It saddens us to share the news of the passing of a loyal and venerable friend of ours, ContraGel Green.
Personally, I have been distributing ContraGel Green for some 20 years, having seen it’s rise to fame which paralleled the renaissance of diaphragm use.
ContraGel Green quietly gained popularity in Northern Europe, establishing itself as a reliable alternative to N9-based spermicides such as Gygel. Unlike Gygel, ContraGel used Lactic Acid as its base, making it a “diaphragm gel” that avoided the itchiness issue. Introduced to the UK by RDO Medical in 2010, ContraGel Green began to gain recognition as a “natural” and “vegan” alternative to Gygel, eventually becoming known simply as ContraGel.
As with many older products, it went through a few ‘facelifts’, no botox, fillers or liftings, but a few packaging redesigns and some pretty good rebranding.
Around 2015, ContraGel experienced a significant boost when it was repackaged as Caya Gel. This coincided with the launch of Caya diaphragm, a revolutionary, single-sized diaphragm that made diaphragms more accessible to a wider range of users. The combination of ContraGel’s historical reliability and the heavy marketing of Caya Gel led to ContraGel’s decline and eventual withdrawal from the market.
As with all passing products, after a moment of mourning, we must look to the future with a smile, and it’s rebirth as Caya Gel!
If you are a diaphragm user, a health center, a midwife, or an FPA clinic and require a contraceptive gel for your diaphragms or cervical caps, please contact Caya.co.uk.
For two decades David has been the owner and director of several marketing and distribution companies. During this time he has learned the indisputable benefits of looking after customers, colleagues, workers, suppliers and the local community, treating them all as respected stakeholders in a common project. Recently he consolidated his personal beliefs and business ethics by founding and developing several ethical companies.
