How to Clean Your Yoni Egg: The Complete Guide

Your vaginal canal is one of the most absorbent, responsive parts of your body. That’s what makes yoni egg practices so powerful, and why cleanliness really matters.

Keeping your egg clean is simple, empowering, and easy to get the hang of.

This guide walks you through it step by step, how to check your egg for chips or cracks, how to wash it safely (especially if it’s drilled), and how to store it in a way that keeps it ready for your next practice. We also share how to cleanse your egg energetically.

Why It’s Important to Clean Your Yoni Egg Properly

Hygiene and Safety

Your vagina breathes, responds, contracts, and absorbs, and it’s built to protect you. When you insert a yoni egg, you’re bypassing several natural defense systems. If what you’re inserting carries bacteria, soap residue, or even your own dried fluids from a previous use, your body will react. That might look like discharge changes, irritation, or itching.

The vaginal flora is a sensitive, finely balanced ecosystem made up of good bacteria (mainly lactobacilli) that keep yeast and pathogens in check. When you insert an egg that hasn’t been thoroughly cleaned, you’re introducing external bacteria into that closed system.

If your egg is drilled for string use, it just needs extra attention during cleaning. The tiny hole can hold onto residue, so a few extra seconds of rinsing or soaking makes a big difference.

Cleaning your egg involves small, supportive acts that help your body feel safe and make your practice more nourishing over time. 

Physically, you must:

• Use warm (NOT boiling) water and pH-safe soap after each use, no perfumes, no detergents.

• Clean drilled holes using a clean interdental brush, floss, or string.

• Always dry fully before storage, moisture invites bacterial growth.

• Store your egg in a clean pouch, not a drawer that doubles as a dust trap.

 Energetic Cleansing

When you use your egg during a yoni egg practice, you’re imprinting it with emotion, memory, intention, and sensation. When you cry during practice, when you climax with your egg inside, when you feel a memory surface, that’s not just happening in your mind, it’s being recorded somatically. The yoni holds memory, and the egg becomes a carrier of it. That’s why, sometimes, women report reaching for their egg and feeling a sudden resistance or avoidance. The egg is full of your last imprint.

Energetic cleansing is not optional if you’re doing emotional work, ritual, meditation, clearing trauma, softening numbness, or reconnecting to pleasure. Towards the end of this article we dive deeper into energetic cleansing methods.

Yoni Egg Cleaning Step-by-Step Guide

Step 1: Inspect Your Yoni Egg

The vaginal canal is lined with mucous membranes that are highly sensitive and prone to microtears, especially when met with rough or damaged surfaces. Even a tiny chip or hairline crack in the crystal can create sharp edges that you may not feel at first, but your tissue will. 

Inner cracks are a normal characteristic of some stones, but it is still important to check for any deep outer cracks that could indicate potential damage.

Cracks also weaken the structural integrity of the egg. Over time, a compromised egg can fracture further during use, especially under internal pressure.

How to Do It:

Hold your egg up to natural light and look closely.

Rotate it slowly in your hands. Check for any lines, rough patches, or changes in texture that weren’t there before. Run your fingers over the surface, your skin will often pick up on flaws faster than your eyes.

If you use a drilled egg, pay special attention to the string hole. This area is more fragile and can sometimes chip without you noticing.

Do this before every use, especially if it’s been stored, transported, or accidentally knocked around.

It takes 30 seconds, but it gives you peace of mind.

Here’s what to look out for during inspection:

• Surface cracks or spiderweb-like lines in the stone, especially when held up to natural light.

• Chips or rough spots around the edges, especially near the drilled hole, where the crystal is more fragile. Run your finger along the hole, any sharpness or irregularity means it’s no longer safe for internal use

• Cloudy patches or discoloration that weren’t there before. This can be a sign of internal stress within the crystal, especially if it’s been dropped or exposed to sudden temperature changes.

• Loose sediment, crumbling, or flaking, particularly in softer stones like rose quartz or amethyst. If the crystal begins to shed or crumble, it’s no longer structurally stable.

If your egg shows any of these signs, retire it from internal use immediately. You can still keep it as a sacred object, on your altar, in meditation, or for external energy healing.

Step 2: Physically Clean Your Yoni Egg

Start by rinsing the egg under warm running water. Use your fingertips to gently rub the surface. The warmth helps loosen any natural fluids or residue from use. Avoid using anything abrasive like metal wool sponges, because even fine scratches on the surface of a stone can create tiny crevices where bacteria hide.

Next, use a mild soap, preferably unscented. Lather the soap in your hands, not directly on the egg, and gently wash it. Skip the fragrant soaps, dyes, or anything marketed as antibacterial, those can leave behind residue that disrupts your vaginal microbiome and leads to dryness, itchiness, or discomfort during your next session. Once you’ve washed the egg, rinse it thoroughly with warm water. You should feel no soapy film left behind.

Dry the egg with a clean towel, but don’t stop there, let it air-dry completely before storing. Your egg should be fully dry before going back into a pouch, especially if it’s fabric.

Store your egg somewhere clean, breathable, and private. Not in your makeup drawer, not next to your hairbrush, not loose in a purse. The space where you keep your egg matters just as much as how you use it, it should feel intentional, not forgotten.

What If Your Egg Is Drilled?

Drilled yoni eggs need more attention because that small hole can hold fluids or moisture, and you can’t see what’s trapped inside. If you haven’t used or cleaned your egg in a while, soak the egg in warm, soapy water for 10 minutes. Then, use your yoni egg string, or a clean piece of unwaxed dental floss, to thread through the hole. Add a bit of soap to the string and gently work it back and forth to dislodge any residue.

Afterward, rinse both the egg and string under warm water. No soap should remain inside the hole. Once rinsed, let the egg stand to air dry with the hole exposed to the air, not lying flat where moisture might stay inside.

Never store a drilled egg damp. 

Disinfecting Tips

If you’d like to take it a step further, you can soak your egg in warm water and add a few drops of tea tree oil or a splash of apple cider vinegar to the water. Both have natural cleansing properties that help disinfect without relying on harsh chemicals.

Never boil your yoni egg.

Even if it looks solid, extreme heat can create tiny cracks within the crystal, making it unsafe for internal use. Stick to warm water instead. Also avoid chemical cleaners, scented soaps, or anything that leaves behind residue. These products may seem harmless, but they can disrupt your body’s natural environment and interfere with the benefits of your yoni egg practice.

Step 3: Safe Storage Tips

Once your egg is clean and fully dry, store it in a soft pouch, like the one that comes with every YoniEgg.com yoni egg order. How you store it matters just as much as how you use it. This is about keeping your egg free from dust, moisture, and bacteria that can accumulate on surfaces over time.

Always store your egg in a soft, breathable pouch. This protects the surface of the crystal from scratches and prevents it from coming into contact with contaminants like residue or dust from drawers and countertops. Avoid plastic containers or sealed bags, even if the egg felt dry when you put it away.

Your yoni egg is a vaginal tool, meaning any residue on the surface can be introduced directly into your body. That’s why it’s important not to toss it in with your skincare products, leave it out in the open, store it loose in a purse or bathroom drawer. Consider using a yoni egg string for safer handling. 

Energetic Yoni Egg Cleansing

Full Moon Ritual

The full moon exerts gravitational pull strong enough to move oceans. It doesn’t just “influence energy”, it literally pulls water within and around the human body. Just like it influences amniotic fluid, breast milk, menstrual bleeding, and fluid pressure in joints and cells, it can affect the crystalline matrix of your stone.

Most yoni eggs are made from minerals with piezoelectric or crystalline structures. These materials respond to environmental charge, including electromagnetic shifts like those created by the full moon. When exposed to strong lunar light, the molecular tension held in the stone can begin to release. This process helps to cleanse the egg energetically, removing any accumulated negative energies. In effect, the egg lets go structurally.

This is why full moon exposure gives your egg a reset window, allowing it to release stored density, so the next time it meets your body, it’s not carrying everything from the last time.

How to Do It

1. Physical Cleanse: Never put an egg in moonlight if it hasn’t been physically cleaned. Energetic release means nothing if bacteria is still clinging to the surface. Read the cleaning your yoni egg section above  for detailed instructions to physically cleanse your egg.

2. Choose Your Placement: Find a place where the moonlight hits directly. A clean plate or folded cloth on a windowsill, balcony, or outdoor ledge works best. Avoid plastic containers or enclosed jars.

3. Set the Release: This is the part most people skip, and it’s the most important. Hold your egg in your palm before placing it down, and clearly speak your intention for wanting to clear the egg.

4. Let It Sit Overnight: Leave the egg in full view of the moon overnight. No need to stay awake or monitor it. In the morning, bring it inside. Wipe it clean, let it dry again, and store it in a clean cloth pouch.

Smoke Cleansing

Sage and palo santo have been used for centuries in purification rituals, because smoke alters the ionic composition of the air, neutralizing bacteria and shifting energetic fields. When you pass your yoni egg through sacred smoke, you're performing a ritual that exposes the crystal to charged particles that can help dislodge stored emotional or energetic residue.

How to Do It

1. Start with Physical Cleanliness: Always clean your yoni egg physically before any energetic cleanse. Smoke won’t clear bacteria or fluids, refer to the cleaning section above for full steps.

2. Prepare Your Tools: Use only ethically sourced palo santo or sage. Light the bundle and let the flame burn for 15–30 seconds before blowing it out to create a steady stream of smoke.

3. Pass Through Smoke with Intention: Hold the egg carefully and slowly pass it through the smoke. Rotate it gently to expose all sides. Don’t rush. Let the smoke wrap around the crystal like a soft veil.

4. Anchor the Reset: As you do this, speak (or internally focus on) what you're asking the egg to release, fear, tension, emotional charge. Set a clear boundary that this session marks the end of holding, and the beginning of readiness.

5. Extinguish Safely: When complete, extinguish your bundle in a fire-safe bowl or sand. Let your egg rest before storing it again in its clean pouch.

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