I’m at my wit’s end. My barn requires masks while riding. I practically need windshield wipers for my glasses, particularly in the indoor. I have tried the soap trick (works fine for the gym, not when I put my helmet on.) My vision is so compromised I am a liability to myself and everyone around me while riding. I am not a candidate for contacts or LASIK and I am nigh onto legally blind without them so I can’t just take them off. My mask fits as well as it can, I use a nose wire, and I even put my glasses on top of the mask to seal it better (this helped.) Has anyone found anything of the spray or lens coating variety that works?
Anti-fog sprays and other treatments for glasses that need windshield wipers when you have a mask on
try 3M skin tape over the bridge of the nose sealing mask upper edge. I have been wearing masks at work for over 15 years. The wipes and sprays work OK when the ambient temps are near room temp. For outdoor / cooler temps or when you are heated from athletics, I have found only the tape works. I shoot archery in mask and that is one place you cannot afford glasses steaming.
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THANK YOU!
Double thanks!
I have to wear goggles at the barn since eye surgery. I spend a lot of time wiping the fog from the inside of those “fog-free” goggles.
Not a glasses wearer so take my advice with a grain of salt, but I am an elementary school teacher and some of my students are really struggling with this issue (inside and outside for recess). One of my students who hasn’t had issues puts shaving cream on the inside and wipes it off (leaving a thin film kind of) and that works really well for her! Her mom heard about it from a surgeon friend who regularly handled the issue before COVID in long surgeries wearing glasses. I’ve also heard that masks in this style (with the separate over nose section) can really cut down/eliminate fog. Hope you find a fix soon, that’s so frustrating!
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I tried shaving cream technique and found it did not work very well.
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The Etsy shop appears to be non-working, but I promise you, the mask with the no-gap strap from Lee & Pearl works.
http://www.leeandpearl.com/shop.html
They make doll clothes, but recently turned their skills to masks - http://www.leeandpearl.com/2020_0511_newsletter.html
They sell out quickly but if you can get some of these masks (or use their pattern which they give away for free), you will never fog again unless may be you open the dishwasher while wearing a mask.
Read a good review just today of the Warby Parker eyeglass cleaning kit which supposedly really helps with fogging.
Have to say, it’s sure been easier to switch to contacts with the cooler weather coupled with normal human exhalent when wearing glasses.
At work we have to wear safety glasses and have gone through many kinds of sprays trying to find one that works.
We finally have the answer … but I forgot the name of the stuff. I’ll look at the box tomorrow and get back with you. It doesn’t work for very long, maybe a day? But certainly long enough for a ride!
the shaving cream trick is what we used on lab goggles for years. It works pretty well.
The solution for me was using a gaiter - I know some don’t agree with it, but it moves the air down from my nose and mouth instead of up, and I can put a double fold over my nose which seems to trap the moisture.
I have to wear safety glasses at work and the anti fogging sprays were useless. I found that the Bausche-Lomb lens cleaner “Sight Savers” worked really well. Wiped my glasses Monday and haven’t needed to wipe them again yet
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I tried these, double folded like you do. My nose hooks down, and the gaiter just falls right off, a victim of physics. Unfortunate because I acquired a collection of good-looking gaiters.
Add a nose wire to the gaiter? Or elastic over the ears? Use the afore-mentioned tape to the edge of the gaiter?
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The tape really helped for my ride this morning.
Usually both my glasses and my sunglasses fog up so much that I can hardly see. This morning the fogging up was minimal and off to one side. I could SEE!!! I did not have to take my face mask off for riding either.
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Could somebody put up a link to the skin tape? There seem to be a number when I google it.
Thanks!
Sounds interesting! There appears to be multiple options if I Google “3M skin tape”. Which ones should I look at? Thank you in advance!
Shaving cream does NOT work. Nor does Dawn dish soap, which was also suggested to me by a friend. I’m going to try and find the 3M skin tape!
