| | Coating a Non-Porous Surface with Liquid Latex
When Liquid Latex Body Cosmetic - or Fluorescent Liquid Latex - dries, the liquid latex coating will easily peel off any non-porous surface, including ceramic tiles, wood flooring, all types of metal surfaces, and even skin.
A thin layer of liquid latex, used at room temperature, will surface ‘dry to the touch’ in approximately 5 to 10 minutes. Liquid latex will cure in even less time if the object being coated has been pre-heated in some reasonable way (i.e. in boiling water or in a bake oven).
If you are using liquid latex to coat your body (or some other object not suitable for oven pre-heating), then preparing the surface by using a simple home hair dryer (at low or medium heat) works wonders in speeding up the drying process too! For example, a short metal tube can be easily coated, and cured, in less that 2 minutes if the metal tube can first be pre-heated in boiling water, and then quickly dried before applying the liquid latex coating to the surface.
ONE WORD OF CAUTION:
Always, always be extra careful when handling hot items of any kind.
After the liquid latex coated surface is obviously ‘dry to the touch’, it may then be re-dipped, or re-painted, with additional coats of liquid latex, or even ‘dressed up’ with Rainbow Metallic Pearl Sparkle.
However, keep in mind that during the re-coating process, the rubber coating is still not totally cured. Complete curing takes at least an hour, or so, for the water vapor within the mix to fully evaporate through the surface skin which has been formed. After four hours, the latex is fully cured, and will naturally lift from the surface. A latex coating will easily peel from any non-porous surfaces unless it is somehow ‘anchored’ (body hair can act as an 'anchor' to a liquid latex coating applied to the skin). In the absence of any ‘anchoring’, it is this same characteristic of easy & clean removal of the latex which makes possible today’s manufacturing technology for molded rubber products.
Note: Because Liquid Latex Body Cosmetic and Fluorescent Liquid Latex polymerize by the bonding of sulfur molecules in the latex proteins, any materials which are adversely affected by the presence of sulfur will eventually become corroded by the liquid latex coating. Metals such as iron and copper (and their derivatives) react strongly with rubber forming sulfur compounds. On the other hand, liquid latex will not attack aluminum or stainless steel, nor will it react with most forms of plastic. Before you use our Liquid Latex Body Cosmetic and Fluorescent Liquid Latex on a fabric or other material, we strongly recommend that you first perform a test to determine the results of use on that type of surface.
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