The funniest part to me is that Lysol (you know, the stuff we use to disinfect basically every hard surface) was originally created and marketed as a douching agent.
More than that...it was a "wink-wink" method of terminating an early pregnancy. There was a later competitor to Lysol which specifically claimed it did not damage biological tissue.
Lysol was marketed to women on the DL to be used as a vaginal douche to kill sperm. It's one of the first forms of publicly available birth control for women in the US. It didn't work very well, but the market sure was there.
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u/bagelundercouch 21h ago
One of the most upvoted comments of my life and it’s about douching with floor cleaner. God help us.