Guide to Custom Silicone Teether

Babies usually start teething early, before they're even sitting up on their own, between 3 and 6 months.Silicone teething toys such as teethers that baby can chew on to relieve sore, sensitive gums. Chomping down on a teether feels good because it offers counterpressure to the rising tooth, helps the baby to get through this often painful stage.

Teething toys also provide a gateway for kids to the sensory world and prepare their mouths for more complex feeding tasks. Oral motor skills involve the movement of the facial muscles which include the mouth, jaw, tongue, lips, and cheeks. We know babies put everything in their mouths, after all, it's how they explore the world around them. Silicone teether can also be helpful in teaching babies some coordination and recognition.

A Guide To DEVELOPING CUSTOM TEETHER

Teething toys can be made in various kinds of materials, materials commonly applied on market are untreated natural hardwood, latex, plastic or fabric, Eva, and silicone.

As a safe and environmentally friendly material, silicone has a natural resistance to bacteria, mold, fungus, odors, and stains. Silicone is also durable, long-lasting, and the colors stay bright. Silicone teething toys are more and more popular. Silicone also has excellent temperature resistance, so you can boil the custom silicone teethers to sterilize or cool the teething toys in the freezer to have the additional benefit of slightly numbing the baby's gums.

Teethers Suppliers and Manufacturers

Smily mia is a professional silicone products manufacturer dealing with custom silicone products, custom silicone teether is one of our main businesses. 

1. Things you should consider before designing the silicone teether

When you start to design your own wholesale silicone teether, there are factors you should consider to develop a functional as well as a market welcomed custom baby teether.

1.1 Target market regulations and safety standards

It is important that you must know the regulations of your target market on teething toys, make sure your design complies with the regulation standards.

The toy safety standard refers to ASTM F963-17, it covers various aspects of product safety:

* Substance restrictions: Lead, mercury, and other chemicals and heavy metals

* Physical properties: Sharp edges, loose parts, etc

* Flammability

Silicone is an FDA food-grade material, it can be BP, Phthalate, Lead, Latex-free. And it can pass the flammability test as well. The only thing you should consider is the physical properties, your teether should not be too small or sharp to cause any safety hazards, so you should pay attention to the small parts regulation.

So when designing your silicone teether, remember to pay attention to target market regulation.

Custom Baby Teether

1.2 Know what customers will consider when they choose the smily mia teether for their little ones.

Here are things customers frequently consider before buying a teether;

Durability: the teether should be strong and does not break quickly because of the continuous chewing, causing the baby to choke

Safe material: the teether should be FDA approved, non-toxic, BPA-free, phthalate-free

Cost: a baby teether should be with an inexpensive price that is affordable by most customers

Easy-grip: teethers should be easy for babies to hold with their tiny hands

Texture: ensure the teether have multiple gum-soothing textures

Perfect size and lightweight: the teether should not be too big to hold or too small to cause choke, it should be lightweight for babies to hold

Maintenance and Hygiene: teethers that are dishwasher safe, could be sterilized with steam in a microwave, or boiled

Chilled: Can be chilled in fridge or freezer for extra numbing relief

Multifunctional: act as a teether and a toy, be attractive enough to keep babies happy and occupied

Smily mia offers certain design assistance to customers who have trouble with 3D CAD models. It will be helpful for the Customer to offer hand-drawing sketches of what your baby teether will look like. The sketch should be as detailed as possible, with labels explaining the various features and functions. Similar products image and physical samples will also help with our 3D working out.

2. Production ways of silicone teether

Compression molding and dispensing/epoxy are two main production ways for silicone teether.

Single color silicone teethers can be easily molded by compression molding like common silicone products. But silicone teething toys with vivid patterns and various eye-catching colors can help engage the baby's senses and imagination, and be more attractive to keep your baby happy and occupied.

Silicone overmolding is one of the ways to produce custom teethers with 2~3 colors. For wholesale teethers with more colors, dispensing will be the more feasible way of production. However,as the dispensing cost is high, silicone over-molding is still the popular production way currently.