We used plastic and rubber gloves for Vapor Barrier protection of hands for many years. They were effective but plastic is uncomfortable. Moisturizing hand lotions also help but don’t give near the potential extra warmth, and don’t keep gloves dry, a main objective of Vapor Barrier gloves.
Vapor Barrier glove liners made from Fuzzy Stuff solve those problems and provide all benefits of Vapor Barrier with the comfort of a soft knit glove and much longer life than any other Vapor Barrier glove liners. Sizing is the only problem since hands vary so much and there are no real standards.
For glove sizing, send your hand tracing and measurement around the widest part of palm. We’ll send our best guess for best fit, and will quickly exchange for another size if too small or large.
Use Vapor Barrier gloves for your first layer, then knit gloves over the Vapor Barrier, finish with thick mitts or thick gloves depending on temperature. When you need finger dexterity you can remove mitts and still have some protection.
The Vapor Barrier liner blocks the skin from wind chill, reduces loss of humidity, and thus reduces evaporative cooling at your skin. This is particularly important in extreme cold climates and conditions. In those conditions breathability and wickability can actually be deadly, you need to keep moisture from being absorbed by your insulating layers. These gloves keep the sweat and moisture loss at your hands from getting to your insulating layers, they also work as a wind breaker to keep wind chill off your hands. As heat is lost through your hands and also prevents against frostbite.
