Naked Organic Lube

So, I’ve hopped on
the Babeland band wagon, and have decided to start reviewing for this awesome, sex-positive, queer friendly site. They were kind enough to send me my very own bottle of
Babeland Natural Organic Lube to give a trial run.

As many of you know, I love the lube. A lot. I use it for everything; solo sex, fingering, fucking, fixing squeeky wheels. You name it, I lube it (ok, I’ve never used my cats, but close enough). I was excited to check out this all natural, organic lube.

Now, the bottle was nice — it was a pump bottle, which is awesome for when you’re in the moment, and don’t want to deal with either unscrewing caps, or else leaving the bottle open to spill all over your bed sheets. Surprisingly, the bottle was glass…which is both a positive and a negative. Positive because it’s more environmentally friendly than plastic, negative because my cats are all about knocking over breakable things. Either way, it was very pretty.

So I started by reading the label. 100% natural, 99% vegan. I’m not sure where that 1% goes to, but know it’s only 99% vegan.

Then I got a little confused when I was reading the ingredients…while they were all natural and organic items, they included vegetable glycerin and glucose, which are two things that cause yeast infections in some people. While they don’t tend to be an issue for me (knock on wood), they are for lots of vagina owners, so I’m not sure why I found them in this lube.

I opened up the bottle, and gave it a good whiff. Um. Yeah. Not so much. It smelled not like the beauty of the rainforest, or the pine trees of the rockies. It smelled like…I don’t even know…but nothing that I was excited to sniff. And it tasted even ickier.

With some hesitation, I put some on my fingers. It was thick, sticky, gooey. However, after rubbing my fingers together a bit, it dried out, or rubbed in relatively quickly. I wasn’t sure how I felt about this. I lathered up my cunt with some of the lube, and proceeded to fuck myself, and get myself off with
the Hitachi Magic Wand. About half way through, I had to reapply. And then again. It was drying out, or soaking into my skin. Either way, I was pretty unimpressed.

To be honest, lube wise, I’d recommend
Eros Bodyglide (not for use with silicone toys) or Sliquid H20 (water-based, good for everything, 100% vegan). Neither has glycerin (but Aqua, by the same company as bodyglide, does. Keep this in mind). But, at the very least, this Naturals Organic Lube was still better than all my experiences with KY.

-Essin’ Em

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