Personal lubricants have become a lot more popular nowadays for a lot of good reasons. Perhaps, among common reasons is the fact that it further enhances sexual experiences either with a partner or solo. A study made to 2453 women has discovered that women feel more pleasure when using lubricants whether you believe it or not. There are some who don't produce enough natural lubricant and end up complaining of vaginal dryness. This is actually a common issue after menopause but can also happen after pregnancy or if she's using hormonal birth control.

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Basically, personal lubricants come in 4 general categories namely as petroleum, water, silicon as well as natural oil, which include coconut oil. We will be talking about the benefits of each in the next paragraphs.

Petroleum based lubricants - this is the thickest lubricants that you can have and can last for long, it works perfectly fine underwater like pools, hot tubs, showers, oceans and the likes. This however is not ideal to be used with rubber and latex as it destroys it.

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Silicon based lubricants - if you're searching for a very thin lubricant that can go a long way as well, then this is what you should be using. Apart from that, it has no problem using it together with rubber toys and condoms and like petroleum based lubricants, it works fine underwater too. Due to the reason that it's free of parabens and glycerine, it does not change the pH level of vagina.

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Water based lubricants - as what the name suggests, it is a water based lubricant and universally safe with all condoms and sex toys. It normally contains parabens, propylparaben, methylparaben and butylparaben.

 

Natural oil organic lubricants - as a matter of fact, a big number of natural oils are containing long chain of fatty acids and these oils include olive oil, nut oils as well as ordinary salad oil also known as vegetable oil. On the other hand, these kinds of oils couldn't claim the benefits derived from coconut oil which only have medium fatty acids. Because of this, it lets the body to absorb and interact with the oil easily in comparison to those with long chain fatty acids.

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There are many benefits of opting for coconut oil as lubricant like the fact that it is 100 percent organic and natural, soothing to the skin, non toxic, helps in maintaining normal and healthy level of vagina's pH, has long lasting effect without the need for reapplication, edible and has a great taste, may be separated to smaller amounts and perfect for anal play as it's a bit thicker compared to other lubricants and stays in place easily.