What lubricants are suggested to treat vaginal dryness?

Evelyn Minaya shares suggestions for lubricants that women can use to treat vaginal dryness. Silicon-based lubricants are last longer but also leave a residue.

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Rub it in between your fingers and you see that it dissipates and you have nothing left. That means it's a little bit too thin and it won't do its job.

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Most importantly, it won't last, and then you have to reapply. And that kind of cuts the mood, if you get what I'm saying. [MUSIC PLAYING]

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These are my suggestions for the lubricants that you can use to treat your vaginal dryness. I like things that are silicone-based,

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in other words, things that are thicker, that leave, they can leave a residue so that you know. However, it does last longer, as opposed

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to water-based lubricants, which really dissipate with nothing. If you rub it in between your fingers and you see that it dissipates and you have nothing left,

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that means it's a little bit too thin and it won't do its job. Most importantly, it won't last, and then you have to reapply.

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And that kind of cuts the mood, if you get what I'm saying. So most importantly, I like lubricants that don't have any special stuff.

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Less is definitely more. For example, warming sensation, anything with aloe in it,

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anything that's not supposed to belong there, perfumes, flavors, and things like that, please do not use them.

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That can cause a really big irritation in the vagina in which, of course, then you would want to have sex.