If I’m just putting on my mask for a couple of pictures as I’m not to walk around in for an extended period of time I don’t have to cornstarch it after right?
If you don’t leave perspiration , you should be fine. To play safe, get a pair of pantyhose , cut out two holes for your eyes, and put it on you face when wearing the mask.
So is pollen, cigarettes and exhaust fumes but a light dusting of it on a mask isn’t going to do much if anything. If youre a miner in a talc mine with talc in the air it MIGHT be a problem BUT mining anything can be a problem for lungs due to it being in THE AIR such as coal, but guess what, people don’t have much of a problem using coal. Asbestos is airborne and microscopic(3-5 microns) and the gravity isn’t enough to pull it out of the air. It does much more in the way of scarring and thickening the alveoli(air sacs) making oxygenation difficult. Talc you might use is nowhere near asbestos. In the grand scheme of things wearing a mask occasionally with a “light dusting” of it isn’t going to do more damage to your lungs than living in downtown New York.
And to the cigarette comment. Those cigarettes were laced with bronchodilating drugs. It was the only way to get them deposited in the lungs. It’s a far cry from giving a pack of Pall Malls to someone in the middle of an asthma attack and saying “smoke up Johnny”
I don’t argue your point but i think the corn starch is better at absorbing . Talc I believe is more used against chaffing a babys skin then absorbing.
Don’t use powder. Talc is dangerous. It has been used for decades by mothers on their children and now thousands of people have cancer from it. Johnson and Johnson knew about the dangers and they are now being sued for billions of dollars.
The crazy thing is, it is the corn starch in the powder mixture that absorbs moisture. So they never needed talc in the first place.
And yes, always use a little corn starch after wearing a mask. If you want the mask to last a long time.
If you’re not in the medical field and working in pulmonology you might want to stop spreading “headline garbage” you read. There is zero evidence that talc causes cancer. ZERO. The nonsense you’re talking about is 22 women that claimed the J and J baby powder had ASBESTOS in it. It wasn’t the talc. And it had to do with uterine cancer from genital use on postmenopausal women only. Had nothing to do with kids and babies and talc. It was a case only unique to J and J and their baby powder not against producers and sellers of talc. J and J alledgedly hid the fact that asbestos was in their product. That’s why the women collected on their claim of 4.4 billion. One other study shows miners of talc had increased risk in the past. Why? Because asbestos naturally occurs on some talc in UNPURIFIED FORM. Yes asbestos is a natural product, not man-made and that does indeed CAUSE CANCER. STOP SPREADING UNTRUTHS. Here’s to spending more time playing billiards and more of us shaking 100% talc on our hands for smooth play. Yes, by all means, use it on your mask.
Over 5,000 people have sued Johnson & Johnson over its marketing of talcum powder. Historically talc has not been separated from the asbestos’s it naturally forms with. Only recently is that being done. But, now most of the powder comes from China where there are no standards or regulations. It is pretty simple, corn starch is the ingredient that soaks up moisture, so stick with that, since you can’t know for sure the safety of the powder you are using, particularly if it came from China. .