MANILA, PHILIPPINES – 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:
1. Always have rainy-day essentials ready
This includes having foldable umbrellas, raincoats, and even small towels to keep yourself
dry from the rain.
2. 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.
3. Touch up your look with makeup and some perfume
A quick touch up on your look is such a mood booster! Knowing that I look my best
throughout the day also helps combat the icky feeling I get, especially when the weather is
gloomy.
Dr. May Gonzaga, gynecologist, also shares a few tips that can help Filipinas keep their intimate
area clean and fresh during this time of the year. Dr. Gonzaga notes “Humid season are the times
we should pay more attention to our personal hygiene and intimate areas because it makes
women more prone to infections. As anything that increases the retention of heat, sweat, and
wetness can lead to intimate discomforts and more importantly it can make the abnormal bacteria
flourish and thrive which can lead to vulvar, vaginal, and urinary tract infections, peculiar foul
smelling, and abnormal unwanted discharges from the intimate area. To keep us ladies clean and
fresh this humid season we should have good healthy habits, proper intimate hygiene and to use
natural, thin, light, unscented, comfortable, cotton, hypoallergenic undergarments and
pantyliners to keep us dry the whole day, and to minimize the building up of bacteria and
infections.”
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.
3. 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.
