How we do this, and what we will not pretend to

We do not test products. Nobody here has measured a durometer, run a sample through a lab, or worn a harness for six months. So there is no score on any of these pages: no stars, no number out of five, no ranking. A rating would be an invention, and an invented rating on a subject where the wrong answer means a porous object inside somebody's body is not a thing we are prepared to publish.

What we do instead is read. Each page sets out what a maker states in public about its materials, explains what those words actually mean in chemistry and in practice, and then shows you how to verify the claim yourself with a tape measure, a nose and a careful read of a specification field. Where we offer an opinion, it is labelled as an editorial reading and it stays separate from the documented facts.

The reason this is useful at all is that this category is barely regulated. No agency reviews a material declaration before it goes on a website, and the phrase body-safe means nothing legally. A maker's own documentation, and how specific it is willing to be, is most of the evidence any buyer has.