Bracelet and wristbands that are made of silicone have become popular. These are worn for a cause or for a charitable organization or for an awareness campaign. Wristbands have been in fashion for many ages. Some wristbands are meant for specific purpose like black brands is worn for mourning and white is worn by the people of the World health organization. Silicon wristbands became famous in a live strong movement. It was lance Armstrong who started this movement. He had won many awards. He fought against cancer at an earlier age. Through this live strong movement many patients were able to fight against cancer. To support this movement many patients started wearing yellow silicone wristbands. Silicone is made of semi-inorganic polymer. It is water resistant, heat stable and very flexible. Silicone is used for many products and also silicone wristbands. Silicone wristbands have many benefits like they are very comfortable to wear, suitable for summer and winter climatic conditions, personal message or logo can be written on the wristband, it can have embossed and debossed text.

Silicon wristbands can be used for many purposes. Government organizations use them for community awareness, town fairs or festivals, military support, outreach programs. Non profit organizations use them for awareness. Memberships use them for their clubs like car clubs, academic clubs or for some special events. Religious purposes use them for daily awareness camp, moral awareness and scriptures. In Sports event to support the team, name bands etc.  There are various types of wristbands like the screen printed, glow in the dark, color core, color filled. Silicone wristbands can be made very easily. Most manufacturers offer huge discount to customers who buy in bulk. Different colors of wristbands are used for different purposes. Red wristbands were used to raise money for tsunami victims. Pink wristbands were used to raise fund for breast cancer charities and green to support armed forces. Silicon wristbands can be embossed with any slogan or name. There are wristbands that glow in the dark and blank wristbands. Some blank wristbands do have keychain in them. Silicon wristbands come in different colors and different words according to your choice can be written.

There are various types of wristbands in the market like intertwined band, interlinked band, color filled band, USB wristbands, slim silicone band, standard silicone.
These come in different colors like single color, multi colored, marbled, color changing, UV reflective bands and glow in the dark. The logo or text can be printed, embossed or debossed. Embossed images are generally created by stretching and reshaping the paper fibers with great pressure usually with heat. This is next accomplished by pressing the paper between a female die and its molded male matching part on an embossing press. The two basic embossing techniques used are blind and foil. Blind embossing do not apply any colors. But in foil embossing the material is heated and then embosses the image over heat resistant ink. Silicon wristband can also be used as a promotional product. Advertising your company, club or organization in this way is very cost effective.