Lemon's drop-inn

[DaystarNemesis]

Well, there's actually a lot of different kinds of plastics! It's a very broad term. Some break down a lot easier than others. However, most plastics get into you by eating things prone to eating tiny plastic pieces known as microplastics, like fish. What happens with most animals (humans included) is when the body doesn't know what to do with it and can't digest it, it stores it in a safely isolated part. They can still hurt you there, hermit crabs get notably docile to the point of not even wanting to fight over mates, for example, most organisms just don't (yet) know how to safely be rid of them. And then we eat them, not even knowing they're there, and the process multiplies.
As far as the leaching thing, and the other way you get plastic in you, is that a lot of cheap plastic breaks down when exposed to heat. This leaches poison into the food in the form of fumes, or actually very tiny pieces of the container being brittle enough to break off into the food.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

Makes me not want to eat or drink!

I have been trying to move towards glass or stainless steel for eating or storing with.
I am trying silicone items out but even the word screams chemicals to me.... that and the texture is just weird & I feel like I can't get it clean properly.

[DaystarNemesis]

Silicone is one of the few plastics (I'm not sure if it even counts as a plastic? Closer to a rubber.) that are absolutely chemically harmless to most organic creatures, specifically human. It's why it's used in surgical parts, like implants. It's due to how stable it is, which means it doesn't really react to much, except itself, and things like it, and even that takes a lot of effort. Try boiling and/or baking your silicone! That should help loosen the grip the food has on it. Make sure you're using the proper temperature for your grade of silicone, though. It won't hurt you, but it might fall apart or crack if you heat it too much too quickly.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

I should probably research it all better ... it certainly sounds like you are! I am impressed!

I didn't think about boiling the silicone items, I thought that might make it too soft... might help to clean the baking sheets though! Thanks!

[DaystarNemesis]

I may have researched it before. I was thinking about a good skin for a poseable doll, and that was an option. An unfinished project, not even at that phase of design, yet. Still prototyping joints. I may have something workable, I just need to get it into a format I can actually send to a printing place.

[galled]

3d printing?

[npixelz]

Sounds fun

[Lemon Cheesecake]

Sounds very intricate. Do you make the wigs for the dolls too?

[DaystarNemesis]

Yes! There are many good printers in my general area, so I'm lucky in that respect. Shipping won't be too high, and neither will the turnaround.

Making toys and props is my passion, but funds are low. SOON, THOUGH, I MUST PERSERVERE; I can still plan in the meanwhile. My fingers aren't broken, and I have drawing supplies.

I have made wigs before, for other dolls. I need to know what skin method I'm going to do before I make many of those. The smartest way would be to have a replaceable magnetic hair scalp and root it ala fashion doll style, if I go the route of silicone skin.

[galled]

Ooo, what kind of props have you made/do you like to make?