Us Reviewing Things

We were wandering through the supermarket the other day, miraculously child free, so we wandered down the lube aisle to see if there was anything new. After our recent successes with supermarket lubes (Wet Stuff, Ansell LifeStyles Natural) we were inclined to try some more. A large purple bottle caught our eye. The purple bottle contained Durex Play, 2 in 1 Massage Lotion and Lube. It was very reasonably priced, came in a large size and the packaging was pretty so we grabbed some.

The packaging is, as I said, quite nice. It's a large bottle with a rounded top (actually, it looks just like a very fat plastic vibe). The bottle is designed to sit with the flip top lid facing down so all the lube runs down top where the opening is rather than a normal bottle where it all pools at the opposite end to the opening and you need to wait for it to run down when you need some in a hurry. Smart. If they were even smarter they would have made the bottle just a little thinner so you could actually use it as a dildo. That's real 2 in 1 thinking. As it is, it's just too thick to be comfortable. At least for Mrs Dave anyway, your results may differ. But enough on the packaging, how did it work?

As regular readers will no doubt remember, we are on a quest to find a replacement for Maximus, our favourite (and now unavailable here in Oz) lube for toys and anal play. After our enormous lube shopping spree we ended up with a cupboard full of different lubes and over the last few weeks we tried them one by one. We found some good ones but nothing that would do the job of Maximus. We looked in our lube cupboard this week to work out which one to test next and to our surprise there was only one left. This was it. Make or break time. One last chance to find our Maximus replacement (well.. OK... we could just go to the sex shop again and buy a bunch more stuff to try but where's the dramatic tension in that?).

What remained untested was a tube of Wet Stuff Plus. Put out by Gel Labs, this is, according to the blurb on the tube" a "proudly Australian made and Australian owned" lube. This was the cheapest lube we bought at the sex shop and since then we have actually seen it in large pump pack at the supermarket so it is very easily available (in Australia anyway). Wet Stuff comes in a bunch of different varieties - flavoured, warming, sensitive skin, thick, thin. All up there would be at least 10 varieties. The Plus is listed as thicker and "extra silky" so we picked that one as it seemed closer to what we wanted. So how did it perform? Ladies and gentlemen... we have a winner.