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green it!
Sharing a shower and the turning lights off when you shack up are simple ways to green up your sex life. But what about greening your arousal and sex products?
eco-friendly sex
Wendy Strgar, owner of Good Clean Love, started a line of natural sex products and shares how to make your sex life more green.
Aphrodisiacs
nat could be a more natural way to rev up your sex drive than with smell, which Strgar calls a "primary sexual organ." Certain foods can spike desire to do the deed, but smelling some scents can do the trick by stimulating the limbic part of your brain where sexual desire, emotion and memory are triggered. Whiffs of scents like cinnamon may be the aphrodisiac
you need to jump-start your libido. Find a natural essential oil (cue back rub) to wake up your nose. Oils can't be used with latex, though, because they make latex weak.
Lubricants
Once you've awakened the limbic part of your brain with arousing scents, the last thing you want is the fountain to dry up or never flow. Strgar says 90 to 95 percent of over-the-counter and adult store lubricants contain petrochemicals. Petrochemicals have been used in products like antifreeze and brake fluid. She also says a third of women at some point in their life will experience a sexual dysfunction, like pain during sex and vaginal dryness, and lubricants with petrochemicals have an affect on that percentage. Strgar's natural lubricants are water-based and contain aloe, seaweed and no petrochemicals. It's important to watch what's going in and on our bodies, and natural lubricants can provide irritation-free sex.
might feel like jazzing up your sex with a toy. Some toys are meant for a handful of uses and then have to be thrown
Toys After you get the love juices going,you
out. Eco-friendly sex toys, however, are more durable, so you can use them for a longer period of time, which helps eliminate waste. Look for rechargeable sex toys, so you don't have to worry about buying and throwing away batteries. Some sex toys contain phthalate, which is a chemical found in some plastics and has been linked to cancer. Strgar says if you can smell your sex toy, you probably shouldn't be using it.
Heather Melanson
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