Food safe polymer clay. Yes it is absolutely safe to use polymer clay in this manner. Question about sculpey and food safe glaze so i would like to make a teapot and small cups out of clay. So go ahead and decorate your wine glasses and coffee cups. It may interest you to know that the matter of whether polymer clay is food safe is also a matter of much debate.
Youve proably read the caution on a box of sculpey or other polymer clay. Is polymer clay safe for that. Heres a list of guidelines for the safest use of polymer clay. Pottery or dishes made from sculpey iii should be used for decorative purposes only not with food beverages or smoking materials.
That can be controversial but in general its not a good idea to put wet acidic or hot items in direct contact with polymer clay bowlsplatesetc. Earthen clay is anothe. Go ahead and make big chunky handles for childrens cutlery. Thats because those things could cause any plasticizeretc in the baked clay that hadnt gotten.
As long as its not a food contact region youre fine. But leave the polymer clay off of the food contact region.