Can anyone recommend a good odourless acrylic?!

[03112009]

Ive been using youngs acrylic for 18 months now and have never had any problems with it. Until. I have just purchased a salon and we are getting complaints about the smell of the liquid. I want to use a good acyrlic that is easy to use and obiviously odourless. I saw on a forum some one recommended opi acrylic 3000 but cannot find this anywhere to buy nor am I sure if its odourless.

Can anyone recommend a decent product as Im getting stick from clients and other people in our building and need to change asap!!

Thanks Michelle

 

[Seraphine]

I adore Vicki Peters Odorless Acrylic!!

You can get it from Bob and Iryna Giblett in Sweden, or Vicki Peters in the US. It's a fantastic monomer, and the powders are awesome. I've been using it for years and it's a joy to work with.

Acrylic System | Iryna Giblett

 

[geeg]

Bit drastic to change you whole system isn't it? Plus I've never seen an odourless system yet that is a patch on normal L&P for looks or durability.

You know, it is so easy to minimise the odour to practically nothing that I can never understand what all the fuss is about! If you are getting allot of odour or complaints about odour ..... do the following.

1. Quit wiping the monomer out of your brush on the paper! Wipe your brush on a pad that has been dampened with Scrub Fresh/sanitizer instead and there will be virtually no odour. Wiping your brush on dry paper is the biggest factor that causes odour in the salon. Only wipe you brush when you have to (which is in between beads ... many techs get into a really bad habit of wiping their brush all the time. There is no need to do it.

2. Always cover your dappen dish immediately after useand avoid using pump dispensers for monomer liquid.

3. Put all used paper and wipes in a lined metal container and empty frequently.

4. Transfer all monomer to the dappen dish with a pipette/dropper to avoid any spillage.

Just doing these simple things will virtually eliminate odour in your working area

FUMES you do not need to worry about as we do not make any fumes working with nail products.

VAPOURS are what we need to eliminate as much as possible as the smell monomer can be detected by the human nose with as little as 5 parts per million in the air.


Personally I would not give in to a few complaints about odour when you can fix the situation with good working habits. Hairdressers make lots of odour from perms etc and people seem to live with that accepting it as part and parcel of th hairdressing business. They need to do the same with nails but we can help by doing the things that reduce odour to a minimum.

 

[dellaznailz]

I can vouch for Gigi's tip, I am also prone to headaches and using this method has reduced then significantly too

If all else fails have to considered changing to gel? A product like CND Brisa will give the same results with zero odour
:hug:

 

[julia_james]

essential nails do a uv odourless acrylic which is brilliant

 

[Unique Nails09]

NSI Spa aroma free is good, like gigi says odourless systems are harder to work with and can cause irritation in some clients. I have a similar problem and have to use odourless monomer. I have been using Spa aroma free for abour 7 months now, it was a pain to get used to as it sets slower than other systmems but now i am comfortable working with it, my clients nails are lasting and looking exactly the same as when i used the 'smelly' monomer and to me there is little difference. I did try all the 'good housekeeping' tips to reduce odour but i still had comments about the smell - so to me i HAD to swap to odourless (some say i should have stuck to my guns and found another salon - but hey at the time we were in a recession and there weren't any other salons advertising for tech's to rent a chair)

xx

 

[ValencianNails]

NSI Spa aroma free is good, like gigi says odourless systems are harder to work with and can cause irritation in some clients. I have a similar problem and have to use odourless monomer. I have been using Spa aroma free for abour 7 months now, it was a pain to get used to as it sets slower than other systmems but now i am comfortable working with it, my clients nails are lasting and looking exactly the same as when i used the 'smelly' monomer and to me there is little difference. I did try all the 'good housekeeping' tips to reduce odour but i still had comments about the smell - so to me i HAD to swap to odourless (some say i should have stuck to my guns and found another salon - but hey at the time we were in a recession and there weren't any other salons advertising for tech's to rent a chair)

xx

Most definitely... odourless L+P is higher up the sensitivity ladder than 'traditional' L+P.

As Della said, you could (if you really needed to) change to using UV gel, I agree with her choice too as Brisa has the 'backbone' of Retention+ liquid so it's very strong, gives fantastic longevity, doesn't discolour and is a dream to work with. Can you tell I love it :green: