It's cornstarch. It's cornstarch at $160 per pound, or 50x the price of cornstarch.
C'mon now. This is a cute marketing ploy, but all that this is, and unabashedly so there is no attempt at misleading you, is regular cornstarch. The only thing different between this and Argo cornstarch ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00T70RNQ8 ) which is available here and in every grocery store in the country, is that this costs $15 for 1.5 oz and the Argo (or any similar cornstarch off the grocery shelf) would cost $0.30 per 1.5 oz.<br /><br />It's OK to make a profit, it's OK to say that your product is differentiated (it's in a plastic sprinkle bottle, not a box or jar) and it's OK to put out some exotic product as a novelty item and charge 3x,4x,5x maybe even 10x as much as it's worth, but this is 50x as much as it should cost. Imagine the outrage if Pharma Bro did that with his medicines.<br /><br />And, is it as good as a regular box off of the grocery shelf, "thicken your egg drop soup", cornstarch? No, it might be worse, and here's why. As you can see in the attached pictures, it arrived slightly open, enough to let the power out and anything else into the container. This is a product that you want to be as sterile as possible. This company is obviously buying the cornstarch from somewhere else (Argo?) and re-packing it into 1.5 oz bottles. I have no idea what their sanitation control is, but I know that their QC is lacking based on the bottle I received.<br /><br />Do you want to take a chance on something that will go into your body, or your body into it, that is not bacteriological pure? I don't.<br /><br />My background is in hydrocolloids (fancy word for things like cornstarch) and you will find if you do some research that cornstarch is not just cornstarch. It can be modified (which this is not, it would need to be declared on the label) and if it's not modified, it can be specially ground into various sizes for various purposes. This is none of those, there's nothing special about this, it's exactly what you'd find in a box off of the grocery shelf or if you bought basic cornstarch for cooking from Amazon.<br /><br />Now that you know that it's cornstarch, if you want to apply regular cornstarch to your toys, go ahead. If you're worried about sanitation and contamination (remember, the other cornstarches are food grade) take the cornstarch, and throw it (dry) in a microwave for a bit, and it'll be more sanitary than what you're paying $160 per lb for from this company.
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