Skip navigation! Story from Sex Toys. As a kid, you probably guarded your Polly Pocket dolls with your dear life, treated your Beanie Babies to a weekly bath, and always made sure your Furby had fresh batteries. Now that you're grown, your sex toys deserve the same TLC , particularly when it comes to keeping them clean. Regularly cleaning your sex toys will keep the material and motors in shape , so that they last longer, says Claire Cavanah, co-founder of Babeland , a sex shop in New York City. Not to mention, your sex toys navigate sensitive terrain. While there's nothing "dirty" about genitals, bacteria can build up on your toys and spread, so it's important to clean them regularly, she says.

Before you become better acquainted with your new toy, check out these tips to keep them and you clean, happy, and healthy. As someone who makes smart vibrators for a living, I can share some of the best and easiest ways to keep your vibrator clean as a whistle. For any product that you purchase—particularly anything that touches your body like clothing, cooking products, and sex toys—clean it before using them the first time.

Your question may be answered by sellers, manufacturers, or customers who purchased this item, who are all part of the Amazon community. Please make sure that you are posting in the form of a question. Please enter a question. Intimate toys can easily spice things up in the bedroom and bring flare back to your sex life, but keeping things hygienic is always important. When it comes to something as intimate as your toys, simply running them under water is not enough.