Take care of down there

Every second person has one, but for some reason most of us are too embarrassed to talk about our vaginas. We’ve given them so many aliases – lady garden, noony, minnie moo – we’re surprised they haven’t gone through some sort of identity crisis. This lack of intimate chat about our “vaginas” (said in the sitcom Miranda’s mouthed whisper, of course!) may be doing them harm, as we’re just not giving them the care and attention they need. So we’re here to talk about them loud and proud, and reveal exactly what you need to be doing to take care down there.

A fine balance

It’s vital for our sex lives, childbirth and menstrual cycles. And like other fragile areas of our bodies, the vagina needs gentle, but regular care. “Women have incredible skincare regimes for their faces and core parts of their body, but they rarely have the same in place for their intimate