By Ken Ige, Star-Bulletin
Glove in a Bottle provides squirt-on
protection for the hands.
It won't replace gloves, but it adds a second line of defense against those caustic elements in the workplace and around the home. Gloves In A Bottle is a rub-on compound that both creates an invisible barrier on the skin and closes up pores so that the skin finds it hard to absorb things. Instant gloves put
a new rub on fitManufactured from a variety of materials that include water, stearic acid and sea kelp, Gloves In A Bottle looks and feels like hand lotion. Squirt a small amount on the hand, then rub it in. That vaguely greasy feeling that hand lotion leaves is replaced by a dusty feeling, as if your hands have baby powder on them.
Each application is good for about four hours, and it doesn't wash off. The material eventually sloughs off on its own.
While applied, Gloves In A Bottle protects the skin from most sorts of irritants, including pesticides, fertilizers, poison ivy and oak, solvents, petroleum products, hydraulic fluids, paints, resins, machine oils, Fiberglas, tar, cement, acetones, hair dyes and setting solutions, disinfectants, ammonia, lacquers, ink, photographic chemicals and actually protects against the latex in latex gloves as well.
As well as chemical workers and cleaners, Gloves In A Bottle is used by doctors, paramedics, pet groomers, beauty-shop operators and mechanics. On the market for about a year to professionals, it's now available in hardware stores and pharmaceutical supply houses. We found our sample at Hydra-Air Pacific on Koapaka St. near the airport for $4.88.
By Burl Burlingame, Star-Bulletin
