How can the quality of baby silicone products be guaranteed?

With the advancement of technology and the rapid economic development, in recent years, silicone has been increasingly widely used in various industries. Especially in the fields of mother and baby products and children's items, it has replaced plastic and glass materials. It is healthy, environmentally friendly, non-toxic, and odorless. Food-grade silicone can be used for baby bottles, rubber toys, and other items. Medical-grade silicone can be implanted into the human body and has biocompatibility. The excellent properties of silicone make it applicable in all aspects of our lives.

1. Feel it and check the function

1.1. Silicone is a material with a feeling similar to human skin. A good baby silicone product should first have a good feel. Let's take the baby silicone feeding bottle as an example. When feeding the baby, the baby's cute little hands hold the bottle, and the bottle gives the baby a touch sensation just like a mother's loving caress. After the baby is born and leaves the original growth environment, the baby lacks a sense of security. Some babies often cry non-stop, leaving us, new parents, at a loss. However, the baby silicone products with a mother-like touch give the baby this sense of security. Therefore, good baby silicone products are beneficial to the development of the baby in all aspects. This is something that other material feeding bottles cannot compare to.

1.2. The silicone baby bottle should be easy to use. The assembly and disassembly should be convenient, and it should be universal, allowing for interchangeable use with other nipples and bottles. Currently, some silicone baby bottles are not practical to disassemble and dismantle. Install slots and engraved patterns between the silicone and the middle plastic cover. The most important aspect of a baby bottle is its practicality and convenience.

2. Performance and material of baby silicone products

2.1. If the surface of the genuine silicone rubber has not undergone special treatment, it will feel relatively smooth when touched by hand, because there will be a layer of oily substance on the surface.

2.2. The fake silicone rubber is prone to deformation, while the genuine silicone rubber has excellent elasticity and will not deform easily after being stretched and released.

2.3. The good silicone has no odor and does not soften or change color when heated.

2.4. Cut a small piece of the silicone and burn it. After burning, the edge of the fake silicone wristband turns black. The fake silicone burns with bright flames, emitting black smoke and having a foul smell. However, the real silicone, regardless of its color, has a white edge when burned and the remaining residue after burning is powder. The real silicone wristband burns like carbon, with uniform flames, emitting white smoke and no odor.

2.5. Observe the elasticity recovery of the silicone products. High-quality silicone products have excellent elasticity recovery. The silicone material itself has good wear resistance, so the surface of silicone products has the ability to resist wear. Generally speaking, high-quality silicone products will not lose the surface text, color, etc. due to external factors. On the contrary, the text, characters, logos on the surface of inferior silicone products are more likely to fall off. High-quality silicone products have bright colors. After special processing, the surface is not sticky, has no odor, is soft and has a good feel.

2.6. Silicone products have high tensile strength and a long service life, and are not easily affected by external environmental factors. Generally speaking, high-quality silicone products are less likely to develop cracks during the tearing process, while inferior silicone products are prone to cracking. Inferior silicone products will rapidly expand and crack at the crack site when subjected to force.

2.7. When the silicone product is subjected to alternating stress (or strain), the phenomenon where the structure and function of the material change is called fatigue. As the fatigue process progresses, the situation that causes the silicone product to deteriorate is called fatigue damage. Therefore, fatigue resistance is also one of the methods to distinguish the quality of the silicone product.