Babeland has done it again, with another high-quality water-based gel lubricant.  Babelicious lubes are sweet, dessert-flavored lubricants that have a light smell and pleasant taste, but avoid bad chemicals and don’t dry out too fast.  They’re just the thing for fun intimate play that lets you switch from massage to oral lovin’ without needing to worry about chemical tastes in your mouth.

  • Toy:  Babelicious Lube (sent by Babeland.com for review)
  • Type: Flavored lubes, water-based, gel
  • Manufacturer: Babeland
  • Material: Water-based (Glycerine and paraben-free)
  • Price: $8
  • SMT rating: N/A

Babelicious Lubes come in a variety of delectable flavors

Following up on their BabeLube, Babeland has also started offering the Babelicious line of flavored lubes for your continued intimate enjoyment.  These lubes, which come in four different flavors, have a light, sweet, desserty smell that makes them excellent for use as massage accessories as well as intimate lubricants.  They have a strong, enticing flavor, making them easy to mix with oral pleasure without unfortunate aftertastes.

Babelicious lubes are water-based and a gel consistency, though not as thick as Babelube.  Since they are glycerine and paraben-free, which makes them safe for your body.  As water-based lubes, they are safe for use with all styles of sex toys and condoms.  They work well as lubricants and stay slick longer than any other flavored lube used by our testers.  They have a pleasant consistency, and are perfect for a variety of intimate uses.  If you’re looking for a body-safe flavored lube that isn’t made from sugars or dries out immediately, Babelicious is just what you’re looking for.

 

Babeland’s aptly named BabeLube is a new, high-quality personal lubricant that avoids chemicals that may be bad for your body (such as glycerine and paraben) and is water-based to be condom and sex toy-safe.  Though it’s water-based, the BabeLube offers a nice, thick gel consistency that will last a long time and provides lots of slickness to your pleasure.

  • Toy:  BabeLube (sent by Babeland.com for review)
  • Type: lubricant, water-based, gel consistency
  • Manufacturer: Babeland
  • Material: Water-based
  • Price: $8
  • SMT rating: N/A

Babeland's new lube is healthy, thick, and condom-safe

BabeLube is a thick, slick water-based lube by Babeland. BabeLube is a high quality lube with no scent or taste that is perfect for a variety of uses. Since it is paraben and glycerin free, it is perfect for sensitive vulvar and G-spot use, masturbation and anal play. Specially formulated not to interact with any materials used in the making of male and female sex toys, it can also be comfortably used directly on all body parts.

To be high-quality, a personal lubricant needs to be: glycerin-free, to discourage yeast growth and infections;  paraben-free to avoid some unfortunate reactions to that preservative; very little taste, odor and sugar, which could also distract from the enjoyment of natural fragrances and support yeast growth.  Thankfully, BabeLube meets all these criteria!  BabeLube has a rich, thick consistency as well as being easily spreadable, for long lasting, desirable coverage, and is sold in amounts that will last many sensual sessions. This lubricant meets all the necessary standards to support the very finest intimate experiences.

 

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  • Toy: Rocket Balm: For His Pleasure
  • Type: Men’s Oil-Based Stimulation Balm
  • Manufacturer: Lover’s Choice Inc.
  • Material: Almond Oil, Coconut Oil, Beeswax, Menthol, Peppermint Oil, Ginseng among other natural ingredients listed on the label
  • Price: $8-$10

Rocket Balm is a novelty item designed to be rubbed on the penis to help stimulate him and heighten his pleasure. It comes in a tin that resembles cuticle cream. Rocket Balm is an oil-based balm with a delightful, peppermint smell, not that a nice clean body needs help to smell good, but it’s nice to have an opportunity to jazz up the way you or your partner smells.

The video above demostrates how to use the balm with the help of the “Big Purple Monster” dildo. The product can be quite cold when you first take it out for use because it comes in a tin, so you will need to press firmly with your fingers to warm up the balm and continue moving your fingers around to get the balm out of it’s container. You may rub the balm wherever you or your partner likes on the penis (including the balls). You should rub Rocket Balm in until it absorbs into the penis and it will leave a slight tingling sensation meant to stimulate.

I enlisted the help of a guest reviewer to try Rocket Balm out because my “Big Purple Monster” can’t tell me its thoughts on the product. What did he think? His first response is that it smells quite nice, however the product is not ideal for hand jobs because of the effort required to get the balm out of the tin; there’s not really enough you can get onto your hands to keep the motion slick. He felt the minty tingling sensation but found it to be really unpleasant. The experience with such a sensation could be different from person to person so you may find that you or your partner likes it; this reviewer did not. Also the reviewer’s partner found the balm to be incredibly uncomfortable (a bit of the tingling sensation rubbed off of the penis onto his partner).

Another thing to keep in mind about this product is it is NOT latex friendly. It says as much on the back of the packaging and all the ingredients are oil based. You cannot use a condom while using the product. Rocket Balm is a balm and is not meant to be used as any sort of lubricant, either for manual stimulation or for penetrative sex. It is only meant to be rubbed on for its tingling sensation. Rocket Balm also comes with a list of ten pleasure tips which are really basic and you probably shouldn’t bother.

So Rocket Balm is a novelty product. It could be fun but our testers didn’t particularly like it. You can’t use it with condoms or for manual sex. It smells nice and some people may like the tingle, but my guest reviewer won’t be using it again, except for cuticle cream.  My reviewers were terribly confused when they noted the stuff has great ratings at Babeland.com and other reputable sex stores, so your experience may vary.

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Yes organic lubricant

Pretty Packaging: Yes organic lubricant

Product: Yes water-based organic lube and intimate moisturizer

Price: .9fl oz for $8, 2.6fl for $23, up to 4.4fl oz for $34

Purchased at: www.yesyesyes.org (I received a complimentary .9fl oz bottle, and you can too – here)

Summary: Yes water-based lube is a delightful, natural and healthy lubricant. Starting as a pleasantly clingy gel (easy to dispense and place), it spreads evenly and absorbs to leave skin smooth instead of gloppy or sticky. Yes has unseated the beloved Maximus as the nightstand lubricant of choice for vaginal use at The Explorers Blog. The bottle is attractive and simple to use with one hand. The product smells slightly fresh and plant-like to me, in a very good way, (although others have reviewed as smell-free) and has no taste. It’s pricy, but completely worth it. If you’ve never tried lube, or had negative lube experiences in the past, this is a product that will have you saying “Yes, please!”

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Astroglide Glycerine & Paraben Free

Product: Astroglide Liquid Glycerine & Paraben Free

Pride: About $6.50

Purchased at: CVS

(Photo from the official site. Check it out for a free sample)

Summary: Astroglide GPF (it’s just too long to type out every time) is a light, thin lube especially suited for those who are sensitive to Glycerine and Paraben, chemicals commonly found in lubes. Cheap glycerine, by the way, can also be a feast for vaginal yeast, so most of us would do well to avoid it. Since Astroglide products have become nearly as easy to find as KY branded lubes, with shelf space in many drug and department stores, this is an easy to find product.

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Maximus Lube

Product: Maximus lube by BodyWise (photo from & linked to their site)

Price: About $20 for 250ml

Purchased At: Aphrodite’s Toybox of Atlanta (can be bought online at many sites, too)

Summary: This product is an all time favorite one, much loved by lube snobs around the world. A thick, water based gel, it’s glycerine (a type of sugar yeast can love) free and biostatic. That means it won’t become a nice home or buffet for bacteria, fungi, yeast, etc.

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