![]() ![]() flexzap) degrades it produces a carboxylic acid that can irritate the healing wound and cause reinfection. However, the medical grade stuff contains slightly less impurities and more importantly the carbon chain-length of one of the components is longer so that it is more stable under biological conditions and degrades to a slightly different by-product. Chemically it is near-identical to super-glue in that they are both cyano-acrylate ester based (have a look at the Materials Data Sheet for the FlexZap). The proper medical glue is a different thing altogether: it actually bonds wounds together rather than just covering them. Essentially it's not intended to replace stitches / staples for actually holding wounds closed - it's role is to replace plasters and bandages. Although the germolene stuff dries to form a hard seeming yet flexible crust it is not very tough or well-adhered and tears off fairly easily. It looks very similar to the liquid skin that Germolene (Bayer) sell acting as a water resistant, yet breathable barriers, against reinfection. I suspect the Compeed stuff might prove a disappointment. Put a layer of Flex on today and am mighty impressed with the tough skin-like result. I'll be trying them out as soon as I get a chance and will report back. I ordered two lots of each online and both have arrived. The unique hypoallergenic, waterproof, fragrance-free formula is created without alcohol or dyes to ensure it is. No more painful removal of adhesive bandages. It goes on sting-free and when you are ready to remove it, gently wash it off. It's produced by Pacer and sold in hobby shops for model building, it's called Flex-Zap II : New-SkinĀ® Sensitive Skin- designed for easily irritated skin. More than the other stuff I reckon this could be useful as artificial skin, given it's low cost, easy to use gel texture and tough flexible finish. Because it's a gel it can be easily built up into a substantial layer. No use for open cuts as it's would probably sting like buggery and be rather toxic. The other one I have come across is a much cheaper gel superglue which sets clear and is flexible. It's produced by Compeed and is called Liquid Bandage: The first is a medical grade stuff which is pretty expensive but which can be applied directly into cuts! This stuff is flexible, waterproof, doesn't sting even in open cuts and could be used to glue down flappers, close splits or possibly to get extra climbing time out of thin tips. Have done a bit of googling in the last week or so and have come across some interesting products which might be of interest to boulderers in general. What I really want is something as sticky as standard superglue but with some flexibility so that it doesn't just crack and crumble when bent and so it has some skin like friction. This works pretty well but I have always thought there must be a better way. For ages now i've been getting around this by supergluing a double thickness square of finger tape over the area. As you can imagine the skin on this pressure point tends to wear through very quickly when climbing on big grit slopers. Due to having Dupuytren's I have a knot of scar tissue on the palm of my right hand. ![]()
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