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Body Oil, Baby Oil And Cooking Oil, For Soaking or Mixing With
Polymer Clay, My Favourite Is Baby Oil.
Maimeri high-viscosity Linseed Oil, Walnut Oil And Light Refined
Linseed Oil For Soaking or Mixing With Polymer Clay.
Sculpey Clay Softener For Soaking Or Mixing With Polymer Clay.
Fimo Mix Quick For Mixing To Soften Polymer Clay, Unfortunately,
It Does Change The Color Slightly, Like Clay You Will Also Need
To Knead The Mix Quick.
Translucent Liquid Sculpey, Kato Liquid And Fimo Decorating Gel,
For Mixing To Soften The Polymer Clay
Premo Sculpey Translucent And Sculpey Super Elasticlay, For
Mixing And Softening Any Hard Polymer Clay, The Two Are
The Best Mediums For Strengthening And Also Softening
Polymer Clay. You Can Also Use Premo Frost.
EXAMPLES OF SOFTENING POLYMER CLAY
USING SOME OF THE OILS AND CLAYS
Softening 24 Years Old Clay
I Have Been Keeping Old Fimo 1984/ 85 Catalogues
For 24 Years.
Content Inside The Old Catalogue.
I Also Kept Some 24 years old Fimo Clays White,
Black And Porcelian
Old Fimo Porcelian Baking Temperature 100º C
Compressed Old Fimo Porcelian
Refer To The 
Pour A Little Cooking Oil On Tile
Mixed The Cooking Oil With Fimo Porcelian
Soften Porcelian Is Now Shaped into A Ball
Pour A Little Baby Oil On Tile
Mixed And Condition The Clay
Shaped It Into A Ball
Two Pieces of clay 50% Fimo Porcelian and 50% Premo Translucent
The Clay Is condition Thoroughly
Rolling It Into A Ball
Mixing 85% Fimo Porcelian and 15% Sculpey Elasticlay
Condition The Clay By Mixing Thoroughly
Roll It Into A Ball
Preparing To Bake In The Oven
Close Up View of Cooking And Baby Oll Mixtures
Close Up View of PremoAnd Elasticlay Mixtures
Baking In The Oven For 20 Minutes, Temperature
Between 130º C / 150º C
After Baking
Slight Variation Of Color From Yellowish ( Cooking Oil ) To Light
Colored Super Elasticlay Mixture
Flexiblity Test : Bending / Flexing 70 Times At 0.2mm Thk.
Will Not Break The Polymer Clay Mixture, Baking At Higher
Temperature Is Best For CurIng The Clay, Just Remember
Some Polymer Clay Cannot Baked For More Than 30 Minutes
Above The Recommended Temperature, Clay Will Change
Color Example Super Sculpey, But When The Clay Is Brown
It Is Even Stronger.
Second Test Baking Between 100º C To 120º C
For 20 Minutes
Closer View Of The Oil Mixtures
Closer View Of The Clay Mixtures
Baking In The Oven For 20 Minutes Between 100º C to 120º C
After Baking, No Yellowish Tone
Testing Strength And Flexiblity, Cooking Oil And Baby Oil Mixtures,
Breaks Easily With Single Bending, Premo Mixture, Flexible,15 Times
Bending before Breaking, Sculpey Elasticlay Bending above 50 times
Will Not Break. Although The Recommended Temperature Is100º C,
It Is Best To Bake At A Higher Temperature As The Clay Will Be Fully
Cured. To Acertain The Right Temperature Bake The Various Brands In
Small Pieces Within 130º C / 140º C For 20 Minutes And Observed
Which Types Of Clay Changes Color,For Kato Clay Bake It Between
150º C / 160º C For 20 Minutes.
EXAMPLES OF PREMO AND ELASTICLAY USED
FOR SOFTENING AND STRENGTHENING
OTHER POLYMER CLAY
Softening And Strengthening
Strengthening And Softening Fimo Soft With Premo Sculpey
Translucent, Proportion 50% FS + 50%PST, It Will Make The
Fimo Soft Even Stronger As Premo Is One Of The Quality
Polymer Clay. There Is A Very Slight Change Of Color,
It Depends On The Proportion Of Adding The Premo
Translucent Clay.
Softening Hard Kato Clay With Premo Sculpey Translucent,
Proportion 50% KC + 50%PST. 
Strengthening And Softening Lyra Modello With Premo Sculpey
Translucent, Proportion 50% LM + 50%PST
New Lyra Medello Clay Is Difficult To Condition, As Shown Above,
Add About Same Portion Of Premo Sculpey Transluscent With
Lyra Modello
Mixing 50% Lyra + 50% Premo Sculpey Translucent
Process Of Conditioning, Rolling And Folding
After Thorough Mixing The Clay Is Softer and Easier To Shape
Two Test Mixtures 50% Lyra + 50% Premo Translucent, 80 % Lyra +
10% Super Elasticlay.
Test Results: Lyra Clay Is Stronger With 50% Premo Translucent,
Flexing / Bending 45 Times Before Cracks Appears. With 10%
Super Elasticlay Mixtures Is Weak Break With A Single Bend,
The Basic Clay Composition Is Not Strong It Is Worst Than
Sculpey 3
Mixing 90% Kato Clay With 10% Super Elasticlay Will Softened The
Hard Kato Clay
Mixtures Is Sticky As you Condition The Clay
After Conditioning ,The Clay Is Smooth And Firm. Depending
On The Quantity Of Super Elasticlay Added Into The Kato Clay,
It Can Be Too Soft
All Types Of Polymer Clay Mixtures
Conditioning Polymer Clay Mixtures
After Conditioning Shaped Into A Ball
Preparation For Baking
Baking In The Oven For 30 Minutes At Between 130º C
to 150º C For 30 Minutes
