The guide to lubes & lotions
Enhance your sensuality with lubricants and lotions. Use lubricants and lotions by yourself or with a partner to increase the slide and glide of your sensual experience. With an array of lubes and lotions available to you, create incredible sensations that’ll make you reach your peak.
Where to Start
There are so many options in lubes and lotions that it’s hard to know where to begin. For lubricants, it’s important to know the difference between water-based, oil-based, and silicone lubricants. These lubes have different uses and compatibility with toys and condoms—see our section on lubricants below. With lotions, knowing what you’re aiming to accomplish will help you choose the right lotion, such as massaging or creating tingling across the body!
| If you’re looking for... | You should try a... |
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| Good all-purpose lube, safe for sex toys | Water-based lube |
| Long lasting, waterproof | Silicone lube |
| Any form of anal penetration | Anal lube, numbing agents |
| Lube for solo play | Water, silicone, or hybrid lube or gel |
| Lube for use with condoms | Most water and silicone lubes are latex safe |
| Lube for sensitive skin | Organic or natural lube |
| Something for oral sex | Numbing deep throat spray, flavored lubricant |
| Sex-enhancing lotions | Plumping lotion, G-spot stimulating gel, tightening gel |
| Extra sensations | Tingling, warming, cooling or flavoured lube |
Choosing the Right Lube or Lotion
Knowing what you want to do with your lube or lotion will point you in the right direction for picking the right one for you. There are different lubes and lotions for anal sex, masturbation, massages, and types of condoms. Once you’ve decided on the purpose of your lube or lotion, you can start looking into the types available to you.
Types of Lubes
Lubricants increase sensations, glide, and slide. If you’re pairing lube with a toy, be sure to know the material of the toy to determine whether or not you can use it with a certain type of lube. Scroll down for more information about lube compatibility.
- Water-based: Don’t worry about staining your bed sheets with water-based lubricants! This type of lube is compatible with a majority of sex toys and keeps you wetter for longer.
- Silicone: Increase the length of your slippery fun with silicone lubricants. Both resistant to water and non-sticky, use this lube with latex condoms and some sex toys!
- Hybrid: With a hybrid lube you get to enjoy the natural feeling of water based lubes while also getting the benefits of a longer lasting silicone formula.
- Organic: These lubricants use natural ingredients to ensure body safety for sensitive skin and still providing an enhanced sexual experience.
- Flavored: Make oral sex more slippery and tasty with the help of flavored lubricant. You can pick from flavors like cherry, banana, and caramel to get your taste buds singing as you pleasure your partner down below.
- Numbing: Use numbing lubricants to lessen your sensations. While normally you want to feel as much as possible during sex, there are times when numbing lube can lend a helping hand. Numbing lubricants are great for anal beginners or those with a low pain tolerance, but always stay within your body’s pain threshold. It might not hurt in the moment, but it could when the lubricant wears off!
- Oil-based: Oil-based lubricants, such as baby oil, mineral oil, petroleum jelly and vegetable oils, are thicker and heavier than water and silicone based products. Great for anal sex, oil-based lube makes you slippery in all the right places. Not compatible with vaginas or latex, this type of lube is best for people who don’t need to use condoms (... but always practice safe sex!).
Compatibility
You need to be wary of what lubes work well with your body and with your toys! The right lubes are super useful when it comes to sex, making for easier penetration and a more exciting sensory experience. The chart below shows different types of sex lubes and their compatibility with your body and different sex toy materials.
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* CyberSkin, Real Feel Super Skin, Better-Than-Real, Fanta Flesh, Futurotic, Loveclone RX, UR3, Sensafirm etc...
** Wood and Ceramic toys need proper coating to be used within this chart
Types of Lotions
There are all kinds of uses for lotions for better sex! While lubricants are primarily for penetration (whether vaginal, anal, or oral), lotions are used to increase sensations. Pick from an array of tingling, cooling, warming, and stimulating lotions for massages and other sensual activities.
- Massage lotion: Give your partner a sensual massage using massage lotion. This type of lotion is smooth and light for a sensual and relaxing full-body massage.
- Plumping: Apply plumping lotion when you want to look and feel harder. This lotion increases blood flow to your penis to make your erection bigger for increased enjoyment.
- Prolonging: Increase your stamina with prolonging lotion. By reducing sensations at the tip of your penis, prolonging lotion increases your endurance and ability to perform for longer.
- Tightening: Increase friction during penetration by applying this body-safe lotion. Massage this lotion into the walls of your vagina to ensure tighter, more pleasurable penetration.
- G-spot stimulating gel: Enhance your sexual experience with G-spot stimulating gel, which increases sensations in all the right places. By increasing the size and sensitivity of your G-spot, this gel makes it all too easy to reach new heights of sensuality.
- Flavored: Treat your partner to a relaxing, soothing massage that involves your hands and your tongue! You can pick from flavors like cherry, banana, and caramel to get your taste buds singing as you pleasure your partner with a sensual massage.
- Tingling: Add new sensations to your play with tingling massage oils and lotions. While your partner works the lotion into your skin, enjoy a pleasurable tingling sensation.
- Cooling: Change the temperature with cooling lotions, making sensations feel brand new and exciting. Cooling lotion is great for increasing pleasure and playing with sensations.
- Warming: Turn up the heat with warming lotions and increase your body’s sensitivity for increased pleasure and fun.
