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everyone told me lube would help my dryness. i trusted them. then i flipped my bottle around to read the ingredients and they almost made me sick.

My doctor recommended me these lubes. I trusted him for years, but once I realized nothing was working, I researched the ingredients and I felt sick. Two years of putting THIS inside my body? Then I researched what actually works, and it's not something you apply like lube.

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By Sharon H., 52

Last Updated Mar 24, 2026

I want to tell you about a moment I had in my bathroom that honestly still makes me angry.

 

I was sitting on the edge of my bathtub at around 11 PM. My husband was already asleep. We tried having sex earlier and again, it was awful. It was super dry and painful even though we used lube. Everyone said this is the "good" stuff. It cost me $38 and promised it was "pH-balanced" and "gynecologist approved."

 

Five minutes in and I was dry again. We decided to stop and he said it was fine but I could see it in his face that it wasn't.

 

So, I'm sitting on the tub, and I look over at the bottle of lube on the counter. I thought to myself why in the world is it not working. For the first time in two years of using this stuff, I decide to turn it around and read the back.

 

My stomach dropped when I realised what was in it and what I had been putting in my body.

what i found on the back of my lube

The first ingredient I googled was glycerin. Do you want to know what came up? It feeds yeast. It literally causes yeast infections. I've been having yeast infections on and off for a year and a half and the thing I was putting inside my body to HELP was one of the things CAUSING it.

 

I felt like throwing up.

 

Then I googled propylene glycol. You know what else it's used in? Antifreeze and industrial solvents. I'm not making this up. I've been applying an ingredient found in antifreeze inside the most sensitive part of my body. Every week for two years.

 

Then parabens. Synthetic hormone disruptors, even though my whole problem was that my hormones dropped and my tissue was thinning. This product was pumping fake hormone disruptors into me?

 

I sat there on my bathtub and I just stared at this bottle that I'd trusted for two years. That my DOCTOR recommended. That cost me $38. And I thought what the hell have I been doing to myself?

 

I checked the other lube. The "organic" one from the fancy shop downtown. Better, but still glycerin, it still dried out in minutes and didn't fix anything real.

 

I checked the vaginal moisturizer my doctor prescribed. Glycerin. AGAIN. Were they doing this on purpose?

then i realized the bigger problem

But here's the thing that really got to me. Even if I found a perfect lube, zero bad ingredients, totally clean, gentle, whatever, it still wouldn't have fixed my actual problem.

 

And I know that now because I spent another hour that night down the rabbit hole and something finally clicked.

 

The lube wasn't failing because of the ingredients. I mean yes, the ingredients were making things WORSE, causing infections, irritation, all of that. But even a perfect lube would have dried up in five minutes. Because the problem isn't on the surface.

 

My tissue was thinning from the inside. Like the actual walls inside me were getting thinner and more fragile because my estrogen dropped. And when the tissue is that thin, it can't hold onto moisture. Doesn't matter what you put on it. It's like pouring water into a cracked cup. It just runs right through.

 

That's why I'd been reapplying every five minutes and why nothing lasted.

 

No lube on earth fixes a cracked cup. You have to fix the cup itself.

 

And suddenly I was furious at every doctor, every friend and every product that told me to "just try a different lube." None of them were fixing the real proble. They were all just selling me different brands of water to pour into it.

what i found instead

After that night I was done listening to people. Done listening to friends who said to try their favorite lube and done with doctors who seemed like were just trying to make more money from me.

 

I wanted to see actual proof in the products. Real studies that happened. Not any promises but real research.

 

So I went looking. And at like 2 AM, because apparently that's when all the best discoveries happen when you're a menopausal woman who can't sleep, I found a clinical study.

 

It seemed like the real deal. 116 postmenopausal women, double-blind. placebo-controlled for three months. They tested something called omega-7 from a berry called sea buckthorn.

 

The results seemed amazing. The women taking it didn't just get temporary moisture. Their tissue actually got healthier, thicker and the structure itself improved. Not surface moisture, but the actual tissue started to rebuild itself.

 

They were fixing the cup from the inside.

 

And then I started finding women on Reddit and menopause forums who'd been talking about this for years:

"No lube and zero discomfort." I read that line three times. After two years of the mess. and constantly reapplying, cleaning up and the mood-killing pauses, the idea of just... mot putting anything on? Not applying anything or inserting anything. Just eating something and being done?

 

I needed to try this.

what i switched to

I found a product called Nourish, which were gummies with sea buckthorn omega-7 at the clinical dose in them. They tasted like orange and you took three a day.

 

I'm going to be honest, when I saw "gummies" I almost closed the tab. After everything I'd been through? After the failed lubes, the infections from bad ingredients, the $38 organic whatever? You're telling me the answer is a GUMMY?

 

But I looked at the ingredients. Actually looked, because that's who I am now, the woman who reads the back of everything.

 

No glycerin. No propylene glycol. No parabens. No synthetic fragrance. Nothing I couldn't pronounce. Nothing that made my stomach turn.

 

And they had a 90-day money-back guarantee. So I thought, fine. Worst case I eat some orange gummies for three months and get my money back. I've wasted more on lubes that gave me yeast infections.

what changed 

🗓️ Week 2

The constant background irritation, the thing I'd been living with for so long I forgot it wasn't normal, started to ease. I wasn't reaching for products every morning just to feel okay. I was okay sitting for longer periods of time and actually forgot about it at times.

🗓️ Week 4

I was in the shower and I realized something. I wasn't bracing. You know what I mean? Every time I showered for the past two years I'd tense up because the water hitting me down there would sting. It was so automatic that I got used to it always happening. But one day in week four, I wasn't doing it. I just stood there under the water like a normal person. And I thought oh my god, is this what normal feels like? I'd forgotten.

🗓️ Week 6

My husband and I had sex for the first time in over a year and a half without any product involved. Nothing. No lube, no preparation, no stopping to reapply, no burning after.

 

I looked at the drawer in my bathroom afterward and it was filled with failed products, bottles of lube, moisturizers and creams. I thought I'm done with you.

 

I threw every single one of them out.

what other women are saying

Lauren T., 54

Verified Purchase

"I was starting to believe I was just broken."

"I tried everything: coconut oil, expensive lubricants, vaginal suppositories, even estrogen cream. Nothing lasted. Within three weeks of taking Nourish, the itching disappeared. By month two, I could wear jeans again. By month three, my husband and I were intimate for the first time in over a year. I cried happy tears."

Donna J., 51

Verified Purchase

"Five years of doctors telling me to use more lube."

"My friend sent me a link and I thought, what the hell, one more try. Three weeks in, the itching stopped. Then one morning things just felt... different. Like my body was coming back. My husband says I seem like a completely different person. I feel like one."

Jasmine K., 52

Verified Purchase

"I initiated sex for the first time in three years."

"Around month four, I felt this warmth over me. Like my body calmed down again. I grabbed my husband and he looked at me like I was crazy. I cried afterward. This gave me my life back. My only regret is not starting sooner. I wasted two years thinking this was just my new normal. Don't make the same mistake I did."

go check your bottle

Look, I don't know what you're using right now. Maybe it's the same stuff I was using. Maybe you're dealing with the same infections I was dealing with. Maybe you're doing the same thing I did, reapplying every five minutes and wondering why nothing lasts.

 

Go flip your bottle around. Google the first three ingredients. I'm serious. Just do it tonight.

 

And then ask yourself the same question I asked myself sitting on my bathtub at 11 PM: why am I putting this inside my body when it doesn't even work?

 

The dryness isn't a lube problem. I know that now. I wish I'd known it two years and hundreds of dollars ago. The tissue is thinning from the inside and no amount of anything on the outside is going to fix that.

 

But three gummies a day? Something that actually reaches the tissue through my bloodstream and helps it rebuild?

 

That fixed it. For me. For thousands of women on Reddit who've been talking about this for years. And it might fix it for you too.

 

Nourish has a 90-day money-back guarantee. If nothing changes, you get every cent back. I almost used that guarantee. I'm glad I didn't have to.

 

I haven't bought a lubricant in four months. And honestly? I don't miss it. I don't miss the mess, the reapplying, the cleanup, the infections. None of it.

 

I just eat three gummies a day and live my life.

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