Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Speedy latex dressing

Jens from Demask Dortmund demonstrates how quickly one can don a latex neck-entry catsuit that has been chlorinated. Apparently chlorine-treated latex slides like nylon over itself and over DRY skin. Personally, I love it. But if your skin has the least bit of moisture or sweat, the latex will stick to you like wet pvc does, which is nice, because it means that shortly after you slide into the latex, you will sweat and it will stick. Another great thing about treated latex is that it helps the latex last a lot longer, less stress while dressing. What does anyone know about this process?

Here's some more info from 3XL:
Chlorination can be done easily, simply and at a very low price at home.
I’ve made a small txt about that on Fetlife:
(English is not my first language, so there may be some inaccuracy in the text, all my apologizes)

“Tired of using talcum or lube for dressing aid?

You can chlorinate your latex, to give it a silky smooth feeling, by blocking the “rubbing” molecular bonds.

What you need

- 3 buckets at least 12l of volume (one is preferred to be closed, but a plank on top is enough)
- 2 measuring bowls going to 200ml
- 2 big plastic spoons (the kind for kitchen is good)
- lots of tap water
- bleach water (typical standard un-flavoured un-perfumed one, non concentrated… the basic one)
- vinegar (the white, basic, un-flavoured, un-perfumed, got the idea ;) )
- an aerated room (or better, an outside)

What to do:

Preparation
- First, clean your garments to remove talc, polish, lube, other bodily fluids
- Fill two buckets full of tap water (the ones you will not close), they will serve at rinsing. The closable bucket will serve as reaction bucket.

Cycle
- fill the reaction bucket with around 7l of tap water.
- measure 200ml of bleach water in the first bowl, pour it in the reaction bucket and mix water and bleach with the first spoon.
- measure 200ml of vinegar in the second bowl, pour it in the reaction bucket and mix water with the second spoon.
- the reaction is beginning, put the garment (or two small garments like skirt or top) in the reaction bucket, push them with the second spoon, once it seems well in the water, close the bucket.
- we will let it around 15 minutes in it, afterwards there is nearly no more chlorine. In the meantime, I mix and check every 5 minutes, mainly to avoid latex sticking to itself, then impeding chlorine to touch its surface.
- when the 15 minutes are ended, pull the garment out, put it in the first rinsing bucket, mix a bit.
- then put it in the second rinsing bucket, reversing it inside out between them.

You have to do this cycle at least 4 times (twice inside, twice outside the garment). But it depends on the latex, Libidex/Radical Rubber is needing at least 6 cycles.

Then, let dry, you’ll quickly feel the difference!

Recommandations:

- Chlorine is a dangerous gas. But here it’s very small amount. Anyway, prefer to do it in a ventilated place.
- Chlorine is heavier than air, so if latex is out of the water, it will still bath in the chlorine gas. Best to put as much as possible in the water, but don’t be afraid of out-of-water parts, they are treated as well. What you want to avoid is latex sticking to itself, so move it to have water in between
- Bleach is not that harmful for skin, neither is vinegar. When they are reacting, the cancel each other, so don’t be afraid of putting your hands in this.
- the result mix can be thrown away in the sink, it’s just some kind of salt, not harmful.
- I’ve seen no influence on the elasticity of the latex (no reason to, it’s surface treatment, elasticity comes mainly from volume)
- I’ve seen no influence on the glued part, it’s still strong. What is true is that treated latex will not be glued afterwards, since chlorine is taking the same place as the gluing molecules
- I’ve seen no influence on colors, but I treated only black, red, metallic blue, metallic green, purple and pink. Maybe other colors could have reactions, I don’t know.
- you may be wanting to keep some zones untreated, like the top inner part of legging or stockings, so that it’s still kept stuck to your skin there, just put some tape over that zone to avoid water and chlorine to reach it.

Besides that, I don’t think I forgot something.
The method is easy, cheap, quite quick, and really really worth it.
That turns people from “yuk, latex, keep that away from me” to “hmm, latex, I can’t stop touching myself while wearing this”

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Just decided to give this a go. I used my oldest full suit (it's about a 0.6mm, from Blackstyle I think) and gave it two cycles in the solution.

After drying, it's INCREDIBLE! As promised, the rubber glided on without talc, no problems at all. And it feels just perfect - suit looks polished like new and it's got a really high rubber 'squeak' to it now. I'm creaking with the slightest movement and I don't want to take the suit off now.

Give it a try!

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