Comments on: Viva la Diva Cup!

By: Geli

Geli — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:11:53 +0000

;-)))))…. first of all..who is Gotta ?? .. This english word i didn’t heard befor ,-))… ok – now i found it i a dictionary internetsite. Thank God for internet !!
Germans like sauna. In the last years, were build a lot of great centers. There you can visit a lot of different saunas wiht differnt temperature and humidity. Most of them have nice themed names like “rose sauna” – “herbal sauna” ..and so on. They pouring water over heated rock with different smell.
At home in our basment we also have a little sauna. But we like to visit the great sauna-center. If you are curiously have a klick on wwww.therme-erding.de – its close to munich an they claim to be the greates sauna-area in Europe. Yes – and of course – every body is naked. Two years ago we traveled to whistler mounten for skiing. In the hotel there was a little sauna – and every body inside donned swimwear. The people didn’t use any kind of towel – and every body was sweating on the wooden seats in the sauna…. terrible ;-))). In the bathing cabin, there was a woman which was able to chage her clothes without showing only one inch of naked skin. I belive she was realy shocked as i striped before her eyes ;-)). Tell me if I am wrong, but we are a more swinging. ( is this the right word ??? ) … ok.. but in Italy is the same thing with sauna as in USA or Canada ! In countrys i didn’t had the chance for sauna. I hope my english is halfway ok for explaning the sauna problem ;-))… bye and greatings from overseas.

By: soleilsundance

soleilsundance — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:13:59 +0000

Geli – thanks for the comment! I’m so glad this works out for you… another woman helping the planet and feeling good about her feminine monthly cycle. Gotta say, I can’t imagine the sauna situation, but… awesome!

By: Geli

Geli — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:11:47 +0000

Your posting was the last deciding point to buy the cup. Thank you !! Last year I chance upon bye comp through a outdoor internetshop. I wounderd about this, becaus I never heard about it. Now I am a realy happy owner of the cup. It’s great to use it during running, skiing … And one fantastic thing is to use it during visiting a sauna. In germany every body is naked – men and woman – and i haven’t be afraid about the blue string ;-)) geatings

By: soleilsundance

soleilsundance — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:29:04 +0000

Haha! Pamela, so glad to hear! :)

By: Pamela

Pamela — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:34:40 +0000

Hey, was thinking of you because I got one of these this week — would NEVER have known about it were it not for your blog — and it arrived just in time :-) So far, so good.

By: soleilisme » Ragnagnas

soleilisme » Ragnagnas — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:04:51 +0000

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By: Samira

Samira — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:13:14 +0000

That was the name for it, INSTEAD! Anyway, this does seem pretty interesting. Never thought of actually trying this out before the actual period just as a testing phase. Just may do so, I hate periods in general.

By: Leona

Leona — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:35:59 +0000

Fascinating. My friend’s mom is a sex educator, and she got some samples of Instead in the mail before it went on the market. We used one as a cat toy and broke the other over her gearshift, but we NEVER considered using them because of the potential for mess on removal. Your environmental argument for this product is very interesting to me, though. I’ll think about it…

By: soleilsundance

soleilsundance — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:34:44 +0000

Hi Ladies,

So it seems like it leaking or it getting stuck is a concern…

Leaking: it doesn’t leak. Or at least not for me… It takes a little bit of practice to get it in and feel like it’s in the right spot, but it’s not that hard. I actually tried that with some lubricant when I was not on my period yet. I didn’t want to get it wrong and get it messy.

Learning how heavy your flow is also can help prevent leaking. If you leave it on for too long and fill it up, it could unseal the cup.

Get it stuck: Never happened to me yet. It doesn’t get inserted like a tampon. It sits at the very beginning of your cavity, not way up there. It’s far enough that you don’t feel it when you sit or move around, but close enough that you can grab it easily with two fingers without “reaching”.

Also, its little end tip helps to grab it. I actually had to trim it a little because I felt like for the cup to feel in the right place, it needed to be a little bit shorter. And it works out just fine :-)

By: Samira

Samira — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:01:37 +0000

I want to know how you’re supposed to get that thing in and not have it poke out too much. or feel funny while sitting. Remember those reusable ones, similar to this that had a ring and a plastic-like sac? Those seemed much easier to get in, except still weird. How could you get it OUT is the question without the plastic sac not spilling!

This is too funny, I love how you freely talk about this sort of stuff. Whats next?