Why High-Quality Lube is Essential for Great Grown-Up Sex
With the boom of the sexual wellness industry, there are so many personal lubricants on the market. Not all are created equal. From overly clinical, to crude and crass packaging, it’s a seemingly endless field to navigate.
To make matters more confusing, some lubes are not cleared by the FDA which they’re required to be. Instead, they’re marketed under the guise of “personal massage oil”, or use other sneaky work-arounds to avoid the rigorous FDA process. This makes doing thorough research in purchasing high-quality lube important.
So why is high-quality lube essential for fantastic sex? Let us count the ways!
Ingredients Matter
Many lubes on the market contain harsh ingredients that may throw off the delicate balance of your microbiome down there, killing healthy bacteria, causing irritation, yeast infections, and may contain ingredients linked to various cancers. Seriously.
Want to know what ingredients to avoid in your personal lubricant? Click here to read all about that.
Gone are the days of buying the cheapest products you can find at your local drugstore. You’re past that. If it’s going on your skin, it matters!
Did you know that your vaginal tissues change as you age? Due to dropping estrogen levels, your vagina can lose elasticity as well as its ability to produce and maintain moisture. Your skin thins as you age, making it more sensitive, not to mention other factors such as medical history, pregnancy, breastfeeding, menopause, drugs like SSRIs, beta-blockers, or over-the-counter medications. Even medicines for colds and allergies can impact vaginal dryness. These meds not only dry up your nasal passages but everything else, too.
It’s a delicate business down there! That’s why high-quality lubricants become even more important as you age. You want something that mimics your body’s natural lubrication without irritation.
Better Sex
In randomized controlled trials, sexual pleasure of adult women increased with the use of lubricant, both in partnered and solo sexual activities. Even more, women using water-based lubricant had fewer negative symptoms such as pain or chafing. That’s why Beloved’s formula is water-based. It is gentlest on your skin and protects the natural balance of your microbiome.
Still, there are multiple kinds of personal lubricants so do your research on how to choose the one that is best for you. Lube makes for more enjoyable sex, so the higher quality of the lube will enhance the experience even more.
Safety
Do you know if your lube has been FDA cleared? Not all lubes and personal moisturizers have been approved by the FDA. That means it might not necessarily be safe to use on your skin down there.
The FDA is extremely strict in its standards for what can be sold as lube, which is why some companies choose not to invest the large amounts of time and money it takes to get approved. Beloved has gone through rigorous testing to meet all of these standards and made sure that our ingredients go above and beyond to be clean, nourishing and natural.
Simply meeting the standards of “passable” wasn’t quite enough for us. We needed Beloved to be the best lubrication and skin care. Take, for example, an approved and technically “safe” ingredient like glycerin. It is still known to cause yeast infections and other imbalances.
That’s why we are obsessive about every single ingredient that is in our product. We didn’t want acceptable quality, we wanted exceptional quality. You deserve it.
Investment in Your Pleasure
You invest in high-quality products in other areas of your life, why should your sex life be any different? In fact, sex is a form of self-care. Recommitting to be present for every part of yourself, relaxation, excitement, and enjoying these things solo or with your partner is one of the best ways to show up for yourself. High-quality products, toys, and lingerie is a way you are taking yourself seriously and setting an intention to celebrate yourself as you should.
The takeaway? The quality of your products matter! If you’re trusting a company with a product that is used in some of your most intimate moments of your life, you don’t want it to be just good. You want it to be exceptional. Just like you.