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Silicone Lubricants
Are thought of as relatively new product, but silicone based lubricants have been used by several condom manufacturers for many years. A large amount of manufacturers are now offering silicone based lubricants because of their safety and lasting qualities. Because silicone is not water based, silicone lubricants won't dry up, they stay slick for a very long time unlike water based lubricants. But silicone lubes are safe for use with condoms.
If you use a silicone lubricant without any additives you're unlikely to have any topical body reactions, irritations, allergic reactions. For this reason it is a good choice for people who have sensitive skin. Silicone based lubricants are also great for full body massages, as a skin moisturizer, and you can use it for shaving. Because they don't break down in water, silicone lubricants can be used in the bath or shower, or for any kind of underwater kinky fun. But remember silicone lubricants are not compatible with silicone rubber sex toys or cyberskin sex toys. You should never use silicone lubricant with these sex toy materials!
Personal lubricants
Are perhaps the greatest forgotten sex toy lubricants. While it's true that lubricant can be used to solve a sexual problem, like vaginal dryness, lube is much more than something to use only when you need it.
The right personal lubricant can: Intensify and enhance sensations during sex for your pleasure or your partners sex experience. Change the way that sex feels. Help you have sex longer. Make safer sex safer by reducing the chances that a condom will break. Eliminate pain associated with intercourse that comes from dryness. And it's essential for certain kinds of sex play, like using sex toys and anal toys!
Water Based Lubricants
The majority of lubricants available today are water based lubricants. Water based lubricants are typically more recommended by doctors and health care workers, and water based lubes are the kind usually made available for free at sexual health clinics. Water based lubricants are considered safer and better than the old style oil based lubricants because they don't damage condoms and sex toys and they flush out of, and off of, the body more easily than oil based lubes.
Here are three differences between most water based lubricants:
- Feel and consistency
- Ingredient list
- How long they last
The great thing about water based lubricants is there available in every conceivable consistency; from thin as water to thick as pudding. Thicker water based lubricants are better for anal play and easier for playing with sex toys. It's also possible that a thicker lubricant creates an extra cushion of comfort for anal play, and certainly true that it's easier to use with sex toys as it stays on better than a thin lubricant will. But remember they can also be messier and more noticeable while using them. Some people find thinner lubricants are cleaner and less noticeable. Also you may want to consider how the lubricant you're using feels when it dries. Most water based lubricants will feel a bit tacky when they dry up. There are a few non-tacky products out there that are less sticky when they dry.
Warming, Scented, Flavored Lubricants
There is nothing necessarily harmful in warming, sented or flavored products, but remember if you are already sensitive to these products, stay away from these options and stick with the regular lubricants above. Desensitizing Creams and Sprays
Are another group of products that are used to treat premature ejaculation. This group is the desensitizing creams, sprays and lubes that contain local anesthetics (most often). Available in both drugstores and retail online sex stores, these products simply numb the skin, which ensures a man will maintain an erection longer by eliminating most of his sexual pleasure. In clinical studies these desensitizing creams have been found effective in delaying male ejaculation.
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