Inspired by this question on our Facebook Fan Page about the safety of glass toys and concerns with the possibility of lead in the glass, I decided to do some digging into how safe our glass toys are and how you can tell that the toys you are buying are good for you. I enlisted my trusty friends Destin, who is in Customer Service, and Phoebe, who is our Buyer, to see if we could find out more. Here is a brief overview of what we have learned. Check back next week for the complete interview with the manufacturer of our lovely Candy Colored Glass Dildos, Standard Glass.
Destin writes,"We here at Babeland are used to a wide variety of considerations around product safety so when one of our customers asked us about the lead levels in our glass toys we were excited to know more ourselves! The fine folks who hand make our Candy Colored Dildo were gracious enough to answer even our most nitpicky questions. What we found is that lead can be a common ingredient in everything from the highest end to the least expensive glass products. It lowers the melting point, makes certain cutting techniques work better and adds sparkle to the glass, amongst other things. Often lead is one of the ingredients in proprietary blends used to make all those pretty colors of glass you see in the world and possibly even the colors you see inside some of our toys.� The best news of all is that every one of our glass toy offerings is designed so that you are completely safe from any lead exposure. All of our glass toy offerings are made with a surface layer of either soda-lime glass, or Pyrex, neither of which contains lead. Rock on rock hard and lead free!"Make sure you check back in the coming weeks for the full interview from Standard Glass and more great info about making sure your toys are the safest they can be.
