hi,

the other day i cleaned my silicone tantus toy by boiling some water in the kettle and then pouring it into a bowl (did this process twice to warm up the bowl so as not to lose too much heat due to cold bowl) i then placed the silicone toy in the water and left it. i accidentally left it in their for a good 20 minutes. the toy seems fine but just to be sure i thought i would check whether that could have done anything to the toy?

i assume that unlike constant boiling water, water from a kettle would begin to cool fairly quickly and within a few minutes would be not much warmer than a hot bath?

i ask this just because i have read of people saying not to leave the toy in constant boiling water for longer than 2-3 minutes... but realized this was a bit different as it was boiled water form a kettle that is no longer boiling once removed from the kettle... less

me again...

so i tried boiling my silicone toy; a tantus silk medium. i noticed it was a little tacky before hand... after boiling i noticed it seemed even more tacky to feel! alot more tacky than my other tantus toys... is this normal?

also, i read that the toy shouldnt touch the bottom of the pot? well even at full boil my toy didnt want to float instead it just rolled around on the bottom... i left it in for 5 minutes... could the toy have been damaged in anyway? less

I wash new toys, but generally don't bother with sterilizing them. They're new, and the manufacturer's quality control doesn't extend to testing each one in real life.

I sterilize when changing between anal and anything else and when changing people. Sometimes I boil, sometimes I bleach.

Make sure you thoroughly clean the toys before sterilizing, and then you can just use your regular pots. It's highly unlikely that there's anything on a cleaned toy that isn't also present in some level in food, and when done right sterilizing completely kills all microorganisms on the toy. less