Ok, great question. Natural vegetable oils are fine. My favorite is Safflower but the other unprocessed vegetable oils are fine - olive, grapeseed, canola (rapeseed in Europe), palm, coconut, soybean, cottonseed. Stay away from processed oil, that is the yellow sesmae oil is good, the dark processed sesame is not.
With the aromatics or "essential" oils, be careful. Some are actually "extracts" or "tinctures" and those contain one or another forms of alcohol. You do not want Alkyl Bezoate or Acetates in you. Those will most assuredly cause some irritation.
Your quoted caution addresses mineral oils and is accurate. Baby oil is fine on your butt but not in your butt.
My approach to massage oils, which naturally end up in me or my partner (grin), is to go to the health food store and buy a pure vegetable oil (safflower is my favorite but the tropical oils such as palm or cocoa are bad in your digestive tract but otherwise great). Then choose one or more aromatic oils - clove, pachouli, sandalwood, whatever you like, and mix them. That gives a good massage oil or lubricant and some nice aromatics. Eva and I usually have three or four different mixes on the shelf!
If you are buying premixes, stay away from anything that sounds like it came from a chemical plant and avoid any form of alcohol. My advice: mix your own.
The caution to use only water based oils is based on some latex barrier. Even with those, pure vegetable oils are fine. Latex is a vegetable product.
PS: People selling sex aids want to sell sex aids. People buying products do not mind using things for other than their intended use. There are no better nor cheaper lubricants for sex or massage than vegetable oils.
Brandye
Posted: 23 Sep 23:49