The Ultimate Aneros Lube (POLL)

Not having tried olive oil, coconut oil, grape seed oil, ID Glide or Probe, my answer would have to be highly subjective!

@sensitiveguy22 I have two equal lubes. The poll does not allow for this. Shea Butter and Sweet Almond Oil and Bees Wax mix -see 'Natural Jelly' variants. I use both but not at the same time. I consider both safe. Both are non water based, smell nice, slippery. So I can't vote, pity
I don't like the after smell of coconut oil.

I've had very good results this past year with Slippery Stuff.

Of course it's subjective, but vote for the one you have found to be the best so far. There are many I haven't tried myself but I've tried to reflect options I have seen mentioned a lot throughout the forum. Also I can edit the poll to allow multiple choices I suppose.

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Yes I understand that, but rather than have two polls I figured you guys can weigh the positives and negatives and choose the one you think is best overall (hence the and/or) Perhaps I should word the question different though if you're confused. I see why there hadn't been a poll lol, too many stipulations.

Ok, since some of you were getting hung up on formalities and semantics, I changed the title and poll question. Sorry, I'm an engineer, not a technical writer or statistician. :p. Better now?

Boy Butter H2O. It contains Shea Butter. It's not expensive, lasts and doesn't stain. No weird reactions. I think you could butter your toast with it.

I hate the name.

Xileh

Boy Butter H2O. It contains Shea Butter. It's not expensive, lasts and doesn't stain. No weird reactions. I think you could butter your toast with it.

I hate the name.

Xileh

Hmm, might have to check that out. Yeah, staining is another thing to consider. One thing I don't like about grapeseed oil (my personal fav so far) is that it can leave stains.

Surely there's more than 21 members on this forum. It would be great if everyone voted so we could have a larger consensus...

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I don't think that matters, though perhaps if I said weighing pros vs. cons as opposed to naming any specific attribute it would confuse less. Really though I only care to know overall what people consider the best lube for aneros use. Yes different people will probably place different importance on factors, but regardless as voting amount increases trends should be evident. Then we can analyze why results reflect what they do...

Unpetroleum jelly

Have any of you tried Aneros Sessions lube? How does it compare to the others ? This is the only lube I have ever tried. It seems to work well for me .Since it is sold by Aneros for their devices I would assume they have well tested it and it is "Safe". What do you folks think?

Only recently obtained Shea butter and to me it's the best, but I still use a bit of olive oil to coat the device ( Helix Syn) after a thin coating of Shea. And my fallback is A&D ointment (lanolin and Vaseline) with olive oil.

A light coating of Vaseline followed with coconut oil. Still going to try Shea butter also. I think coconut oil might be one of the safer/safest ones from what I have read so far.

I've had good luck with Slippery Stuff Gel, with some Un-Petroleum Jelly thinly covering my Aneros device. It'll easily slip out after an overnighter and I can still push out lube, too.

H20 Anal water based work great for me. Nice and slippery and lasts long time for water based!

The best lube that works for me thus far is Astroglide silicone. I've been on my journey now for three years and always find myself experimenting with other lubes. I tried using Shea butter a few times ( as I see that it's the most popular lube of choice here) , but I found it to be sort of messy and so user friendly. Maybe I wasn't doing something right or I had an old batch. Regardless, I always seem to find my way back to using silicone.

No one else has mentioned them, but I find using a lube syringe with about 5 pumps of A) SAFEWAY ADVANCED HEALING unscented lotion or B) BURT'S BEE'S SHEA BUTTER with VITAMIN E - also unscented - are long lasting and (until recently ... see below) safe to use. After some time, a small squirt on the head of my TEMPO (or other device) will keep it all moving smooth and easy.

However, I've substantially reduced use of the Burt Bee's thing as it contains Vitamin E (something many feel is safe - but see the below):

"The new study, published Feb. 21 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, also found that vitamin E supplements can more than double a man's prostate cancer risk, but only if the man has low concentrations of selenium in his body. The upshot, said Kristal, is simple: Don't take high-dose selenium or vitamin E supplements. "No one's ever been able to demonstrate any benefit for taking high doses of selenium or vitamin E, so why do it?" he said. "There's no benefit, there's only risk, so what's the point?""

See:
http://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20140221/vitamin-e-selenium-supplements-might-double-chances-of-prostate-cancer

All that said, I have to plug my new TEMPO. I have tried Helix classic + Syn, Eupo Syn, and Beginner's Peridise. My progress was so clear using the Peridise I had to upgrade to the TEMPO - and it is the best of the lot. You can feel and control a very wide range of tiny movements with the TEMPO that can last hours - even overnight - without some of the negative effects of the others: a feeling of discomfort, whether by friction or something when used too many hours.

Have any of you tried Aneros Sessions lube? How does it compare to the others ? This is the only lube I have ever tried. It seems to work well for me .Since it is sold by Aneros for their devices I would assume they have well tested it and it is "Safe". What do you folks think?
That's what I figured too. It seems alright but I don't know that I should have bought 3 bottles of it...

@Buffalo: thanks for mentioning the hazards of supplemental Vit. E and Selenium!


I was one of the early enrollees in the SELECT study and was shocked when that approach to prevention of PCa was abruptly cancelled.


Aside from some Vitamin D, my Pri-Care physician discourages any supplement extremes and encourages her geratric patients to, "Just eat a balanced diet of 'real' food." She touts a generous amount of dietary fiber to discourage Colon Cancer.


Lubewise... I checked, "Other." At home I prefer a thin base coat of Vaseline or Crisco on the Aneros and my sphincters, then insert a Shea Butter slug (see @Twlltin's or @Xochipilli's posts on Shea Butter suppositories.)


On travel, I use Vaseline or Crisco as a base lube and inject a few ml of Slippery Stuff Gel.


I alternate between Crisco and Vaseline for my base lube. I prefer Vaseline but Crisco seems less gassy.

astrolglide,

Dunno, tried olive, almond, soy, and coconut oil. 3 diff waterbased lubes and vaseline. Not really satisfied by any of the regulars..

Really not my favorite subject. But a bump was requested from the chat. So here it is.

I like a light coat of Vaseline with a coating of Coconut oil.

I am happy using Maximus water based lube

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My favorites have been Slippery Stuff Gel, and Passion Natural Water-Based Lube; on my Aneros, I've found Vaseline and Un-petroleum Jelly to work quite well.