See more douche and deodorant ads.
See more douche apparatus: Germany (1933, as Hitler was coming to power), Australia, an
American
book promoting the practice, and instructional material for an American company
that sold douche equipment and menstrual cups at Tupperware-like parties in women's houses!
See an American douche set, Mon Docteur (My Doctor in French), with instructions and booklets, from about 1929.
See also Australian douche ad (ca. 1900) - Fresca douche powder (U.S.A.) (date ?) - Kotique douche liquid ad, 1974 (U.S.A.) - Liasan (1) genital wash ad, 1980s (Germany) - Liasan (2) genital wash ad, 1980s (Germany) - Lysol douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) - Lysol douche liquid ad, 1948 (U.S.A.) - Marvel douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) - Midol menstrual pain pill ad, 1938 (U.S.A.) - Midol booklet (selections), 1959 (U.S.A.) - Mum deodorant cream ad, 1926 (U.S.A.) - Myzone menstrual pain pill, 1952 (Australia) - Pristeen genital spray ad, 1969 (U.S.A.) - Spalt pain tablets, 1936 (Germany) - Sterizol douche liquid ad, 1926 (U.S.A.) - Vionell genital spray ad, 1970, with Cheryl Tiegs (Germany) - Zonite douche ad, 1928 (U.S.A.)
***The Perils of Vaginal Douching*** (essay by Luci Capo Rome) - the odor page
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Marvel vaginal douche and Big G for vaginal discharge and maybe a contraceptive douche liquid
Ad from the Anaconda Standard newspaper, Montana, March 29, 1901

Douching in America, of course, is squirting a liquid into the vagina to wash out and/or kill odor-causing organisms or to kill sperm - a birth control device. Douching in many other countries means taking a shower.

Read why douching is discouraged today.

See a Marvel magazine ad (1928) and the booklet Feminine Hygiene The Marvel Way, 1930s?
See more
douche and deodorant ads.

Related: Read also an Australian ad for douche apparatus in a banned publication, about 1900. See an American douche bulb in a book promoting the practice authored by the woman who might have sold the first successful menstrual cup in the world, a predecessor of the Keeper cup. And see instructional material for an American company that sold douche equipment and menstrual cups at Tupperware-like parties in women's houses!

Above: February 5, 1905, NOT from the Anaconda Standard. I show this version because the illustration is better and to show the New York address, different from the San Francisco address, below.
Below: March 29, 1901, Anaconda Standard, Anaconda, Montana. The town's Anaconda Mining Company started in 1884 and I suspect it was a wild bunch. I wonder if there were few women there and if many of them weren't ladies of ill repute - prostitutes - who needed this douche for birth control - or venereal disease - after filling it with Big G (bottom picture) - strange name. Just wildly speculating.
Regarding the Marvel San Francisco address, below, a lady on the next block, 682 Mission Street, sold a not-named cure-all a decade later: Dr. Grace Feder Thompson, whose interesting story I learned from one of her relatives. Read it!
 

See more douche apparatus: Germany (1933, as Hitler was coming to power), Australia, an
American
book promoting the practice, and instructional material for an American company
that sold douche equipment and menstrual cups at Tupperware-like parties in women's houses!
See an American douche set, Mon Docteur (My Doctor in French), with instructions and booklets, from about 1929.

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