New YES VM

Has anyone tried the new YES VM vaginal moisturizer?

I've tried the YES water based lubricant in the past, but with my skin issues now, it seems to sting/burn too much. Plus, it sounds like they reformulated the water based lubricant, and women are seeming to report more irritation with it, which is sad.

The new YES VM ingredients (see below) don't sound too great, but as long as it doesn't produce that creepy white discharge like RepHresh, I would be willing to give it a go.

Ingredients: Water, flax gum*, aloe vera*, locust bean gum*, guar gum*, sodium chloride, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate, citric acid, phenoxyethanol
*certified organic ingredients

I haven't tried the VM, but I might be able to shed some light on possible reformulation of the lubricant. They changed the packaging a few months ago to a much more sensible tube shape. I haven't noticed any difference in the ingredients or the product itself though.

Do you find that the water based lubricant actually makes a difference with dryness on the vulva, or do you only use it for sex or internally?

I really need to put something on my skin to help it heal, and all my doctor wants to throw at me are steroid creams, which I'm not interested in.

I only really use it for physio exercises with dilators and recently for sex. That means I'm using it virtually every day internally (for the dilator exercises that is!). Some of it obviously ends up on the outside and acts as a moisturising layer but I don't apply it externally. I don't know if I'd have any dryness without it. I suspect probably not as I don't think the root of my problems was ever dermatological. It's difficult to say though.

Oh my. I just ordered this water based lubricant YES, myself. I guess we shall see how it does for me when I get it. I read there is an oil-based one too.

A few weeks ago I ordered a small tube of the vaginal moisturizer, and I just tried it last night for the first time. Thought I would post my initial thoughts on it  

I didn't notice any crazy irritation from it, but my skin is overly sensitive right now, so the mild burning it caused for maybe a minute after application didn't worry me much (YES WB can do that to me too).

YES VM is thicker and less runny than the water based lubricant, which can be either good or bad. I apply it to almost my entire vulva, and it was nice that I didn't have to worry about it running down my bum when in bed. However, I have been applying YES WB to the top part of my vulva and letting it run down the rest of my skin so I didn't have to do a lot of rubbing or anything else irritating (doesn't take much YES WB to use it this way). You can't do this with YES VM. It just sits there in a gel glob unless you rub it in. If touching my skin didn't set off a flare up for me, I would probably say that I would appreciate the thicker formula, but for what I need right now, it requires too much fiddling to make it go where I need it.

Also, I was hoping that YES VM wouldn't cause dried "flakes" in my hairline like the YES WB, but unfortunately it does. It seems to be less, but I'm sure that's because it is too thick to move everywhere the YES WB can.

Since it hasn't caused any extreme reactions so far, I'd say I'm willing to keep using it

Just an update on the YES VM...

I can't speak to how well it moisturizes compared to YES WB, but I do have a complaint for those who may be wanting to use it on vulvar skin. After having it on for a while, it turns white and almost sticky. I thought I was having horrible discharge, but I've now realized it happens every time I use YES VM.

It makes such a mess that I'm probably not going to keep using it for now. Not sure how it behaves if used vaginally, but I sure hope it doesn't create a white fallout like RepHresh (thought the website said it didn't do that but who knows).

sorry, you had such a problem. I have never had that problem. No whiteness. It just dries up and never had a problem with stickyness. I am referred to Yes, water based. I wouldn't use anything else, at least I haven't found anything else that works so well and feels so natural.

It's the YES VM that's causing the issue, not the YES WB. The only real negative about YES WB is that it can dry in flakes in the hairline.

Haven't heard of Yes VM, what is that. I haven't had any problems with flaking with the WB.

YES VM is their new vaginal moisturizer.

Will have to check it out.