I've been using silicone lube for anal play for a long time, as my favourite toys are often glass/steel. Recently I've got some other silicone toys, and being the kind of indecisive person I am, often want to try various ones.
Not only that, when I've used silicone lube it, erm, 'sticks around' for a long time after. So what do you use to flush it out or clean up after?
Here's some advise about silicone lube
https://www.lovehoney.co.uk/sex/buyers-guide/all-your-silicone-lube-questions-answered/
I'm not sure if I got this right, but if you're using silicone toys you should have an alternative lube to use with them: water based or oil based or butter lubricant. Oil and butter stain fabricks, but so does silicone lube.
Honestly wouldn’t know as I usually just jump in the bath after any anal play but an anal douche may help get you a little bit cleaner and then just shower or bathe as usual?
We use silicone lube (Pjur Original and Pjur Woman) with all our silicone toys. We also use Liquid Silk which is about 2% silicone. Never had any issues with it. Simply wash the toys with liquid hand wash afterwards abd dry with a microfibre cloth - job done. Never thought to wash the lube out of myself after use. Just shower as normal. The silicone lube does not seem especially difficult to clean off stuff with hand-wash or shampoo - if it was our shower would get pretty slick I reckon.
Ive discovered that shampoo is pretty effective at removing it from your skin, much better than a bar of soap. It seems to inhibit soap lather which in turn seems critical to removing it.
I also use Pjur with several silicone toys without problems, you just have to try them out, if they react dont use them again, they wont be ruined.
Gyrator53 wrote:
We use silicone lube (Pjur Original and Pjur Woman) with all our silicone toys. We also use Liquid Silk which is about 2% silicone. Never had any issues with it.
Hy Gyrator53:
You've been lucky. Silicone lube can "mix" with the surface of silicone toys and althogh it's still silicone and not a toxic material, it can get weaker and some fragments of it can detach, which makes the toy dangerous to use. You can read about this in Dangerous lilly's blog. She's an expert in sex toy safety and materials.
Silicone toys can be used with water based lubes or oil/butter lubes without any issues.
@Sole - No, I don't think I have been lucky. We only buy good quality platinum-cured silicone toys and the Pjur lubes as we have been able to confirm they are 100% silicone and not adulterated by non-silicone oils that might react with platinum silicone. I have also use high quality silicone rubber components in engineering over about 45 years so have quite a lot of experience of what is and is not compatible with platinum-cured silicone.
Also, as a confirmatory test several years ago, having had a mouse get into our toy draw we had a Tantus Feeldoe, a Fun Factory Share XL and a few other silicone toys that were no longer usable. I put them in plastic bags along with liberal amounts of Pjur Original lube and left them there for about 12 months and all the toys were just fine (except for the mouse nibbles of course).
I suspect the story about silicone toys and silicone lubes comes about because neither the lubes nor the toys have historically been subject to proper regulation. Toys that are either made from tin-cured silicone or a mix of silicone with non-silicone fillers would be vulnerable and especially if the lube is adulterated with a petrochemical oil.
Because of the premium that can be charged for silicone toys there have clearly been toys claiming to be silicone that were nothing of the sort. I have found this myself, even from reputable sources, in the past. Platinum silicone rubbers are capable of withstanding very high temperatures (I have used them for gaskets in the exhausts of methanol burning engines for example) so it's easy to tell most fakes with a thermostatically-controlled soldering iron.
Sole wrote:
Gyrator53 wrote:
We use silicone lube (Pjur Original and Pjur Woman) with all our silicone toys. We also use Liquid Silk which is about 2% silicone. Never had any issues with it.
Hy Gyrator53:
You've been lucky. Silicone lube can "mix" with the surface of silicone toys and althogh it's still silicone and not a toxic material, it can get weaker and some fragments of it can detach, which makes the toy dangerous to use. You can read about this in Dangerous lilly's blog. She's an expert in sex toy safety and materials.
Silicone toys can be used with water based lubes or oil/butter lubes without any issues.
I’ve read quite a bit on her blog, even she acknowledges that silicone lube is safe with many silicone toys and furthermore it is easy to test without ruining the toy.
otherwise I’ve read a lot on her site that is poorly sourced, based solely on anecdotal evidence and strikes me as a lot of scaremongering mixed in with some decent detailed information. Tough to tell what’s what though, she is clearly very good at marketing herself though!