Platinum Silicone Sex Toys: What 39 Makers Say About Their Silicone

The Short Answer

Platinum-curedPlatinum-cure siliconeSilicone set with a platinum catalyst instead of tin. It cures cleaner, with nothing left over, and it's the claim to look for on a silicone toy. More in the glossary is the silicone claim I look for on a toy that goes inside me, so I went and read what makers actually say about their own silicone. On October 31, 2026 I read the pages of 42 makers, and 39 of them could be read.

Eighteen use the word platinum somewhere. Twelve say it about everything they make, and almost all of those are dildo makers: Bad Dragon, Vixen, Mr Hankey's, Tantus, Primal Hardwere, SquarePeg and a handful of smaller shops. Six say it only about one line or one toy.

The big vibrator brands don't say platinum. Ten makers, among them Fun Factory, Dame, Womanizer and Satisfyer, say medical-gradeMedical-grade siliconeSilicone that passed tests for medical devices. On a toy listing it's a claim unless the maker shows the papers, and it doesn't say how the silicone was cured. More in the glossary. Eleven, among them LELO and Lovense, say body-safe siliconeBody-safe siliconePure silicone with no fillers. It's nonporous, so it cleans completely, and "platinum-cured" on the listing is the best sign you're getting the real thing. More in the glossary and nothing more specific. That doesn't make their toys unsafe. It means the cure is the one thing they don't tell you.

Four makers post any lab or compliance paperwork, and none of the pages we read in it tests which catalyst cured the silicone. On every page here, the cure rests on the maker's word.

What Platinum-Cured Means

Silicone starts as a liquid or a putty and is cured into rubber with a catalyst. Smooth-On, which sells both kinds and which two of the makers below name as their supplier, says silicones cure with either a platinum catalyst or a tin catalyst, and that platinum-cure is the more expensive kind.

Smooth-On also says the independent lab that certified its platinum silicones as skin safe tested tin-cured silicones too, and no tin-cured formulation passed. That certification is a skin irritation test of the cured rubber. It says nothing about wearing it inside you, and no lab test I found does.

"Medical-grade" is a different claim. The medical silicone supplier NuSil says most of the silicone rubber it sells for medical devices comes either peroxide-cured or platinum-cured, that peroxide often leaves byproducts a post-cure has to remove, and that platinum leaves none. So a toy that says medical-grade hasn't told you its cure. Mr Hankey's goes further. Its FAQ says that, as far as it knows, no toy maker uses true medical-grade silicone, the kind that can be implanted, and that its own isn't either.

The byproducts are why people care. A 2022 study found breakdown products of a peroxide used to cure silicone rubber in the blood and urine of silicone factory workers. The study says that peroxide breaks down into three PCBs, among other things, as it cures. That's workers at the factory, not people using a finished toy, and it covers one peroxide. Tin compounds are watched too. The EU has restricted dibutyltin and dioctyltin compounds in many consumer products since 2012, and Mr Hankey's posted report tests for those organotins.

None of that makes a toy that only says body-safe dangerous. It's why platinum-cured is the most specific claim a maker can make, and why I'd rather see it in writing on a toy I'll use for years.

Platinum on Everything

Twelve makers say their silicone is platinum on everything they make. Eleven of them use the word cure or cured somewhere, and Vixen says "platinum silicone".

Even here the product pages don't always repeat it. Tantus says platinum-cured in its FAQ, but none of the 316 listings in its store uses the word. SquarePeg's best-known SuperSoft toys say "own SuperSoft silicone blend". Uberrime and Pleasure Forge are the two that name their supplier, Smooth-On, and Uberrime is the only maker here whose own pages explain peroxide and tin curing.

Platinum on Some Lines

Six makers use the word on one line or one toy and something vaguer everywhere else.

We-Vibe is the interesting one. Its FAQ says the Touch is "medical-grade silicone that is platinum-cured", and nothing else we read on its site says platinum. New York Toy Collective says platinum on the Carter and the Sam STP, while the Shilo, its best-known toy, says body-safe triple-density silicone. b-Vibe hedges with "Often called platinum-cured".

Medical-Grade, No Platinum

Ten makers say medical-grade and never platinum, many of the vibrator and air-pulseAir-pulse toysInstead of vibrating against the clitoris, these pulse air around it through a small soft nozzle. Womanizer invented the idea, and Satisfyer made it cheap. More in the glossary brands among them.

Satisfyer says medical-grade on many product pages and "body-friendly silicone" in its FAQ. Womanizer says medical-grade about the heads, the part that touches you, and body-safe silicone in its specs. Dame says it about every vibrator except the Zee, which is ABS plastic, and says so itself.

Body-Safe and Nothing More

Eleven makers say body-safe, 100% or premium silicone and stop there.

LELO is the biggest name here. It calls its silicone "specially engineered body-safe silicone" and says it meets ISO 3533, the sex toy safety standard, without showing a certificate. Lovehoney says it helped write that standard. Lovense says "100% pure body-safe silicone". None of them says platinum or medical-grade.

Doc Johnson has "Platinum Premium Silicone" as a collection name, and the toy in it says "health grade silicone". CalExotics sells two products with Platinum in the name, and neither is silicone. A word in a product name is not a material claim.

Three makers couldn't be read at all. Blush's site wouldn't load in any browser or tool, Twisted Beast's site said it was under construction, and Damn Average's domain is parked.

Who Shows Lab Papers

Four of the 39 post any paperwork. Mr Hankey's FAQ links a 26-page PDF. It holds a 2019 report on its "Platinum Silicone Formulation" that passes the California and EU tests for lead, cadmium, organotin, PAHs and phthalatesPhthalatesSofteners used in PVC and jelly toys, linked to hormone disruption. Silicone, glass, stainless steel and ABS plastic don't contain them. More in the glossary, plus skin irritation and sensitization reports from 2016 and 2020. Nothosaur shows two SGS reports from September 2023 on one black sample, an EU RoHS test and a REACH screen for substances of very high concern, both passed. Svakom posts CE and RoHS certificates for each product, and OhMiBod posts declarations of conformity it issued itself.

None of the pages we read in them names or tests the cure. Uberrime and Pleasure Forge point to their supplier's skin-safe certification instead, which Smooth-On's own list describes as an OECD 439 skin irritation test. Tantus says outside labs test the toys it has made elsewhere for organotins and phthalates, and it posts nothing. LELO says it meets ISO 3533 and shows no certificate.

So when a maker says platinum-cured, you're taking its word. The ones that post test results at least let you see what was tested.

How to Check Your Own Toy

Read the maker's own page, not a store's. Store listings add words the maker never used. One store lists dozens of Blush toys as platinum-cured, and Blush's own site wouldn't load for me to check.

Look for the cure, not the grade. "Platinum-cured" or "platinum cure" names the catalyst. "Medical-grade" and "body-safe" don't, as NuSil's own paper shows.

Don't count names. "Platinum" in a product or collection name is branding, as the PVC beads above show.

Ask for papers, and read what they test. Lead, phthalates and organotins are worth testing for. None of the reports here tests the cure.

Don't bother with home tests. No drop of lube, flame or sniff tells you which catalyst cured a toy. Our body-safe materials guide covers what you can judge yourself, and what the makers say about silicone lube is the other question people ask about their silicone.

How I Did This

I read each maker's own site on October 31, 2026: its store, FAQ, help center, material pages and product pages. Where a store publishes its whole catalog (most Shopify stores, plus the WooCommerce and help-center APIs of SquarePeg, Geeky Sex Toys and Bad Dragon), every listing was read and counted. Larger sites were sampled, from 5 to 65 product pages each, so a platinum line on a page we didn't open wouldn't show up. Every quote in the tables was copied from the maker's page, and I fetched the key pages again that day to check the wording.

The 42 are 31 makers from our rankings and 11 more that sell silicone toys in the US or UK, from big ones like Pipedream and Blush to small fantasy shops like Weredog. Not every maker on our rankings is here: the doll and machine makers, the stores and the lube makers are left out, and so are Exotic Erotics and Magic Wand. A store that also makes its own toys (Wild Flower, Lovehoney, Hot Octopuss) counts only for those, and a retailer's description never counts for a maker.

This page records what the makers say. It doesn't judge whether a claim is true, and we didn't send toys to a lab. Some of these makers pay us a commission on sales through our links. That didn't change what I recorded, and every link in the tables goes to the maker's own page.

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