Since the outbreak of the pandemic, they have adorned our streets in a questionable way: disposable gloves which, together with face coverings, are thrown into public trash cans in the better case, or simply onto the ground in the worse one. They serve as protection against smear infection, for example when pushing a shopping cart, when touching grab rails and seats on buses and trains, or when in contact with door handles and light switches in public buildings and offices.
Certainly a sensible measure, considering that COVID-19 pathogens, but also numerous other viruses and bacteria, can survive for many days under favorable conditions on surfaces such as plastic, metal or textiles. No one can safely assume comprehensive disinfection, let alone self-disinfection, of the surfaces we come into contact with every day.
Gloves provide only inadequate protection against infection
Here, however, the first problem with gloves already becomes apparent: they do protect our hands from SARS-CoV-2 viruses and other germs, but not the surfaces we touch with these gloves. A tickling hair is all it takes, and in an inattentive moment you brush your hand across your face. We handle wallets, car keys, handbags and many other objects that we continue to use after the train ride, after shopping or after a visit to the doctor.
But even if we carefully disinfect every object we have touched, disposable gloves are no cure-all: What if no gloves are available? What if the material is not tolerated? Or if you are simply looking for a waste-saving alternative?
Can’t the entire system be completely rethought?
Safe and invisible protection against viruses and bacteria
The ideal would be protection like an invisible yet completely reliable “glove” that produces neither skin irritation nor waste and can be worn all day without impairing the sense of touch.
It would be perfect if this “glove” were, in addition, so repellent to viruses and bacteria when touching contaminated surfaces that they could not settle on the hand.
Rethinking here means: instead of putting on a physical glove with protective properties, why not equip the hand itself with these capabilities!
This is possible with a dermatologically completely harmless protective liquid that settles on the skin like an invisible “glove”, so ultra-thin that the layer cannot be perceived with the bare senses.
Germ-repellent and gentle on the skin
NP® Glove replaces the physical glove by giving the skin germ-repellent properties that prevent viruses and bacteria from taking hold. The protection lasts all day, even if the skin is washed several times with soap or disinfected with conventional products, and even offers additional skin protection against drying cleaning agents.