Evaluate: LCP Medical Face Masks for Touring

Face masks have turn out to be part of our each day lives, and whereas we is probably not required to put on them all over the place we go, they’re more likely to nonetheless be a part of touring for a while to come back.

As vacationers, we’re required to put on masks on all flights, at airports and on public transport in most international locations. And this isn’t more likely to change anytime quickly.

The query now’s, what are one of the best masks to put on whereas touring?

You clearly need correct safety, however you additionally need it to be comfy to put on for prolonged intervals on lengthy flights.

We have been lately despatched a couple of masks from LCP Medical to trial and have been actually impressed with the masks.

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LCP Medical masks

Utilizing their PathoGen™ know-how and filtration mechanisms, LCP Medical created custom-fit washable FrontLine™ and EasyBreathe™ fabric face masks.

Options of the FrontLine masks:

• Excessive High quality material with elegant development that’s reusable and straightforward to sanitize
• 3 Filter Varieties: N95 Compliant Base Filter, PathoGen Filter, and Sport Filter
• Patent Pending Air Chamber holds the material away from the face, stopping pores and skin irritation and maintaining material from being sucked in when respiration
• All-Day Consolation with glorious match and seal to stop leakage across the edges and fogging of glasses

Their masks can be found in 5 adjustable sizes, together with youth sizes (ages 5-12). You may as well get a number of replaceable filter kinds.

The FrontLine protecting face masks package prices $45.99 and contains:

• One fabric facemask
• 5 x N95 compliant base filters

The EasyBreathe face masks prices $24.99 and contains:

• One fabric washable facemask with Embedded Air Chamber with glorious excessive move material filtration
• No replaceable filters wanted

How do LCP Medical masks enhance your air move?

There’s a balancing act between air move for simple respiration and recent air alternate vs. filtration which restricts air move and alternate.

One of many advantages of the air chamber on the LCP Medical masks is the filter is held away from the face permitting for some strain equalization as air flows via the filter. With that being mentioned, there’ll at all times be some rebreathing with any masks that has any degree of efficient filtration.

Merely put: The larger chamber within the LCP Medical masks permits extra airflow than masks sitting shut in opposition to your mouth.

Methods to wash your masks

Each the FrontLine and EasyBreathe masks from LCP Medical are reusable and might be hand washed with cleaning soap and water.

Earlier than washing your FrontLine masks, ensure that to take away the filter.

How lengthy can you utilize the filter for?

It is suggested that filters are changed after 6-8 hours of steady use, or if proof of saturation or contamination happens. Most individuals would have the ability to put on the masks for a couple of weeks earlier than switching out the filters based mostly on how usually they put on a masks.

LCP Medical presents quite a lot of Frontline filters for refills:

• The N95 Compliant Base Filter is the usual base filter made for our masks
• The Anti-PathoGen Filter is produced from a number of layers of pure elemental copper, reported by the EPA to get rid of 99.9% of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
• The Sport Filter is particularly made for train, sports activities, outside actions, and different conditions the place high-flow filtration is desired.

Their different EasyBreathe mask has a built-in filter that may be hand-washed. This masks presents all the design/consolation options (together with no glass fogging) however not the identical degree of safety.

Our evaluation of the LCP Medical masks for touring

I’m not an enormous fan of sporting masks. Who’s, proper?

I take advantage of each probability to take the masks off and put on it solely when wanted and when security guidelines demand it or after I resolve myself that it’s essential.

So I’m not testing the masks for 8 hours straight, however I’m crucial when sporting it.

My first impression was that it felt of upper high quality in comparison with all the opposite low-cost masks I purchased and wore. It occurred a number of occasions that I took out an affordable masks from my pocket after which the ribbon broke. My spouse wouldn’t thoughts, as she would have a second and third masks in her purse. Properly… I don’t have a purse and I rush out of the home with just one masks, which wants to carry.

In order that’s the primary plus level. The LCP masks goes to final far longer.

The primary time I wore the masks, it felt unfastened, although it wasn’t. This was due to the large air chamber and that the masks doesn’t lie flat in your mouth. So it’s truly much more comfy.

I additionally like that you would be able to resolve if you wish to use the filter or not. Clearly the filter is critical most occasions. It’s good that you would be able to alternate it rapidly and simply, however then hold the masks. What number of masks have you ever seen on the paths? And we have now all seen the photographs of masks being washed onto the seaside. It’s undoubtedly a plus level, in the event you can reuse your masks as a lot as attainable.

It’s the primary black masks I’m utilizing, which inserts to my hoodie and all different garments. 🙂 One other plus level. Not that I used to be jealous, however there have been individuals with higher wanting masks up to now. This modified now. 😉

And it doesn’t matter what, I’m wanting ahead to the day after we can eliminate all of the masks once more. Let’s hope that this present day comes ahead of later. I nonetheless count on that it’s going to take one other 1-2 years that we must put on masks when touring. And I’m glad that I acquired a masks for these journeys now, which is dependable and does it job.