Omgeee, what a lovely name this cup has! You often hear people say ''What's in a name'' and this truly holds for this cup. We women often have mixed feelings about their periods, even their entire bodies, and then often especially when they're on their periods. at such a time it's not always that easy to love your body. That's exactly why I love the name of this cup: it's a constant reminder to love your body the way it is! Think about it, your body is great because every woman is unique! Even if there are days that you feel not all that well, you can take it from the positive side: it's your body's way of telling you that you need to spoil yourself a bit that day, to just indulge, take a little me-time and pamper yourself! What's not to love about that ;-)
I first found out about the LuvUrBody cup on the menstrual cup section of Femininewear where you can buy a lot of period products. I immediately fell in love with it's name, not to mention it's looks, since it has to be the prettiest menstrual cup around. It's covered in flowers and even it's stem is cute, it being a little leaf!
About the medium size LuvUrBody cup itself:
- It is made in Nigeria from high grade medical silicone.
- It is designed in Malaysia
- It comes with a cute pouch made in cotton.
- It comes in a pretty cardboard box
- It comes with an instruction leaflet in a lot of different languages
- The leaf stem is solid with kind of grip lines to it
- The leaf stem can be cut of and then a ball stem remains aiding in removal too
- Relatively soft rim that's not too prominent and nicely follows the shape of the cup
- The external diameter of the cup is 46 mm
- The internal diameter of the cup is 35 mm
- The height of the cup without its stem is 62 mm
- The total height of the cup, including its stem, is 82 mm
- It holds 38,5 ml up to the air-suction release holes.
- It holds 42,75 ml up to the rim.
A few photos:
I am not sure what to think about the LuvUrBody cup. It is a well-mad cup and it's really pretty with a unique design and beautiful name encouraging you to love your body, which I appreciate very much.
Now onto the cup itself.
The cup itself is quite soft and really huge, which makes it a challenge to get it in (read: not touch the wrong hole with it or for that matter your hands, having to wash it all over again (not funny if you're in a hurry) :p). Once inside, I had a bit of a struggle to get it to open up. The LYB is a softer resistance cup, which makes it more difficult to get it open, its size not being helpful in that matter ( : The softer resistance also is one of its weaknesses if you have a strong pelvic floor and if your looking for a high capacity cup, for that it does have, large capacity. However, you will probably not being able to enjoy it then as your pelvic floor will crush and squish the cup, causing you to leak.
The LYB's stem is a little leaf and looks really cute. It is easy to grip and to hold on to as it has tiny incisions on it, and best of all, it is flexible, which means that you probably will not be poked (I got poked sometimes, but mostly that was because my muscles were playing with my cup (I have a strong pelvic floor and I guess it might be too soft for me.))
Would I recommend the LuvUrBody cup?
I would. I believe it to be a decent cup so it's worth to give it a go. I would, however, only recommend it to you if you do not need a really firm cup and if you have a high cervix. Otherwise, your muscles will squish it, causing you to leak, or it will hurt or poke out if your cervix is too low.