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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message Icon:                                                                       Message: HTML is not enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. [QUOTE]Originally posted by NonStraightAnswers: [QB] You may be thinking of peroxide bleach, which isn't the same as hydrogen peroxide. Peroxide bleach also has ammonia (the stuff that makes glass cleaner stink), and I would definitely NOT recommend using it to clean anything being inserted anywhere. Hydrogen peroxide, however, is just water with an extra hydrogen atom. It works as a bleach on things that can "pick up" that extra hydrogen, which silicone can't, so there shouldn't be any "melting" issues. I certainly haven't experienced any so far and have been using it for almost a year. That being said, hydrogen peroxide does still kill bacteria, and while that's good for the cup, it's not good to mess with the normal balance in the vagina. That's why I use a very dilute solution of the stuff to clean the cup. The hydrogen peroxide generally sold in stores is a 3% solution (as opposed to the 12-15% included in peroxide bleach) and I dilute that way down - half of the small Lunette (about 8 ml) in a large glass of water. When hydrogen peroxide is exposed to light it breaks down into water and oxygen (that's why it's always sold in a dark bottle). At that low a concentration sitting out for a full day is enough for it to have done so pretty much completely, so by the time I take the cup out the only traces left on it are of water. [/QB][/QUOTE]

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