Despite popular belief, Lysol douche did not prevent pregnancy. According to a 1933 study, 250 of 507 women who used the disinfectant for contraception got pregnant. —Andrea Tone, Devices and ...

Those early Lysol ads included negative references to odors or germs, ... In 1961, a man complained to Lehn & Fink after a Lysol douche caused his wife’s vagina to blister and bleed.

The turn-of-the-century Lysol douche: For those married women whose genitalia doesn’t naturally reek of bleach like it used to. These early-1900s ads, courtesy of flickr user mrbill, explain the ...

Here's the deal: Back in the early 1900's before it became known as a disinfectant, Lysol was marketed as a douche, aka a feminine hygiene product. Some even used it as birth control as the ...

The pictured Lysol bottles and 1930s vaginal douche (along with other artifacts like 1920s condoms and ads for vaginal suppositories) were intended for a display in an exhibit about the history of ...

President Donald Trump’s disinfectant idea isn’t the first time someone has suggested placing cleaning products inside the body. For decades, Lysol pushed women to use its product as douche ...

Those early Lysol ads included negative references to odors or germs, ... In 1961, a man complained to Lehn & Fink after a Lysol douche caused his wife’s vagina to blister and bleed.

Lysol manufacturer Lehn & Fink once marketed its antiseptic disinfectant as a vaginal douche, according to vintage advertisements from the early to mid-20th century. Women, the ads suggest, were ...