Atomic! Balance Activ?

[zanacal]

http://www.balanceactiv.com/pdf/Brochure.pdf

What do you think of this for a girl sway? It seems to be a buffered gel like Rephresh but has lactic acid in it. In the FAQ it says not to use if trying to get pregnant because the pH is so low and it might prevent pregnancy!

[zanacal]

Ingredients and pH:


Lactic Acid Glycogen Propylene Glycol Methylhydroxypropyl Cellulose Sodium Lactate Water pH3.8

[rainbowflower]

it does sound like it does much the same.,.. but RepHresh has the benefit that it stays in there for 3 days and that one doesn't?

[zanacal]

I'm not sure because it says to only use once or twice a week for maintenance of vaginal pH (as opposed to treatment of an infection).

[atomic sagebrush]

I think it looks fine but I do feel like I have more info about the RepHresh.

[atomic sagebrush]

I'm not sure because it says to only use once or twice a week for maintenance of vaginal pH (as opposed to treatment of an infection).

That is what Replens says too though and that doesn't keep working the way RepHresh does.

[zanacal]

In the interests of experimentation I bought some today to try out. I think it's probably thinner than Rephresh because there has been a little leakage and it doesn't leave me 'claggy' like Rephresh - so perhaps it would be a little easier to get pregnant with the Balance Activ because there's only the pH to slow the sperm down and not the pH/consistency combination. Complete supposition of course!

As you know, my pH is always around 5 on the strips, so I don't think I can provide too much information on that front! I did check an hour or so after I used it and the strip was orange (it's always green!) but I suspect I was just checking the gel. I'll try again later after some time has passed. I guess it's not much different to using a whole tube of Aci-jel? Perhaps it's more comparable to that than Rephresh, but better for us UK ladies because it's much cheaper and you can buy it in Boots!

[rainbowflower]

that's an interesting theory about the consistency...
might be worth trying some for lube for OV day BDing!

[atomic sagebrush]

In the interests of experimentation I bought some today to try out. I think it's probably thinner than Rephresh because there has been a little leakage and it doesn't leave me 'claggy' like Rephresh - so perhaps it would be a little easier to get pregnant with the Balance Activ because there's only the pH to slow the sperm down and not the pH/consistency combination. Complete supposition of course!

As you know, my pH is always around 5 on the strips, so I don't think I can provide too much information on that front! I did check an hour or so after I used it and the strip was orange (it's always green!) but I suspect I was just checking the gel. I'll try again later after some time has passed. I guess it's not much different to using a whole tube of Aci-jel? Perhaps it's more comparable to that than Rephresh, but better for us UK ladies because it's much cheaper and you can buy it in Boots!

Nice! Thanks!!!!

[zanacal]

D'you know what, I'm seriously thinking of using this!

My pH strip was orange (a first!) for 3 or 4 hours afterwards. Although it's a gel, it's quite watery and I'm slightly worried that having DTD every day for 10 days then showered the sperm in acid and dumped half of them in the toilet - it might be a bit much to expect them to swim through a whole bunch of claggy gel too iykwim? I compared the consistency to Aci-jel and it's much thinner (Aci-jel is pretty thick). Presumably that's why only a finger tip of Aci-jel is used, along with the fact that it's very low in pH and possibly doesn't contain any buffers. I'm thinking that using the Balance Activ, which is much thinner will mean it's more likely to get into all the nooks and crannies when used with the applicator. I know there's a belief on IG that Acetic Acid is the one we need and no other type of acid will do - but why is that? It doesn't make much sense to me if we're just trying to kill off a few sperm at the offset to lower count.

I do get that Rephresh is good for its 'keeps working' element, but we're only DTD unprotected a couple of times (I hope!) so it's not a big deal to me to use something each day a few hours beforehand. Of course I wouldn't want to add something every single day for ten days though (in which case I'd use Rephresh). I'm also not concerned with lowering my pH once the sperm have left the scene. Whenever I've tested Rephresh I've pulled out that horrible thick white stuff others have spoken about - and I think that's just how the gel is rather than cells shedding or anything like that - which is a bit ick and may be unpleasant for DH too. I keep thinking how it seems that some of the spermicide products potentially work by being incredibly thick gels rather than containing lots of spermicide (although the Rephresh website does say that it is sperm friendly!).

It just seems that this might be a good compromise between the gels and a douche - with a consistency which seems more akin to a lubricant and isn't too thick and can get everywhere in the vajay but without the potentially testosterone increasing palaver of mixing up a douche, which surely doesn't 'stick around' like a gel (albeit a watery gel!) can. It's also more hygenic than a douche (not that I'm considering one of these!) with the applicator.

As you can see, I'm VERY open to changing my mind if anybody else has any thoughts on this!