Cleaning!
Cleaning
In the same spirit as the section on materials I’ll go through each material and describe the best way for its cleaning and maintenance.
Plastic
The easiest way to clean any plastic surfaces, whether it’s the toy itself, the wire or the battery pack is with a makeup pad or cotton ball with some rubbing alcohol on it. All you need to do is wipe it off and let it dry! Trying to soap up hard plastic is not only frustrating, but it can lead to water getting into it, and ruining your toy. There’s lot of toy cleaners on the market as well, so if you really feel like purchasing one, and it’s one of the kinds that you don’t need to rinse off, go for it – but rubbing alcohol works just as well.
Jelly Rubber or Latex
If you have a basic jelly dildo with no electronics in it, feel free to dunk it into some warm soapy water and scrub away, rinse with clean water and let air dry. If your toy does have a vibe embedded into it, please don’t do this – you won’t get shocked, it’ll just ruin your toy most likely. What I suggest with this kind of toy is using a damp soapy cloth to wipe the toy down, then rinsing the cloth to wipe it down again to remove any soap residue.
Don’t try using bleach or any harsh chemical to sterilize these toys – they cannot be sterilized, and the toy will absorb the chemical. At best, they’ll compromise your toy, and at worst the chemicals will get into whatever body cavity your putting this toy in. Bleach and vaginas do not mix, people.
A good way to keep jelly rubber/latex toys cleaner (and what I do personally) is to use them with a condom. They still need to be cleaned after every use, but you don’t have to worry about bacteria building up in the toy and it becoming a hotbed of infection. What this means is that latex/rubber toys you’ve used anally CANNOT be used vaginally unless condoms are used – bacteria that can be found in the rectum can cause serious infections when introduced into the vagina.
Silicone
Silicone toys are my favorite for a number of reasons – and its sterilizability is probably my number one. It can be plopped into a pot of boiling water for ~2,4 minutes and come out hospital-fresh. You don’t want to leave it in for more than four minutes because the silicone can start disintegrating. Of course, you never want to do this if the toy has electronics embedded into it. Electricity and water still haven’t learned to play nice. In that case, you can hold your toy by its elecronic end and “dip” the toy into the boiling water for a few minutes, or you can run a kettle of boiling water over it. The toy won’t be as sterile as if you got to fully immerse it, but ain’t life a compromise. It’s not necessary to sterilize silicone after every use (I do mine about once a month) but if you want to, it won’t hurt the toys.
You can also use soap and water to clean your toy, following the exact same way you clean JELLY RUBBER OR LATEX. I usually soap/water clean my toys before sterilizing them, just to get any dried-on lube fully off of it.
A lot of toys come with the suggestion that you can put your toy into a 10% bleach solution, which is how many medical facilities used to sterilize, but it’s come out of favor for the more basic boiling. I personally hate the idea of some errant bleach coming into contact with my crotch, and if boiling works just as well, that’s good enough for me. If your toy says it’s dish-washer safe (i.e – there’s no electronics in it) then by all means go ahead and stick it in there – Thanksgiving dinner’s load of dishes may not be the best time though, what with the over crowding and all.
CyberSkin/UltraSkin/Furturotic, etc.
If your toy is made of some semi-realistic material, it will (hopefully) come with specific instructions on how to clean it. Most need to be washed with soap and water very delicately, pat-dried and then powdered with cornstarch (not talc) and kept in a plastic bag far away from other toys. CyberSkin-like materials, when in contact with other toys does funky things and by “funky things” I mean become a big melty mess. It’s possible to get specific cleaning kits for these kinds of materials, and if you’re hell-bent on using these kinds of toys, I’d suggest getting one – just make sure that the dusting powder it comes with isn’t talc – I cannot say this enough, people.
Pyrex/Glass
Pyrex is a trademarked material that can be boiled to be sterilized. Most generic glass toys cannot be – please make sure you know exactly what your toy is made out of before putting it into the pot! Both can be cleaned with soap and water, or with a makeup pad/cotton ball and some rubbing alcohol. The nice thing about this material is its cleaning-versatility because of its smooth, non-porous surface.
Metal
Metal toys can be cleaned much like pyrex or glass, unless of course there’s a vibrator in it – in that case, rubbing alcohol on a cotton ball is best. If your toy is boilable, please take care in taking it out of the water – I would think boiled metal would be extremely hot.
In the same spirit as the section on materials I’ll go through each material and describe the best way for its cleaning and maintenance.
Plastic
The easiest way to clean any plastic surfaces, whether it’s the toy itself, the wire or the battery pack is with a makeup pad or cotton ball with some rubbing alcohol on it. All you need to do is wipe it off and let it dry! Trying to soap up hard plastic is not only frustrating, but it can lead to water getting into it, and ruining your toy. There’s lot of toy cleaners on the market as well, so if you really feel like purchasing one, and it’s one of the kinds that you don’t need to rinse off, go for it – but rubbing alcohol works just as well.
Jelly Rubber or Latex
If you have a basic jelly dildo with no electronics in it, feel free to dunk it into some warm soapy water and scrub away, rinse with clean water and let air dry. If your toy does have a vibe embedded into it, please don’t do this – you won’t get shocked, it’ll just ruin your toy most likely. What I suggest with this kind of toy is using a damp soapy cloth to wipe the toy down, then rinsing the cloth to wipe it down again to remove any soap residue.
Don’t try using bleach or any harsh chemical to sterilize these toys – they cannot be sterilized, and the toy will absorb the chemical. At best, they’ll compromise your toy, and at worst the chemicals will get into whatever body cavity your putting this toy in. Bleach and vaginas do not mix, people.
A good way to keep jelly rubber/latex toys cleaner (and what I do personally) is to use them with a condom. They still need to be cleaned after every use, but you don’t have to worry about bacteria building up in the toy and it becoming a hotbed of infection. What this means is that latex/rubber toys you’ve used anally CANNOT be used vaginally unless condoms are used – bacteria that can be found in the rectum can cause serious infections when introduced into the vagina.
Silicone
Silicone toys are my favorite for a number of reasons – and its sterilizability is probably my number one. It can be plopped into a pot of boiling water for ~2,4 minutes and come out hospital-fresh. You don’t want to leave it in for more than four minutes because the silicone can start disintegrating. Of course, you never want to do this if the toy has electronics embedded into it. Electricity and water still haven’t learned to play nice. In that case, you can hold your toy by its elecronic end and “dip” the toy into the boiling water for a few minutes, or you can run a kettle of boiling water over it. The toy won’t be as sterile as if you got to fully immerse it, but ain’t life a compromise. It’s not necessary to sterilize silicone after every use (I do mine about once a month) but if you want to, it won’t hurt the toys.
You can also use soap and water to clean your toy, following the exact same way you clean JELLY RUBBER OR LATEX. I usually soap/water clean my toys before sterilizing them, just to get any dried-on lube fully off of it.
A lot of toys come with the suggestion that you can put your toy into a 10% bleach solution, which is how many medical facilities used to sterilize, but it’s come out of favor for the more basic boiling. I personally hate the idea of some errant bleach coming into contact with my crotch, and if boiling works just as well, that’s good enough for me. If your toy says it’s dish-washer safe (i.e – there’s no electronics in it) then by all means go ahead and stick it in there – Thanksgiving dinner’s load of dishes may not be the best time though, what with the over crowding and all.
CyberSkin/UltraSkin/Furturotic, etc.
If your toy is made of some semi-realistic material, it will (hopefully) come with specific instructions on how to clean it. Most need to be washed with soap and water very delicately, pat-dried and then powdered with cornstarch (not talc) and kept in a plastic bag far away from other toys. CyberSkin-like materials, when in contact with other toys does funky things and by “funky things” I mean become a big melty mess. It’s possible to get specific cleaning kits for these kinds of materials, and if you’re hell-bent on using these kinds of toys, I’d suggest getting one – just make sure that the dusting powder it comes with isn’t talc – I cannot say this enough, people.
Pyrex/Glass
Pyrex is a trademarked material that can be boiled to be sterilized. Most generic glass toys cannot be – please make sure you know exactly what your toy is made out of before putting it into the pot! Both can be cleaned with soap and water, or with a makeup pad/cotton ball and some rubbing alcohol. The nice thing about this material is its cleaning-versatility because of its smooth, non-porous surface.
Metal
Metal toys can be cleaned much like pyrex or glass, unless of course there’s a vibrator in it – in that case, rubbing alcohol on a cotton ball is best. If your toy is boilable, please take care in taking it out of the water – I would think boiled metal would be extremely hot.
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