I've recently seen Latex gloves mentioned on this sub and elsewhere as a safety measure when handling nicotine.
Please note that Latex is permeable to nicotine and you want Nitrile gloves. They're essentially the same cost, much less permeable, and available almost anywhere.
If you have a Costco membership, they sell long-cuff nitrile gloves in the pharmacy section at a very reasonable price. They should also be available in most other pharmacy departments (like in Walmart).
Chemist here. If you are working with any chemical consult this chart before gloving up.
http://www.aps.anl.gov/Safety_and_Training/User_Safety/gloveselection.html
Thank you, I start making my own fluid next week. You might have just saved my life.
Don't get me wrong, latex is still resistant and better than nothing, but at best I saved you from a little nausea!
these are what I use Sure they are a decent bit more expensive, but man are they awesome
Did a little research... So the Venom Steel gloves are advertised as 70% larger than normal Venom gloves, which are 3 mils thick. 3 * 1.7 = 5.1 and yet they are listed as 6 mil thickness on that Amazon product page and their official site. So that's some pretty lame rounding-up if you ask me. Not that you asked, but I prefer the larger nitrile gloves which are much thicker, reusable, and more comfortable in my opinion.
Edit: I'm sure it's a fine product for this application by the way, just gets me when manufacturers squeeze all they can out of numbers.
Edit: I had turned mils into mm in my head, fixed that.
I guess it's kinda the same as battery companies lying about the continuous and pulse ratings. yes gloves that are reusable are nice, I have a pair of those large nitrile gloves, but use them for dishes and such. The venoms are a little more comfortable imo, but to each his own :)
Absolutely, I think that we probably have different requirements - you are certainly mixing a fair bit more than I am :)
Probably 90% of my production thus far has been 5-10ml refinements on basic recipes using pipette pumps, so I am just pressing a button a few times - I imagine that at scale you need the extra dexterity.
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do you really need gloves when handling something like 6mg base? can't you just swip it off with a tissue and whash you hand afterwards? I usually make 2 10 ml batch per week, each time I get some on my hand, still there. Am I to expect skin problem in some years?
I haven't used gloves in 6 months. I work with 60mg or less. Never once had an accident and 60mg or less is pretty safe to work with. Of course, there's always some idiot that will pour the stuff on himself. I've seen people do it on YouTube - more or less on purpose - they deserve whatever result they get out of that.
Just because you haven't ever been in a car accident doesn't mean you still shouldn't take proper safety precautions, like wearing a seat belt.
You can't harm yourself with <60mg unless you quite literally pour the stuff on yourself.