HB Silicone is a professional silicone manufacturer dealing with custom silicone products, custom silicone teether is one of our main businesses. For customers who want to develop their own silicone teether, this post can be a guide for you.

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

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

• 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, and 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.

The small parts regulation exists to prevent children from choking on, inhaling, or swallowing small parts (sometimes also referred to as “small objects”). It applies to toys, components of toys, and other articles intended for children under three years of age which are small parts. If a small part fits completely into the cylinder, and the toy or product from which it came is intended for use by children under three, the toy or product is banned because the small part presents a choking hazard.

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

1. Durability: the teether should be strong and does not break quickly because of the continuous chewing, causing the baby to choke
2. Safe material: the teether should be FDA-approved, non-toxic, BPA-free, phthalate-free
3. Cost: a baby teether should be with an inexpensive price that is affordable by most customers
4. Easy-grip: teethers should be easy for babies to hold with their tiny hands
5. Texture: ensure the teether have multiple gum-soothing textures
6. Perfect size and lightweight: the teether should not be too big to hold or too small to cause choking, it should be lightweight for babies to hold
7. Maintenance and Hygiene: teethers that are dishwasher safe, could be sterilized with steam in a microwave, or boiled
8. Chilled: Can be chilled in fridge or freezer for extra numbing relief
9. Multifunctional: act as a teether and a toy, be attractive enough to keep babies happy and occupied

HB Silicone offers 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.

For mouth contact teething products, printing and oil spray are not suggested.  Embossed or debossed LOGOs are the way for LOGO

Below are our production process for custom silicone baby teethers development.

When our customer finishes the design of the teether, our professional engineers will review the design, and confirm the feasibility and best production way.

This stage includes programming, CNC tooling, and silicone teether prototyping. Trial teether samples will be produced and sent to the customer for confirmation or test.

HB Silicone offers packing solutions for customers who need customized packing. The customer will need to offer the packing design.

HB Silicone offers full process silicone service, from design to tooling, from production to packing, all finished here under your requirement.