It’s Not You, It’s Your Panties…
Dr. Tosha Rogers Shares Tips on Vaginal Care and Talks About Her New Clean & Cute Panty Wash
You may look at her success and say, “wow, I bet she always knew she would work in medicine.” That’s not entirely true. Like many of us, circumstances and changes in our journey simply lead us to our purpose.
I look at myself as two very separate people. I look at myself as Tosha and then I see Dr. Rogers. It’s interesting because my life as Tosha led me to Dr. Rogers. I’m from a single-parent home in west Philly. When I was 13, my mom had a baby and the baby had Down Syndrome and other health issues. I was always very smart – like straight A- Honor Roll. When my brother was sick, and the doctors would come… my mom’s not ignorant by any stretch of the imagination, but she didn’t understand medicine, so she would look at me and say, “Should we do what they are saying? Do you understand what they are saying?” That’s a big ass burden on a thirteen-year old.
At the end of the day, I didn’t know that I wanted to be a doctor. All I know is that feeling of being helpless and having to depend on the knowledge of somebody else for the well-being of our loved one- I hated it. I never wanted to be in that situation again. That’s when I decided that I wanted to be a physician.
I never wanted to be a gynecologist. I wanted to be a pediatric cardiologist. Totally different! So, I went off to medical school with that thought until we had to go out on clinical locations. I hated it. I’m in the third year of medical school and I’m like – I don’t know what to do with my life because guess what, I hate what I’m supposed to do. I just wasn’t for me. My OBGYN location came up and thank God they were Black females.
I said, “Tell me what I gotta do to pass so I’ll stay out of your way and you don’t have to go above and beyond to teach me.” So, she said, “Okay, cool. But the first thing you do have to know is how to deliver babies.” So, then she said, “now hand over hand.” I was like what does that mean suga? She said, “I’m going to put my hands here to deliver the baby and you’re going to put your hands on my hands.” When I delivered the baby, and I know this is going to sound crazy, but the energy in the room shifted. I mean I felt it. Something happened. It was spiritual. It was everything. Something happened and I was like OH MY GOD! I’m laughing with the family and cuddling with the baby and the other doctor was like, “hey we’ve got work to do.”
That day forward, that shift, that presence… that feeling of being partly responsible for that… from that day forward it had me there early and leaving late. One thing I thought I would never do, was the one thing I was called to do. It’s amazing! I loved it and haven’t turned back since. Couldn’t see myself doing anything else.
Falling into her new-found passion, Dr. Rogers discovered she wanted to truly make a difference – not just in medicine, but in cultural perception when it comes to medicine and health care.
With Atlanta Premier, it’s really interesting because Atlanta is separated from the North side and the South side. The South side is thought to be the ghetto side, which technically it isn’t. We have really rich Black people who live over here. Kandy Burruss lives over here. T.I. lives over here. The previous and current Mayor lives over here. But it’s thought that North is White and better and Black is South and bad, but that’s not the case.
When I first came to Atlanta, I didn’t like how the practices that were on the South side were just very… looked like health departments. So, my motto was, “I’m Bringing North Side Medicine to the South Side.” So, the office is very nice, it’s posh. There’s jazz when you come in. If you’re not professional, you can’t represent Dr. Rogers. I feel like it’s ridiculous for us to be ignorant towards each other, but then when you go to the White people, you gotta put your proper voice on. So, here is the standard of excellence, the standard of care, the standard of professionalism – I play no games here.
Coining her level of care as “Comfort Medicine,” Dr. Rogers believes in building a relationship with her patients that go beyond medicine.
We laugh, we cry, we get into personal stuff… my attitude is that if you can’t be comfortable here, you’re not going to tell me the truth. If you don’t tell me the truth, I can’t get to the bottom of your problem, which means, you’re going to leave unhappy and neither one of us wins. So, I make my patients very comfortable here.
I have a patient, a very reliable patient – she said, “Dr. Rogers, I love you, but I got a problem.” I said, “listen, I told you about this vaginitis. I told you why you’re getting it, there are three reasons why you’re getting. You’re doing one of those things.” She says, “I promise you I’m not!” So, I say, “well let’s go through this thing.”
I remember this very patient, because she’s the one that made me develop this formula. She said, “I wake up in the morning, I take a shower. I shower at night. I go to bed. I don’t wear panties. I wake up in the morning, and I smell nothing. I go to the bathroom, I wipe, and I smell nothing. I get in the shower, put my panties on then go to work. About 10 o’clock I go to the bathroom, I make sure I wipe good and then by the middle of the day, I’m fishy.”
Interesting.
So, I ask her if she smells anything on the toilet tissue and she says no. I then ask if she has any excessive discharge and she says no.
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I took my own experience and compared it to what she was saying. She was thinking she had a Urinary Tract Infection (UTI). So, she gave some urine. I took her panties and took a dropper and put a couple of drops onto her panties. She said, “what you are doing?” I wasn’t really sure yet, but I sat them to the side while we talked. About five minutes later, I said, “is this what you smell?” She was like, “YES!”
Dr. Rogers’ background is in Chemistry. Here’s where the genius kicked in…
I told her that I didn’t think she had vaginitis. I asked her how long she’s had the panties, she couldn’t even tell me. I was like… why?! So, I told her, “well, it’s not you, it’s your panties.” I gave her net panties and told her to wear them for five days and if she has the smell again to call me. Five days later, she called saying she didn’t have the smell.
So, it wasn’t her. It was her panties. I’m wondering if she’s saying “I’ve got vaginitis, I’ve got vaginitis, I’ve got vaginitis,” that maybe other women are thinking the same thing. I’m saying no that doesn’t make any sense. Come in, let’s talk. Let me examine you with soap. Many of the other medical practices don’t do that.
I thinking to myself, how many of these women legit don’t have vaginitis, they have the same problem that my patient had.
From that point on, Dr. Rogers begin her research. She even created a “Panty Hygiene Campaign” at her clinic.
Why are we keeping panties for six, seven, and eight years?! Here’s the situation, your vagina is a mucus membrane, it’s going to discharge something. Your mouth is going to discharge saliva. Your eyes, your ears, your nose… any mucus membrane is going to discharge something. So, your vagina has a vaginal discharge. So, even if it’s not infected, what are you going to do? You take your panties off and leave them in a hamper for a week or until wash day… some of us, two weeks!
So, on that moister, if you wet something and leave it be – if you wet your clean clothes and leave them in the washer, what are they going to develop?
MOLD! Ladies, just burn all of ‘em and start over!
What makes you think your panties won’t develop mold sitting in that hamper for a whole week? LOL!
Immediately Dr. Rogers begin to recall all of the various issues her female patients were having and begin wondering if they were in some way related to the same issue this patient had. Her “Panty Hygiene Campaign” took to another level.
What if it’s an allergic reaction? Not only to the harsh chemicals we’re using to wash something as intimate as panties, but what if it is also a reaction to what we’re not getting out of the panties?
I started looking at the list of all the chemicals used in Tide and Gain and none of them are specific, there’s a specific thing you have to use to get yeast out. There’s a specific thing we need to get mold out. It’s not on there. So, what are we cleaning?!
NOTHING! We literally said this in unison. I’m disgusted.
And then you put it into rotation with your other clothing. You don’t want your exterior bacteria to be intertwined with your intimates that’s touching your skin… that’s touching your vagina! That’s how I developed my “Panty Hygiene Campaign.” I said, once you have panties from 6 to 8 months, it’s time to toss them.
Oh, and I don’t believe in ‘period panties!’ Look, you’re a grown-ass woman, figure out your menstrual needs! The reality is, a few months and them toss them! Toss out five, buy five.
Dr. Rogers also recommends that we wash only our bras and panties in a load separately from our other clothing. This discovery mixed with her background in chemistry helped her develop a natural detergent solution to truly clean our intimate wear.
I made sure it was a component that would clean out the bacteria vaginitis and all six of the organisms that cause vaginitis as well as yeast, as well as mold. With that, you don’t need bleach, you don’t need any fabric softener, you don’t need any of that. This detergent is designed specifically for the bacteria that is going to be in your intimates. Now if you want to wash your other clothes in it, that’s fine, but your intimates are what it’s designed for.
The visual that I just had thinking about how clean we THOUGHT we were is making me sick. Thank God for Dr. Rogers and her natural and safe discovery.
Before the detergent was available for purchase, she provided samples at her practice for patients to try for free. The samples gained popularity quickly to where she was having trouble keeping up with the demand as her patients were encouraged to try the samples and leave their opinions after each use.
Before long people would say that they even washed their towels with it. After washing towels and face cloths it would have a residue on them, but after washing them with the ‘panty wash’ it’s just clean… it’s just fresh. The fabric is even softer. You can just tell the difference.
So, I was like, okay, if my harshest critics are benefiting from it, then everyone can benefit. I just went on to market it.
It’s one thing to have a great idea, it’s another to plan, prepare, and package it. Dr. Rogers wrote everything down from the two major types of yeast to all six organisms that make up vaginitis and molds. She then studied the bacteria to specifically identify what will kill what safely. After a while she found the perfect chemical balance to remove vaginitis causing bacteria, mold and yeast.
The product is now available on Amazon and at www.cleanandcute.shop.
It didn’t take long to get it into the market. Honestly, it took longer to get the damn bottles to come in from China and to get the proper labeling, than it did to get it bottled. LOL!
I’ve seen a major shift in the vaginal health of my patients and how many times they bounce back for infection for OBYGN issues. Once I treat you and I educate you on behaviors that you should or shouldn’t have to prevent you from having vaginitis… I see a lot less of the women coming in for those issues.
There have been many times that I have just wanted to feel grown and unwind in a nice hot bubble-bath with those cute flowery bath bombs and a glass of wine. And not to mention the thousands of female hygiene products on the shelves… you want to try them and so make sure you are feeling and smelling fresh and clean. But I was stopped dead in my tracks on that…
I call that “pickling the vagina.” No bubble-bath, no body wash, no Epson salt, perfumed soap, no deodorant soap, no Summer’s Eve, no Vagisil, no baby wipes, and NEVER shampoo your hair in the shower!
Once you’re treated properly, you won’t have vaginitis issues. But you can’t treat vaginitis and then put back on the same panties.
This woman-owned product is natural, non-GMO, sulfate free and developed in the USA. Not only is Dr. Rogers educating and healing her patients, she’s making women all over the world more look at their panties with a stern side eye! Who wants to have a panty-burning party?
I’m begging you to toss those panties and add news ones to your Christmas list! In fact, don’t even wait… log off and go right now! Then purchase your own Clean & Cute Panty Wash today!
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