By adopting good cleansing of your menstrual cup, you can keep it for many years. Discover our tips to clean and sterilize your cup in all circumstances, even in public places.
During your period, cleaning with water
During your periods, between each use of your menstrual cup, we recommend that you clean it as follows:
At first, rinse your cup with cold water to better remove all traces of blood. The blood of the menses is a very favorable environment for the proliferation of bacteria. Then with warm water, 1 to 2 minutes are sufficient to reach the necessary level of sterilization. You can also clean it with an intimate soap (pH 3.5). Remember to rinse the inside and outside of the cup.
To get rid of blood, just tap a finger in the hollow. In less than 3 minutes, you will have cleaned and reinserted your menstrual cup.
Tips for cleaning your Menses Cup cup in public places?
In everyday life, it is not always possible to have optimal conditions to rinse your cup in public toilets.
You can wipe it off with wet paper or wipe and reintroduce it afterwards. You can also clean it with clean, pure cold water.
If you are traveling or in a place without a water point, take a small bottle of water in your purse.
Regularly sterilize your menstrual cup
The Menses Cup menstrual cup is made of medical grade plastic. But it can be useful to disinfect between each cycle to sterilize your cup. On a daily basis, rinsing with hot water is more than enough, but once a month you can do the following:
Use a Menses Cup menstrual cup sterilizer
The Menses Cup menstrual cup sterilizer is used to disinfect your cup. It comes in the form of a container in which you simply insert your cup. Here’s how to proceed:
- Rinse your cup as usual with cold water and then with hot water as indicated above.
- Put your menstrual cup in the sterilizer with the ball/ring/stem down and pour boiling water to completely cover the cup. Close the device and let it work for 5 minutes. If you are in a hurry, you can then pick up your Menses Cup. You can also do more disinfection.
- For this, pour water as in step 2 (but not necessarily boiling). Close the sterilizer and put it in your microwave. Turn it on at medium power for 3 to 5 minutes, to boil the water.
- Wait for the water to cool, take out your menstrual cup, let it dry and put it away.
For more convenience, we also offer a sterilizer for menstrual cup pliable that you can easily take with you.
Disinfect the cup with a sterilizing tablet
You can also use small sterilization capsules commonly used for baby accessories. Instead of bathing the menstrual cup in boiling water, disinfection is provided by tablets that act in about fifteen minutes.
What to do against stubborn tasks?
By following these cleaning and sterilization tips, this should be enough to maintain a good level of hygiene and cleanliness of your menstrual cup while ensuring its good life. But in some cases, it can happen that tasks appear in the interstices of the cup (holes, ledge, rod …). Hot water sterilization should be the reason for the majority of these tasks. If some persist, do not hesitate to dip your cup in a mixture of hydrogen peroxide and clear water for a few hours.
How to fight against odors?
Menses Cup menstrual cups come with their storage pouch which prevents the spread of any bad smells. If you are still facing this embarrassment, just air your cup for a few hours. In addition, sterilization of the menstrual cup should avoid this problem.
Avoid conventional cleaning products for your menstrual cup
A menstrual cup is an intravaginal device. As such, it is necessary to be vigilant about the choice of products used to clean it. We recommend that you regularly follow the good practices of disinfection and sterilization presented on this page and avoid the use of cleaning products or non-personal hygiene such as soap. Exit also passages in the dishwasher or washing machine that could damage the cut.
