The Science of Sex: What's the Difference Between Silicone, Rubber and Silicone Rubber?

Actually, according to chemists, the ’silicone rubber’ in your Clone-A-Willy Kit (or any other silicone sex toy) is not technically considered a silicone, a rubber, OR a silicone rubber.
'Silicone Rubber' is a common lay-term for various polymeric organosilicon compounds. These are carbon-hydrogen-oxygen compounds that also contain elemental silicon. In fact, the term silicone itself is actually a misnomer. The suffix ‘one' is used by chemists to denote a substance with a double-bonded atom of oxygen in its backbone. When first discovered, 'silicone' was believed to have oxygen atoms double bonded to each silicon atom, but this is not true!
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'Silicone' can be defined as an inorganic polymer (contains many bonds), and is also technically incorrect, at least according to a chemist. The technically correct term for the various silicone rubbers you see in sex toys is polysiloxanes or polydimethylsiloxanes.
'Rubber' is an entirely different molecule altogether. It's actually a carbon-based polymer that’s harvested from trees in the form of latex. We'd never use latex to cast a penis. Latex is prone to easy degradation and deformation. Heat, oil, salts, metals, even air will degrade latex. Needless to say, your Clone-A-Willy Kit is completely latex and rubber-free!
Rest assured that Clone-A-Willy uses only platinum cure organosiloxanes, certified completely body-safe and non-reactive. Beware of some sex toys that claim to use 'Body safe silicone' but really use 'tin-cure silicone', which contains toxic elements and is NOT body safe.
Your finished Clone-A-Willy dildo is composed of a completely safe, stable molecule that is phthalate free, non porous, and will not degrade, deform, or leach chemicals, ever.