Even though the term is sexual wellness or intimate wellness, the products available in the market rarely follow the wellness part. And yet, you have probably spent more time looking up the ingredients of skin care products than the intimate products you use on your sensitive areas.
It’s time we changed that.
Let’s take equal care selecting plant-based intimate products and forget about the synthetic ones. Let’s give your body time to recover from the harsh chemicals and gain all the benefits from plant-based items instead.
What Are Plant-Based Intimate Products?
Think of lubes, enhancement capsules, intimate wash, and condoms. Usually, these intimate products come doused in all kinds of synthetic ingredients, including parabens, artificial colors, glycerin, and fragrances.
These harsh chemicals carry health risks, from irritation and allergy to real consequences such as cancer.
Plant-based intimate products replace the chemicals with natural extracts from plants such as hemp (CBD), aloe vera, chamomile, coconut tree, tongkat ali, etc.
Your cannabidol (CBD) infused lube and tongkat ali infused capsule aren’t quick solutions, but they come with long-term health benefits. Moreover, your plant-based intimate items don’t destroy the environment in the manufacturing process.
3 Key Benefits of Plant-Based Intimate Products
Beyond preventing side effects, plant-based intimate products come with lots of natural benefits, including:
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No irritation or allergy: While it’s not impossible, most people don’t tend to be allergic to plant-based products. You don’t have to worry about itchy skin or large rashes after trying on a herbal product.
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No Fragnance: Plant-based products either have no fragrance or the sweetest, gentlest ones. Some people get a headache from fragrance or even develop allergies. But herbal products don’t assault your senses.
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Skin Care: Using a plant-based intimate product is skin care. Plant extracts tend to be rich in vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Not only are you preventing skin disease, you’re providing your skin with nutrition.
Why It Matters for Sexual Wellness
When you use synthetic intimate products, you risk upsetting the vaginal microbiome and pH balance.
Your natural vaginal pH balance is between 3.8 and 4.5. In comparison, parabens have a pH range of 4 to 8. Parabens are also antimicrobial, disrupting the vaginal microbes.
Unbalanced pH triggers bacterial and yeast infection, itching, and abnormal discharge.
Not only do plant extracts help you maintain pH and microbiome level, but some, like CBD, make way for a comfortable, pain-free sexual experience.
CBD, when it seeps into your bloodstream via lubricants or oral intake, gets you to relax mentally, boosts blood flow to the vagina, and reduces swelling after sex. Similarly, aloe vera and other plant extracts can soothe and hydrate your skin.
Top 3 Intimate Products to Replace With Plant-Based Items
If you’re unsure which intimate products to start your spring cleaning of synthetic items with, here are the top 3 you should definitely be replacing:
1. Lubricants
You need lube during sex. Otherwise, everything is too dry, too rough, and you’re overtly sensitive, but not in a good way.
Only standard lube can have some unpleasant side effects, depending on the base and ingredients.
Most lube has harsh chemical ingredients, including parabens, glycerin, gluten, glycol, and synthetic fragrances. At best, these chemicals result in a skin allergy or rashes. At their worst, they can cause hormonal imbalance, mess up the pH balance, cause reproductive issues, and even cancer.
Not to mention, the glycerin in your lube breaks down into sugar, which can cause a yeast infection.
In fact, you should be careful while selecting natural lube as well. Coconut oil, while generally beneficial, can lead to yeast infection and condom breakage in lube form.
Among plant-based options, water-based CBD lube is the better alternative. The chances of side effects are low, while the benefits range from pain reduction to complete mental relaxation.
Take CBD Infused Intimate Lubricant from Goddess Naturals, for example. It’s water-based, meaning it’s latex compatible with latex condoms, maintains pH balance, and absorbs CBD faster into the body.
2. Enhancement Capsules
Enhancement capsules count as dietary supplements. As such, the authorities are incredibly lax regarding the ingredients and testing process of these supplements.
Most of the enhancement capsules you’ll come across in the market have harmful ingredients, including hard drugs. It’s not unusual to experience nausea, headache, stomach upset, or worse, liver and kidney damage from these drugs.
Some people also become reliant on the euphoric high from the hard drugs and go through spirals of depression.
You can’t get the same extent of side effects or dangerous highs from all-natural enhancement capsules. But you do get all the benefits.
Like how Tongkat Ali extracts can boost your stamina, energy, and sexual desire. Similarly, derivatives from citrus peels can have a positive effect on heart health and lead to an increase in testosterone.
Together, you can take them in Natural Male Enhancement Capsules by Goddess Naturals. Not only are the ingredients completely plant-based, but the capsules have no preservatives, artificial color, soy, gluten, or any other item you might have an allergy to.
The ingredients are only plant extracts and nothing else.
3. Condoms
Latex condoms are as effective, if not more, than non-latex options such as polyurethane and polyisoprene condoms. The only reason you would have to go for a non-latex condom is if you’re using oil-based lubricant.
It’s something you can easily avoid while maintaining a little more of your environmental duties. After all, a condom is something you have to throw away, so it’s better to be as vegan as you can be.
On another note, you might want to go for Goddess Naturals’ Premium Latex Condom.
While both latex and natural rubber count as plant-based, latex doesn’t tear easily when in contact with lube. Unlike natural rubber, latex can be resilient, yet ultra-thin.
Certifications Your Plant-Based Intimate Products Should Have
Even when it comes to plant-based products, you should look for certain certifications. Otherwise, a brand could slap on the all-natural, vegan label without actually following any of the standard practices.
Here are some certifications you should look for:
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USDA Organic: The USDA Organic certificate promises the manufacturers have gone through great lengths to ensure the product is 95% free of pesticides, fertilizers, dyes, and has been processed in an eco-friendly way.
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Cruelty-Free: The cruelty-free label assures us the products haven’t been tested on animals.
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Non-GMO: This label indicates the plant or the plant extracts have not been genetically modified. If the DNA of an ingredient is modified, you can’t be certain you’ll get the same benefits or dosage, which is why this is a label your product should have.
Final Thoughts
Intimate products seep into your skin. It’s not something you can be careless with.
It’s time you made the switch to plant-based intimate products and actually see the wellness in action these products promise. Let’s kickstart your natural intimate wellness journey with Goddess Naturals for a clean, elevated intimate experience.