I do not understand the negative comments on this product. I bought them for every member of my extended family. These are amazing masks.
The design is brilliant and solves every issue with mask-wearing-esp. n95 masks which can get uncomfortable quickly.
The design is a duckbill mask type n95. While I cannot test in a lab I feel confident based on how they are structured and their ability to filter the air I am breathing that they are probably the most secure n95s I have tried.
The reason is their design. They are designed to stay off the face but instead form a seal around the bridge of the nose, sides of the face and over the chin. This means very little air is coming from the sides or top and most of the air you breathe is *filtered through* the electrostatic material.
The straps are very light weight but very stretchy. You must position them well. Once you do, and secure the nose clip the mask does not move off the face. They work for both my husband and I and our teenager. They are probably too big for small children or people with very small faces but they work for my mom and she has a very small face.
I have a big family and got them for everyone so seriously--they are not uncomfortable. My mom has a lung condition and hates n95s and only wears them because she is high risk. She loves these.
The almost bandag- like stretch of the straps is also very ingenious because there is slight friction that holds them on your hair without slipping. It's quite tight. Moreover, there is *no ear pain* because they go around the back of the head. You literally cannot feel them yet they are extremely secure. They use the friction of this very light stretch fabric rather than tension to keep the mask extremely secure.
The face is completely covered by the mask down to the chin because because it doesn't touch the face.
So you don't get sweaty or uncomfortable and it is in fact easier to breathe than a cloth mask. Because only the sides of the mask rest lightly on the chin, sides of face and top of nose, it doesn't give you the claustrophobic feeling some report with masks
The nose clip is thick and secure. Very well made and comfortable and comforms well to the nose. It too is very comfortable and feels light on the face.
The material is thin but the key advantage of the n95 is the electrostatic material of the papere. it traps particles so the layers are not as essential as the structure of the material. I have no way of testing these except informally (see below).
There a couple of reasons I trust the design more than the standard thicker n95s . For one thing you will feel very little air coming in or out of the sides. My glasses do not fog at all.
When you breath in the mask forms a *tighter* seal around the face. This means the mask is filtering air through before you breath it.
The fact the mask is away from your face allows for breathability and comfort. Yes, it's not the most appealing look. I do not wear a second mask as I usually do because I have a lot of confidence about the filtration and the fact that the mask is clearly filtering the air flow rather than allow substantial air flow through the sides. This is clearly part of its intended design. However, you could wear a second maks --I'd wear this one on top though since it is designed to ensure air flows through the fabric AS you breath in.
You will quickly see it is not necessary. This is very effectively filtering particles out of the air as you breathe.
The reason for my confidence in the mask is that I've worn many n95s and respirators over this pandemic and I've always noticed that I can often smell through them easily. (I have an acute sense of smell.) In an odd way certain scents even become more potent possibly because background smells are filtered out.
In fact, this is not an issue and doesn't mean your n95 mask doesn't work because many of the molecules we smell are .0004 um --so molecules we smell are smaller than the virus particle. They still get through.
However, I've never had an n95 block my these molecules as well as this one. I was in a restaurant and could smell NONE of the food...when I sanitized my hands I caught the teensiest bit of alcohol scent but I barely noticed it.
Usually when I go to the store I can smell the flowers, or the fish in the fish department, etc. With this--I smell nothing.
It's crazy to take it off after all day wearing it--at first smell is very intense like my olfactory sense has been deprived the whole time and for a few minutes I smell *everything.*
I think this is a good indicator this mask filters almost all the air you're breathing in. Your out breath may be felt slightly by the side but this does not indicate lack of filtration because as I said the inhalation pulls air through the mask so that the mask actually tightens slightly on your face and you are breathing nothing from the sides.
For this all to work, you must be willing to take a minute to carefully adjust the mask. When you first open it you cannot see the straps. You have to separate out both sides of the duck bill and pull them out. You should hold them carefully with your hand, smooth your hair and put one on the upper part of the head and one closer to the bottom curve of your skull....make sure they are separated far enough apart to create separate tension between each side of the duck bill.
It's really not hard! I'm just trying to imagine what peoiple are doing with the masks because they are OBVIOUSLY easy to keep on and comfortable. You literally cannot feel the straps *all day long.* There is zero pressure on your head from the straps. That's another amazing thing of this design. The straps are soooooo stretchy but light that you don't have any discomfort from them unlike the usual n95 elastic strap.
I truly cannot get over how good these masks are! I cannot believe there's not a run on them on amazon!
Kudos to whomever designed these.
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Not sure if this is a 5.0 or a one star... Please read...Not sure if these are real or not... The NIOSH Number listed on the masks delivered to me are marked with a somewhat difficult to read stamping shown as NIOSH TC-84A- 9042... Kimberly Clark DOES have a number listed like this on the CDC website... But there are some issues in my opinion:The writing on the real one is shown in the photo I included from a medical website (see labeled photo) notice the 'real' one has very dark ink which is clearly legible in the center front of the mask whereas the one that was delivered to me in this order from Amazon has what looks like a different printing style... I'm also noticing the straps are vastly different!. The Kimberly Clark website for a medical listing has elastic straps... The one I received has a fuzzy stretchy elastic straps that don't fit all that tightly...This could all possibly be explained by the fact that the ones I received despite having the same NIOSH number as an actual Kimberly Clark listing.Maybe because the ones I received show that they are for industrial use whereas the ones I found on the website photo may be for medical use?... perhaps the straps and the printing ink and lettering are different for different markets with the same NIOSH number?Packaged well and if it's a fake they did include a high gloss detailed instruction booklet of several pages folded out... Very professional looking! if it's a con job they did a good job.Look at all the photos they really made it look real if it's not.
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