How to recover polymer clay that is too dry?You start a creation in polymer clay, everything is ready, but when you open your dough loaf, you realize that it is hard, too hard ... What to do? Here are 5 tips to soften a polymer clay and give a second life to your clay loaves:
If your dough is slightly hard and not dry, you can try to soften it by kneading the dough between your fingers or rolling it between your hands (clean of course, to avoid mixing dust or dirt with the dough).
Your hands are not enough, try to make stronger pressure by rolling it out with a polymer clay roller (failing that, take a rolling pin) or by running it through the dough machine. Your polymer dough loaf will become flat and all that's left to do is to reconstitute it.
Your dough is still too hard and kneading is not enough, bring it closer to a heat source . You can :
Polymer clay is thermoreactive, which means that it softens with heat and hardens with cold. In summer, it will soften. You will need to protect your dough from the heat by putting it in a cool place (but not the refrigerator). In winter, it will harden.
There are products that soften polymer clay. They are used with doughs that are slightly dry and crumbling.
With very dry pastes, you can use liquid polymers such as liquid Fimo, transparent liquid Sculpey or Kato Polyclay liquid paste.
It is always best to use the same brand of liquid paste as the one you want to soften, but there are some exceptions:
This technique may seem surprising, but it works pretty well. To use it, simply mix your dry polymer clay with a dab of moisturizer. Be careful, though, this technique tends to stain your hands. Be careful and wear gloves before trying this method.
Unfortunately, there are pastes that are impossible to recover because they are too old and even after working them for a long time with all these products the paste does not regain its flexibility.
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