You can easily get a sex toys for 10 to 15 dollar. In the first place this looks like a good deal. But here is something you should consider.
Most of the cheap sex toys use cheap materials, like elastomers, PVC, jelly or whatever. All of them are cheap to produce and all of them are porous. The bacteria can hide here very good and so it is not a surprise that you can read all over the Internet that you should use a condom if you use cheap sex toys. If you share your sex toy you should do this in any case with any toy, but even if you do not share your sex toy, infections might occur again and again becauuse you could not clean your sex toy properly. In this case it makes a huge difference if you have a silicone toy, or if you use cheap sex toy that is porous and that will make it difficult for you to clean it.
Let’s do the math. You bought a porous cheap PVC sex toy. Now you have to use condoms with it because you cannot clean it properly. A pack of 12 normal condoms cost about 10 dollar. If you use your toy just 60 times with a condom, you have to add another 50 dollar for the condoms you bought. So within a short period of time your so called inexpensive toy will become more expensive than most of the luxury silicon toys. This example does not include cost for medical treatments.
What appeared to be a cheap offer, turns out to be pretty expensive.
At the moment some sex toy manufacturer use so called elastomers for their sex toys.
An elastomer is a polymer with the property of elasticity. The term, which is derived from elastic polymer, is often used interchangeably with the term rubber, and is preferred when referring to vulcanisates. (if you are really into chemicals look for here for details .)
Basically elastomers are a group of materials and rubber is one of them . So,l we are looking at a group of materials that are used in sex toys. I you think you will find all substances on the package and if you know all the different terms for the mixes that can be made, then go for it. But you could have a silicone-rubber mix and still find it under elastomer toy.
Unlike other sites on the web I do not dare to tell you that elastomer toys are free from anything. All I can say is that surely there is no silicon involved and surely it is much cheaper than silicon. Like always try to get some information on the website of the manufacturer. It is your health, so spend some time to figure it out.
For me it is just another good reason to produce my adult toys with 100% pure silione. This way my customers know what they get.
The toys that are made of acrylic glass and metal and do not contain phthatlates. Phthalates are chemicals that are used to soften rubber and other materials. Acrylic toys cannot be boiled in hot water.
If you are looking for a hard and not pliable sex toy then metal and acrylic glass might be a good choice.
There are plenty of brands on the market that will surely satisfy you.
Sex toys are made in different ways, using different materials. This article is about silicone rubber mixes.
Silicone rubber mix toys are totally different from pure silicone toys. They can contain as little as 10% silicone und are basically a cheap trick to let people think they would have a silicone toy in their hands. With growing customer concern about healthy sex toys, some manufacturers are trying to make use of the silicone toy hype. As long as 10% of the material is silicone you can call it a silicone toy.
A silicone mix or silicon rubber mix sex toy may also have a lot of other substances inside that nobody really knows. They may even contain phthalates. One thing we know is that, if you are looking for a silicone toy, this is not what you want..
And they are porous, with places for bacterial to hide, so the best way to keep them clean is to use a condom.
