I had been served up several vagina steaming videos on Tiktok this week and I had plans to write about it.
Before we can actually discuss vaginal steaming maybe we need to understand what vaginal steaming is and what the benefits are as well as what it claims it can do. Vaginal steaming involves sitting over a pot of steaming water that contains a mix of herbs. You’ll arrange a towel or a skirt over your legs and upper body creating a cocoon so the steam doesn’t escape and sit over the pot and allow to steam to rise and well, just go to work steaming your lady bits. In some cases, you can buy at home kits that fit over your toilet which can be filled with herbs as well as hot water and you can just sit right on your toilet to do your steaming. Vaginal steaming claims it can detox your womb and increase your fertility as well as improve energy and a bunch of other hocus pocus, magic, and wizardry (who knows? your vagina may take flight after it’s been steamed according to some reports!). I mean, they pretty much say you’ll be living a stress-free life if you sit over some steaming herbal water and let your vagina just breath it all in. You know at some point some fool out there is going to start injecting CBD into the herbal blend and claim how beneficial it is to your vagina. I can picture the marketing now: “It’ll make your vagina feel so chill and relaxed” One company on the Internet has a mix of roses and herbs because here we are again with the misconception that vaginas are weird, smelly, funky things that need to smell like roses, berries, and air freshener.
Dude, dude, dude…we’re all self cleaning. This isn’t a dry cleaner! We don’t have to steam it. It pretty much takes care of itself and steaming it can upset the balance of the pH levels down there. You wanna maintain that healthy pH by not mucking around too much with the balance of nature. Water is fine, a little soap, but you don’t need to buy into all these unusual trends telling you to sit over a pot of steaming scented water to make your vagina will work better and smell pretty.
You’re vagina is good trust me.
If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it.
Don’t be ashamed of your body or let others shame you. Vaginal steaming comes across as a weird way of saying, “you’re not clean enough! you’re not well enough!” I believe in a healthy life and living but I also don’t believe in taking that to extremes. Vaginal steaming is an extreme in my personal opinion.
