The Stojo bottle is in the highest price range for its type here on Amazon. The excellent web page design and glowing youtube reviews led me to believe that THIS is a product that will not disappoint. so i bit the bullet on that high price and went ahead and bought 6 of them.
Just like others here my bottles arrived looking as if they had been kicked around on the floor of a public bus. Yet the packaging itself was in pristine condition. In this case I was willing to happily keep them, if it really was just dirt from a returned item. The white stuff did not wash off.
*when i contacted Stojo about this issue, their response was to blame MY hard water or MY dish detergent and to encourage me to clean a bit better using their recommended technique. I cant emphasize enough how inappropriate that kind of response is. Really Stojo?
It seems to me that Stojo made a bad batch and is still trying to sell the bad batch anyway.
I'm no scientist, or expert, but I DID research silicone to the best of my abilities and i have gathered some general ideas and guidelines for my efforts. If it might help anybody else, What i learned is this:
1) If the silicone has a white powdery substance and its NOT hard water causing it.... than this is a result of a faulty or rushed curing process during manufacturing. If the product did not cure properly, than the whole idea of a non-reactive , safe healthy substance goes right out the window.
2) generally the darkest solid colors are a little bit purer than the lighter colored silicone stuff.
3) the best silicone can endure 550 degrees F, so you can judge the quality by degrees on how close to 550 the rating goes. (stojo is pretty good)
4) FDA regulations are garbage. European standards are best.
5) the symbol for LFGB standards are a knife and fork.
6) there is Stojo branding on the bottom of the bottles so i can trust i got the real item and not a nock-off.
The Stojo bottle Pros)
1. It does not leak
2. it feels good in the hand.
3. fits in vest pockets when full.
4. not floppy when full also stands on its own.
5 LFGB standards are the highest available in this market.
6. a small private company with a high end product
The Stojo Cons)
1. It requires two hands and some struggling to collapse it and to un-collapse it.
2. It is NOT seamless silicon, it has a seam all the way up its side. None of the photos in the ads show the seam that i could tell.
3. customer service communication is depersonalized and spotty... pun intended.
4. They do not maintain the high standards they established when they first began their business.
well, i better end it here.
Goodbye Stojo I will no longer be your customer.
I am going to try the Sil**se and the HYD**AY brands next.
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