CiaraQ Polymer Conformed Non Toxic Beginners Reviews Summary

Quality and Texture

Pros:

• "Nice soft and easy to work with. Would be great for beginners."
• "The clay was soft and easy to use."
• "It is smooth and long lasting."
• "These clays maintain their color, pretty much, during baking and are easy to condition."
• "It's very malleable with hands and doesn't have any strong smell."
• "The clay is a good quality for the cost."
• "The clay was pliable and good colors. It baked solid and looked great."

Cons:

• "Some of the clay is soft, and some is super dry and low quality."
• "The blue turned to powder, many of the pieces were rock hard and were tossed away."
• "But this clay doesn't soften up well, even after several minutes of working with it."
• "This clay was hard as a rock, you have to spend so much time to get it in a usable state."
• "Also, some of the clay was softish, and some was so hard I couldn’t even try to condition it."
• "This clay is definitely not easy to work with like sculpty."
• "The clay seemed a little tougher and drier than other polymer clay that I had been using."

Color and Variety

Pros:

• "There's a wide range of colors."
• "She has been making jewelry --earrings, charms for a necklace or bracelet and having a wonderful time selecting colors."
• "There are 24 pieces so you can mix and match colors and maybe even knead together to make new colors if you have to."
• "There's a variety of bright, vibrant colors. They're really pigmented."
• "And the colours are vivid and strong."
• "This set comes with a great variety of colors and the clay is larger than all the other sellers."
• "I received a nice variety of colors, no doubles."

Cons:

• "The colors I received did not match what’s shown."
• "Yes you get 24 colors, but not 24 different colors."
• "The colors advertised seemed like a nice arrangement and included a fleshtone that I wanted."
• "There was a large variety of orange and brown colors, and just a couple reds, blues and greens. We don't use a lot of browns so that was disappointing."
• "The colors are much darker than they appear."
• "I did not receive those colors. I got a lot of pinks."
• "The red, blue, and teal colors were highly staining."

Value for Money

Pros:

• "This set was $6 something when I ordered it and that is really good value."
• "Great product for the money just remember they are small but same as other clay I’ve bought quality still the same lots of colors."
• "However, for the price it was amazing quality and my kids really enjoyed making sculptures with it!"
• "This was really really good. I was surprised on the quality based off the price."
• "Great price under seven bucks for 24 colors."
• "Very affordable and fun."
• "Lots of great colors for a good price."

Cons:

• "Do yourself a favor, and buy the name brand stuff. It may be more expensive, but in this case, you get what you pay for."
• "This whole set was less than one or two single color blocks of oven bake clay."
• "I’ve never purchased a cheaper product in my life."
• "Spend the extra money and buy the good stuff."
• "What a waste of money!"
• "Ifind this article of very poor quality. The material is very hard. Too difficult to mold."
• "The clay was ridiculously small. It's the size of bubble gum."

Safety and Health

Pros:

• "This product is labeled as non-toxic, but has a warning in the above description, that you should not cook food in the same oven you use to cook this polymer clay."
• "The clay doesn't have a weird scent before, during or after baking."
• "It baked w/o cracking and didnt have any kind of odor or chemical smell."
• "The only thing that bothers me about this is that it does not specify if it's non-toxic like many art supplies typically do."

Cons:

• "Stains hands a bit especially the red."
• "The kitchen stank of plastic during it - it gave me a headache."
• "The clay releases fumes that stick to the oven walls."
• "It literally ate through the plate... not sure how healthy that is."
• "This product gave me a headache and made me feel sick While using."
• "It also stains your hands."
• "The clay was so hard that I couldn’t shape it into anything."

Usability and Packaging

Pros:

• "Plus it came with an extra set of tools."
• "Comes with tools to use."
• "Also the tools are really handy."
• "The instruction book says it comes with other items to make jewellery but it doesn't."

Cons:

• "The packages are sooo small and hard to open, not to mention the coloring it leaves on my grandsons fingers."
• "Cheaply packaged, it's like one person sat down and wrapped each of the block using a piece of wrap and scotch tape."
• "Each tiny block of clay is individually wrapped and the plastic is not easy to remove."
• "The packaging was not the same as shown in the photos."
• "Opened product and noticed one of the tools was dirty with unknown substance."
• "The 'included tools', not close to what seller's photos had."
• "The instructions were converted by a sticker on all boxes."