(1) What is TPE
TPE (Thermoplastic Elastomer) is a thermoplastic elastomer material with the characteristics of high strength, high resilience, injection molding, a wide range of applications, environmental protection, non-toxicity and safety, and excellent colorability.
(2) What is silicone
Silicone is a highly active adsorption material, which is an amorphous substance, its chemical formula is mSiO2 nH2O; it does not react with any substance except strong alkali and hydrofluoric acid, insoluble in water and any solvent, non-toxic and tasteless, chemical Stable in nature.
Both TPE and silicone are non-toxic materials.
(3) About the grade of TPE
TPE is classified into 4 grades of materials;
â‘ Food grade: with EU SGS material verification report, report result: qualified, test purpose: doll material toxicity test report, whether it is qualified.
â‘¡Industrial grade: long-term use, harmful to human body, common skin disease (cannot pass the formal test).
â‘¢Returning grade: Usually, scrapped and unsellable dolls are disassembled and thrown into the furnace to be remade. This material has a characteristic. Even if it is made of TPE, the most common softness, if it is not softened, it will emit thorns. Nasal odor.
â‘£Recycling and cleaning level: Buy the dolls recovered from the recycling station back to the manufacturer, wash them, touch up makeup, and resell them after de-dying.
If you want to know if the doll you are looking for is poisonous, just see if it has a formal relevant safety inspection report.
(4) The high-gloss statement about silicone
Many people have read too many so-called “popular science articles”, thinking that as long as it is silicone, it must be good. This sentence is like agreeing with “good-looking people generally do not go bad”. Where do you judge good or bad? ?
Now what else is pure material, just like tungsten steel made of tungsten element added to steel is stronger, and silicon element is added to make silicon steel more ductile, each manufacturer actually uses silicone as the basic material, In order to achieve the required softness, elasticity and design requirements, some other formulas will be added for synthesis, so your silicone doll is not 100% pure silicone, but synthetic silicone.
If there is a businessman who dares to advocate that their dolls are all silicone, you can ask him for relevant certificates.
In the famous market, good silicone dolls cost tens of thousands of dollars, because the price of silicone materials is very expensive.
If someone sells low prices while blowing silicone, then he is either doing charity or a profiteer.
(5) Issues concerning environmental protection
The waste of silicone is not recyclable, but TPE is recyclable.
Recyclable here does not mean that anyone can recycle and redo. Remodeling and listing requires a formal test report.
(6) Which is more expensive, silicone or TPE?
That must be silicone more expensive.
Compared with TPE sex dolls, high-purity silicone sex dolls feel closer to real people.