That "cornstarch" reference triggered a memory for me, so I searched. According to the Fleshlight site, the material is "Real Feel Super Skin®". Violet Blue did a writeup on
"Unsafe Sex Products"; in it, she mentioned offhand that:
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Most sex toys are made of a material usually referred to as jelly rubber, though you'll also see variations like jel-lee, latex jelly, or derivatives like glow-in-the-dark and "realistic" materials such as softskin, Cyberskin or Futurotic. Jelly rubber toys are very colorful, clear (though not always), shiny and visually appealing. It's the ultimate "mystery material", mass-produced in mostly Chinese chemical factories with so many mixtures and versions of the material it's difficult to pin down a set of manufacturer's ingredients.
It is known that these mystery materials contain latex and phthalates, they have a very chemical smell, they leach oils and can leave spots on fabrics and wood, and the surface breaks down over time. Softskin, Cyberskin and Futurotic toys are especially strange; while they feel amazingly real, they react bizarrely with other jelly rubber toys and actually melt into wet puddles of chemical goo upon contact -- needless to say, don't store these two materials side-by-side. Softskin is the most porous toy of all, able to absorb color from lipstick and even text from newsprint.
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Of course, she is looking at these products from a "body cavity insertion" standpoint, which is the opposite of what we are dealing with here. Nonetheless, that melting thing is something to watch out for.