glynis said:
I can assure you that, with all other factors being equal (amount of spray, ventilation etc.) my reaction varies enormously from one brand to another.
I have read before that all activators are virtually the same, I have also read somewhere that all resins are virtually the same. It makes me wonder how some of the bigger brand names justify their prices. The company I trained with charge approximately three times more for their activator than the company I now buy from. There is no difference in the performance of the products (apart from my alergies).
Also, if "activator sprays contain virtually the same ingredients ... only the smell varies from system to system" , what is the problem in mixing and matching according to personal preference?
Well love , the keyword here is
virtually......lol.......
Yes all resins are virtually the same, all EC based, but it's the quality of the ingredients that makes one resin better then another......
The same goes for Activators, they all have
virtually the same key ingredients to make the molucules to their stuff, but it is again the quality and purity of those ingredients , that determine the price....
Then there is the quality of the packaging, cheap low end of the market or the higher end of the market....
Take the blast spray activator for instance..............
A much finer mist, due to the better desing of the spray bottle for one.........
The liquid it self has smaller molecules and gives with the correct dosage of spray, to get the requierd effect........polymerisation.......
Now I ones ran out of blast spray and used a normal activator................and thank god tried it out on my own nails............well I hit the roof..........the heat was so fierce......The spray mist was not as fine as the blast mist and not tuned to be used with Farbic#...Also the vapours, would have knocked an elephant of his hind legs.........But you wouldn't have known to look at the mist..............
So if a system is developed, by a company that has it's own
laboratory you can be sure that it has been developed to be used safley and most efficiently , within it's own system products ...but it probably wont work as well or as efficiently if it is mixed and matched with a different branded system..............And probably wont preform as well..............
Just the same as L&P, you wouldn't mix and match them either..............
Monomers are all virtualy the same, but hey we all know that they are not.....
because if they where, we could mix and match them too..............
