The Amour Hot Love Massage Mitts are two small, heat-activated gel pads that provide heat for massages. Each one is about three inches across, and they are about 1/3 of an inch thick. The gel is liquid-y until activated, and then it turns more crystal-like. One of the pads says "Kisses" on it while the other says "Hugs", and both of them come in a small plastic bag when you receive them. Each one heats up to about 54 degrees Celcius.

Believe it or not, I've never actually owned one of these types of items before. I know that EF carries quite a few, but I've never really seen much of a need. When my boyfriend mentioned wanting to purchase some of the "not adult" ones at the store, though, as they actually worked, I decided I wanted to try one off of the site and support the adult community instead of our local store.

And they're neat!

They basically work in a couple easy steps. You take one out, you snap the disk in the center of the gel-like pad, and within about a minute, the gel crystalizes to become a really firm gel and it produces heat. It's not hot enough for burn, but it's warm enough to give that "mmmm" sensation and make you want to snuggle up with it. The disk in the center is really, really easy to snap, so you don't have to fight with it, and the warmth only takes about a minute to start up which is great. The warmth from the Amour Hot Love heating pad then lasts about 45 minutes.

It gets warm really quickly, but it stops getting warmer after the initial one minute. It stays really, really warm for about twenty minutes, and then it gets cooler around the 30 minute mark. My boyfriend thinks that, since it was a sex toy, they designed the toy to be short and intense instead of long-lasting warmth.

This item is reusable, but it does take some effort to reuse it. You just have to put it back into boiling water for about ten minutes in order to turn the pad to liquid all over again. Some people have recommended not letting it touch the pan while boiling, and I put a strainer inside of the pot to hold the pad from touching the pan. Once you take it out and the gel is liquidified again, you can use it again for more warmth!

The neat thing about this is that it doesn't have to be just a "sex" product. These really work better than the hand-warming pads you can purchase in-stores, so if you want, just slip this into your pocket and warm up your hands during the winter. As it'll be in your pocket anyway, the words won't make a difference.

For sex uses, it works pretty well. The plastic-type material that it is made out of is slightly grippy, so you want to make sure to use massage oil or lubricant if you want this warm packet to glide over the skin. The seams of the massage pad look like they will hold up okay, but do be careful about putting too much pressure as you wouldn't want the seams to break. This is something to keep in mind if you tend to do deep-tissue massages. Aside from that, though, you're good to go! There are two different pads (one that says "hugs" and one that says "kisses"), and you could definitely use both pads at the same time if you wanted to.

Overall, if you want a neat massage pad product that is going to heat up quickly, stay at a comfortably sensual warm temperature, and stay warm for a bit with non-sexual uses as well as sexual ones, the Amour Hot Love massagers work surprisingly well. These are going to be some of my favorite "toys" this winter!