How to Chlorinate a Latex Mask!
In this article I will discuss the Chlorinating process as it relates to latex and foam latex masks .
First if you where crazy enough to try chlorinating one of your latex garments you really gotta be dancing on your head to want to chlorinate a Latex Mask . First you might ask why someone would want to chlorinate a mask? As we discussed before in the other chlorination article latex has a natural stickiness or what we will call surface tension . The smoother or shinier the skin of the latex piece the stickier it will be . Shiny unchlorinated latex will stick to itself and will stick permanently so for that reason we use parting agents to keep it apart such as corn starch and silicone oil . Smooth foam latex films will also have a strong tendency to crease . This creasing is caused by the compression of the air bubbles in the foam piece that stick to itself causing compression . One way to look at it is by making air bubbles inside the latex you have created a vast stick surface area all through the piece . To counter this we try just about anything from the usual silicone oils and corn flours to rubbing yogurt on our stomachs . The best thing to do is to keep compression of the piece at a minimum something not always possible .
There might actually be some benefits in chlorinating a Latex Mask . If you could find away to chlorinate a mask you would be able to both have a softer less sticky surface area and also help to reduce or even eliminate the creasing as it would chlorinate all surfaces including the bubbles in the foam . This idea at hand we need to look at the draw backs of conventional chlorinating, in which we take a vat of water, add chlorine and hydrochloric acid and immerse the mask . Although the surface of the mask would become softer and less sticky and we would not even care less shinny the draw back is it will eat and bleach your color . May be that's the reason no one has ever chlorinated a latex mask, or have they?
MakupArtist to the rescue! Of course we did it as he does a little dance . This was too easy wells relatively, you just take a large pressurized stainless steel container, put your mask in and inject pressurized chlorine to about 500psi oh and don't forget the chorine resistant color that is applied to the mask . Yes we did manage to chlorinate a mask and we can now do it as an option for you on your order . The only thing is you need to be patient as the mask has to be made from scratch as we can not chlorinate masks in our usual stock that have silicone oil and cornstarch on them so expect at least two weeks added to your order . Your mask will arrive to your with a coat of our mask lotion for conditioning and a small amount of corn starch in the bag to help balance coating and humidity .
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