The Foria Sex Oil Review I Wish I'd Had

I am not affiliated with Foria Wellness and have received no compensation for this review. I bought this product with my own money and I'm writing about it because it made a real difference in our marriage.

I have a habit of finding something that interests me, buying it, and presenting it to my wife before she knew it was coming. It's a pattern she knows well. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it sits on a shelf for a year before we figure out what we were doing wrong.

This is that story. 

How I Found It

I came across Foria the same way I've come across most of the things that have changed our intimate life through podcasts, in this case through Ashley Manta. If you read our cannabis post, you know Ashley is a sex educator who speaks and writes about the intentional use of cannabis to enhance intimacy. She mentioned Foria's Intimacy Sex Oil with CBD in one of her podcasts very early in our journey and described the benefits in a way that made me want to try it immediately.

It was not cheap. I bought it anyway. That was about three years ago. 

The First Attempt

I presented it to my wife the way I have presented other things in our marriage, without much preamble and without asking for her buy-in first. She rolled with it, as she often does, but looking back I think we could have avoided a lot of unnecessary friction if I had introduced the idea before introducing the product. A conversation first would have helped. I skipped that step.

We tried it. And we used it completely wrong.

We applied it the way you would use a traditional lubricant, right at the moment of intimacy, expecting it to do something immediately. It didn't do much. My wife was underwhelmed. I thought I had spent a significant amount of money on something that didn't work. The bottle went to the back of the shelf and stayed there.

It sat there silently for the better part of a year. I hadn't forgotten about it exactly, but I hadn't done anything about it either. It was one of those things that lives in the back of your mind without quite making it to the front. 

Ashley Manta, Round Two

One day I was driving home from work one afternoon, half listening to a podcast, when Ashley came up again. She was talking about Foria and describing how to use it properly. Nothing dramatic about the moment. Just something clicking into place on the way home.

The bottle was still on the shelf. I remembered it immediately.

This time she described not just the product but how to use it. And that's where everything changed.

The Intimacy Sex Oil is not a lubricant in the traditional sense. It's a topical CBD product designed to be applied twenty to thirty minutes before sex, not during. The idea is that the CBD works with your body's natural systems to increase blood flow, sensitivity, and natural lubrication before anything has even started. You're not using it as a substitute for arousal. You're using it to deepen it.

Ashley described it as a "pussy marinade." I'm a person who likes to cook. That metaphor landed immediately.

I went back to my wife. I admitted that we hadn't used it correctly the first time and suggested we try it again, this time the way it was actually intended. Our communication was in a different place by then, and the conversation was easier than it might have been a year earlier. She was hesitant — the first experience hadn't left a strong impression — but she agreed to try it again. We came back to it late last year. 

What Actually Happened

The difference was not subtle.

My wife was more naturally lubricated than we have experienced in our marriage. The sensitivity and response I was seeing were at a level that genuinely surprised both of us. What followed was one of the more connected and sensual experiences we have had together. I was able to pleasure her more deeply, more attentively, with more response than I had been able to before.

We have a habit of doing a post-game debrief after experiences like this, talking through what worked, what we noticed, what we want to remember. In that debrief my wife acknowledged how good it had made her feel. That it was, in her words, magic.

She was right. 

What It Looks Like Now

The Foria Intimacy Sex Oil has become a regular part of our lovemaking. Not every time, but often enough that it has a permanent place on the nightstand rather than the back of a shelf. Most importantly, my wife asks to use it. She likes for me to apply it, which in itself is a turn on.

The Foria Intimacy Sex Oil with CBD is what we use. Worth every penny. Worth the year it spent on the shelf while we figured out what we were doing.

For couples dealing with dryness or discomfort that comes with age, this product has an impressive body of positive reviews addressing exactly that. That's not our situation, but it's worth noting for anyone reading this who is navigating those changes. If that's something you're navigating, the reviews suggest it works well for that too. 

What I'd Tell You to Do Differently

Have the conversation before you buy the product. I've made this mistake more than once, the vibrator, this oil, and the pattern is the same every time. Skipping the conversation creates friction that the product then has to overcome. It doesn't have to be that way.

Buy it together or introduce the idea first. Let your partner have a say in whether they want to try something before it arrives in your bedroom. That buy-in changes the dynamic of the first experience. My wife's willingness to come back to something that hadn't worked the first time was only possible because our communication was in a different place by then and she trusted my read on it.

The product is good. The conversation before the product is better.

If this resonates with you, we put together a free guide called The Five Intimacy Truths Nobody Tells Long Married Couples. It's a good place to start.