Homemade Sex Toy Wipes to Help Keep Silicone Toys Clean

If you’re a fan of silicone sex toys (and if you’re a reader of this site, you’d better be!) you know that many toys, especially the plugs and dildos, attract lint/dust/fur better than your average Swiffer cloth. If you are a cat owner then you will find that you’ve got cat furs on your clean toy within minutes. A reader of mine was asking for advice on which of the existing sex toy wipes would be safe enough to use on the toy without rinsing it off before use. They were in a shared living situation where a trip to the bathroom in the middle of foreplay wasn’t a possibility. Since I wasn’t a fan of some ingredients in commercial wipes, plus they are awfully expensive, I did a little brainstorming.

A family member used to make their own baby wipes and I remember doing this for a number of baby shower gifts. It’s pretty simple, and cheap. We would buy these round Rubbermaid plastic containers (they no longer make these, but I’ve found a good alternative) that fits half a roll of paper towels (you cut the roll in half with a knife). Since it was for baby use, we would get two containers so that an entire roll of paper towels would be made up at once. For sex toy cleaning use I’m sure you could get away with just making up half a roll at a time. But the baby wipe recipes used baby oil (mineral oil) and baby shampoo – these aren’t products that I would want in my vagina. From all the research I’ve done for natural lubes, coconut oil comes up time and again as a great product with many health uses and is generally very well tolerated by most people when used as a lube. Coconut oil doesn’t tend to clog up pores like the commercial oil-based sexual lubes, for most people. Very sensitive people might have an issue, but in the recipe here you’re using so little that you should be okay; still, test it out on yourself. When thinking about it I also wanted something that would provide a bit of extra antiseptic quality, so that it could be used as a cleaning wipe after sex/masturbation. Many people in shared living situations also can’t just hop up and take their dirty sex toys to the nearest sink for washing. Research showed that a bit of tea tree oil would work well, and has been used and recommended as a treatment for vaginitis in a diluted solution. The solution I’ve read about for a vaginitis rinse was 1 teaspoon of tea tree oil to 2 cups of water. I’ve been sticking with that and have not personally had any issues. Since this isn’t being used as a rinse, but a sex toy wipe, not much will get on the genitals.

When making:

Start with boiled water that has cooled down a bit. I shake it up really well in a smaller, lidded container so that everything is as dispersed in the water as it can be, and then quickly pour it over the cut roll in the plastic container. Put on the lid and let it sit for a bit, then turn the container over. Let it sit a few minutes more, and then open it and remove that cardboard core.  Then just continue to pull from the middle of the roll. I use the higher quality paper towels (like Bounty) because they don’t disintegrate. Make sure when you pick out your plastic container that it’s big enough around and tall enough to fit the half a roll.

Try this 7-cup Rubbermaid container. This small bottle of liquid coconut oil will last a long time, and this tea tree oil.

**Disclaimers** 

• You need to make sure that coconut oil and tea tree oil in this very diluted solution is tolerable to your body. It should be tolerable to all but the most sensitive, but please test it out first. I’m not a doctor or a nurse, this is just something I personally use.
• I do not recommend this for latex condom users. While the oil is very much diluted, there could possibly still be enough to break down a latex condom. I don’t recommend that you take the risk.
• Coconut oil has been safe for me to use on every silicone toy I own and was recommended as a natural lube option by Tantus folks. I know that mineral oil should never be used on the cheaper, porous materials like TPR, Elastomer, etc since they are already softened with mineral oil and that would speed the material breakdown.  This solution is safe for glass and stainless steel, but I would contact the manufacturer of your wooden dildo just to be certain.