Who should be using lube?
Lubricants and intimate moisturisers can enhance every woman’s sexual experience and men adore them too. However, many women have formed their habits in a time where lubricant was embarrassing. Or...
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Thrush Through Life: A Complete Guide to Yeast Infections
What is thrush? Vulvo vaginal candidiasis, otherwise known as thrush, can be recurrent, annoying, painful, upsetting and traumatising to women. It can make having sex uncomfortable, create irritating, smelly...
What is Bio-identical Oestrogen?
Bio-identical oestrogen refers to oestrogen hormone in the identical molecular form produced by the ovaries before menopause. We know that for many women, local vaginal oestrogen replacement is extremely...
Steamy Shower Sexpectations
Steamy shower sex scenes are a common fantasy. Mixing up where and how we have sex can be fun and exciting. But does the reality of shower sex meet your...
Having Sex to Get Pregnant; Try Our Protectility Lubricant
You know us as the founders of Ellechemy, and some of you may know Dr Raelia as your Doctor. We are also the hosts of Knocked Up, a podcast about Fertility...
What is Adenomyosis?
Adenomyosis is a common condition that many women develop over time. Like many conditions it occurs on a spectrum from mild and asymptomatic to troublesome and requiring treatment.Adenomyosis refers to...
Lube 101: The Basics
Curious about lube but not sure where to start? Here is the Ellechemy guide to help you understand the essentials of intimate lubricants, your new best friend in the bedroom Lube...
Top Tips from a Gynaecologist: Practising Self-Care During Menopause
Many aspects of self-care can be overlooked during menopause. Here are some recommendations for self-care flash-points women should pay more attention to. Self care is a broad term with aspects...
LOVERS becomes ELLECHEMY
Ellechemy is the rebirth of our intimate wellness brand (previously Lovers) Our mission: To create female focussed products that help women have better lives. Ellechemy [elle-chem-y] Pronoun: elle, she. Origin: Derived from...
Should I choose to have fragrance added to my prescription product?
Ellechemy offers the option of designing your prescription intimate moisturiser favourite formulation with or without fragrance. What fragrance do we use? You may choose to apply a natural geranium fragrance which...
MANAGING THRUSH AND CHOOSING THE RIGHT LUBE
Dr Raelia was recently invited as a guest expert on the Adore Beauty 'Beauty IQ' podcast to talk about Thrush. Vaginal thrush is a common imbalance of a woman’s natural...
What Makes Ellechemy's Formulae So Special?
Ellechemy's water based and elemental silicone formulae draw inspiration from high end luxury skin care and are made to your design from the highest quality sourced ingredients. Women are connoisseurs of...
What is Bacterial Vaginosis?
Bacterial Vaginosis (BV) is an infective disturbance of the vaginal microbiome. BV is caused by high levels of anaerobic bacteria in the vagina, such as Gardnerella vaginalis. The vaginal microbiota...
Equilibrium: How Our Thrush Preventing Formula Works
Ellechemy's Equilibrium formulation was designed to be a probiotic powerhouse, promoting vaginal bacterial harmony and working to ease symptoms of itch, burning, irritation and odour that can come on with recurrent...
Vulvas, Vaginas and the Golden Globes
The embroidery on Gillian Anderson's stunning Gabriela Hearst dress worn at the Golden Globes awards ceremony has brought up the age old question - vulvas vs vagina. We turned to...