These unspoken underwear rules can have an impact on your vaginal health — and, depending on the style, can even affect your mood! So we did a lot of research, dug through several underwear hygiene studies, and talked to an OB-GYN to collect eight underwear rules to live by. And the most simple, gentle fabric to touch your skin? Yep, cotton. Instead, they trap heat and moisture, creating a perfect breeding ground for yeast infections. It seems like we typically wear one pair of underwear a day and then put it in the laundry to be washed. That may not always be necessary.

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By Amanda Bell. Comfort is king, so it should come as no surprise that athleisure wear is all the rage right now. Leggings and yoga pants in particular have become sheer staples of millennial fashion. One question remains: What are they doing to your crotch? Some have suggested that the constrictive nature of the clothing items might be problematic for the female bod, linking the garments to everything from folliculitis to ringworm to bacterial vaginosis and even muscle atrophy. Before you go off and burn your prized collection of comfy pants, though, consider what experts had to say about the matter. Jen Gunter told The Post that the theory being floated that leggings could cause an increase in bacterial vaginosis or yeast infections is false, plain and simple. Yeast infections and bacterial vaginosis are due to your normal, healthy bacteria not keeping yeast or other bacteria under control. Marsha K. In fact, she points out the fact that many athletic wear designers are now trending toward making more breathable designs.
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After a few minutes on the treadmill or rower, those beads of moisture start gathering on your forehead and slowly begin the decent down your face, neck and into the crevice between your boobs. It always happens to me the moment I start squatting after a run. You have, in my experience, a two hour grace period between the sweat commencing and the stench setting in, to get those clothes off and to get into a shower. Any longer and you will start to disgust yourself and anyone else in the vicinity.
Especially if the winter, when we wear so many layers of clothes made of different materials. Of course, we all have our own tried-and-true underwear preferences that work for us — and since no two vaginas are the same, it's possible that although lace irritates the crap out of my downstairs, it may be perfectly OK for you to rock lace panties on the regular. Additionally, even the "right" underwear can cause some serious health problems if they're too tight or too wet. Read on to learn about the ways your undies affect your vaginal health. As we are sure you know, the skin around your vaginal area is thinner and thus more sensitive than the rest of your skin.