Wednesday, 28. November 2007
Category: ECARF Quality Seal, Products, Detergents
The protecting skin of our hands is intensively stressed every day by soaps, aggressive household cleaners, disinfectants and purifying agents increasingly. Despite intensive care allergic skin reactions are increasingly frequent.
The household gloves "Soft and Gentle" have been developed to supply the need of 25 million allergics in Germany.
The natural product latex is replaced by the synthetic product nitrile.
In natural latex the essential proteins which can be found in every creature stabilize the natural rubber particles. Today we know more than 240 natural proteins in natural latex of which, seven are responsible for the so-called "latex allergy". Vileda generally reduces the protein concentration of its gloves to the lowest possible level. Additional,by the gloves are chlorinated on the inside to build a barrier film to the skin.
The household gloves "Soft and Gentle" using the protein-free nitril have been developed especially for the sensible and hygiene-orientated allergics. The independent Research Services Freudenberg confirmed that the gloves are purely natural product composition based on a special testing method that has been developed in close cooperation with ECARF.
The VILEDA gloves "Soft and Gentle", which are also dermatologically proven, are comfortable to wear due to on the inside. In addition the gloves offer a maximum sense of touch, which is important for the so-called "subtle" jobs like washing up, a very long lifetime and a high resistance against dissolvers and cleaning agents.
All sizes are available, for small ,medium and large hands.
For 20 years now Öko-Test has been testing products of all kinds with a particular focus on health care aspects.
The award for the Vileda "Soft and Gentle/Dermo Plus" with the test mark "very good" confirms these quality criteria.
For further information: www.vileda.de

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