To make a glove on your own arm.
It is best to have another person assist you in making a glove. Pour the Liquid Latex into a plastic or stainless steel bowl. You must let it breathe for a while for most of the ammonia to evaporate. Dip your fingers into the bowl, lift your hand and let the excess drip off. Smooth the latex using a foam (not a bristle) brush or with your hand to make an even coat. Continue to brush or splash on latex to the thickness you want. Spread your fingers and do not bend or fold your hand. Wherever there is a folding, the latex will stick to itself and form a weak spot. Let the latex air dry or use a hair dryer set on medium. Be sure to hold your hands up. The latex will start to dry, darken, and turn shiny. Usually there will be thick spots. Be patient until the entire surface becomes shiny and dark. The latex is now cured enough to touch- but it will also stick to itself, so be sure to keep the rubbered surfaces away from each other. Now do a second coat the same way. If you want to have a reusable glove, then do another three to four coats. When you have completed the last coat and it has fully cured, spray your arm with a compound like No-Touch latex preservative or dust with powder. This will keep the fingers from sticking unless you want to get into a theatrical or bondage scene, in which the rubber sticking together can have other uses ;-) The longer you leave the latex on, the more complete will be the cure and the more perfect will be the glove. The glove will begin loosening itself after three or four hours. You may actually remove the glove as soon as you have finished this process, but it will be better to leave it on longer. Some people have left their gloves on overnight or for several days. To remove the glove, start rolling it off at the top/wrist and begin pulling. If you have made it thick enough, it will come off as a reusable glove. Some dye residue may remain if the rubber is not totally dry, but this is washed off with soap and water. You can use the clear amber latex first and then the colored latex. It is recommended that any part to be dipped is free of hair first.
To make a glove (or hood, or...) from a plaster casting.
We will not cover plaster casting or mold making in detail because it's covered in numerous books and other sources on the WWW. Basically you have to make a plaster casting of the body part you want molded. Let's say you've cast a solid positive casting of your hand. Warm the plaster casting in the oven to 105/110 degrees and (carefully) dip the warm casting into a container of latex. The plaster absorbs the water quickly, and a glove begins curing rapidly due to the casting's warmth. After it's dry, additional coats of Latex can be applied, but don't put your coated plaster cast back in the oven w/ Latex on it! The heat will cause your Latex to bubble and distort. With this process, you can use our product to mass-produce your own finished Latex items in wild color combinations not possible before now!
