Doug Schoon
Chemistry Geek
JTB, Your method for determining cure is flawed and will produce incorrect results. Heat spikes are not just proportional to the amount of photo initiators, nor do heat spikes give any indication of how the product is curing, other than too fast. This is but one component that must be considered and you are over simplifying things. Heat spikes tell nothing about the degree of cure or the potential for adverse skin reactions from under cured products.
And you are overcomplicating the issues at the same time. Your explanations are basically unreadable to most, so you are not providing useful information. I seriously doubt that you have the proper equipment or training to make the UV measurements that are needed, nor are you likely to have the necessary scientific equipment to determine the rate or degree of polymerization (cure). So you dont have the basic information you need to develop your own system, yet that is what you are attempting to do when you pick and choose UV gels and lamp combinations.
But it seems your real goal is to thumb your nose at the systems approach. Thats ok for you to do, but to encourage others to do so is incorrect and irresponsible in my view. If you end up in court, what are you going to do? What company or expert is going to stand up and say you followed directions? Who will testify that you had the clients safety in mind? I doubt that anyone would back up the choice you seem to have made for yourself. I would not and would likely testify that you misused the products and intentionally ignored directions.
I do understand the technicalities of theses lamps and chemical systems and have studied them using the correct equipment. I can tell you that you are incorrect to use one lamp with all UV gels. In fact, you are sounding those who sell UV nail lamps claiming they will work on any UV gel, simply by altering the cure times. They do that for their convenience, not for the nail techs; just as you are using one lamp for your convenience, and not for your customers. All these nail lamp companies want to do is sell their lamps and they dont care about proper curing or avoiding adverse skin reactions, which is another risk of using the incorrect lamps. Have you considered that by improperly curing your UV gels, that you increase the likelihood of developing adverse skin reactions? Thats also a problem caused by using the incorrect UV gel with the incorrectly nail lamp and likely why UV gels appear to be more likely to cause adverse skin reaction than other types of artificial nail coating.
So in short, you are incorrect to suggest using UV gel with the correct lamp is just for the convenience of the manufacturers. It would be more convenient for manufacturers if these systems did work with any nail lamp. I wish it were possible to make a universal nail lamp or UV gel, but it is NOT and your suggestion to the contrary is NOT based on fact, but instead, on your own unsubstantiated beliefs.
And you are overcomplicating the issues at the same time. Your explanations are basically unreadable to most, so you are not providing useful information. I seriously doubt that you have the proper equipment or training to make the UV measurements that are needed, nor are you likely to have the necessary scientific equipment to determine the rate or degree of polymerization (cure). So you dont have the basic information you need to develop your own system, yet that is what you are attempting to do when you pick and choose UV gels and lamp combinations.
But it seems your real goal is to thumb your nose at the systems approach. Thats ok for you to do, but to encourage others to do so is incorrect and irresponsible in my view. If you end up in court, what are you going to do? What company or expert is going to stand up and say you followed directions? Who will testify that you had the clients safety in mind? I doubt that anyone would back up the choice you seem to have made for yourself. I would not and would likely testify that you misused the products and intentionally ignored directions.
I do understand the technicalities of theses lamps and chemical systems and have studied them using the correct equipment. I can tell you that you are incorrect to use one lamp with all UV gels. In fact, you are sounding those who sell UV nail lamps claiming they will work on any UV gel, simply by altering the cure times. They do that for their convenience, not for the nail techs; just as you are using one lamp for your convenience, and not for your customers. All these nail lamp companies want to do is sell their lamps and they dont care about proper curing or avoiding adverse skin reactions, which is another risk of using the incorrect lamps. Have you considered that by improperly curing your UV gels, that you increase the likelihood of developing adverse skin reactions? Thats also a problem caused by using the incorrect UV gel with the incorrectly nail lamp and likely why UV gels appear to be more likely to cause adverse skin reaction than other types of artificial nail coating.
So in short, you are incorrect to suggest using UV gel with the correct lamp is just for the convenience of the manufacturers. It would be more convenient for manufacturers if these systems did work with any nail lamp. I wish it were possible to make a universal nail lamp or UV gel, but it is NOT and your suggestion to the contrary is NOT based on fact, but instead, on your own unsubstantiated beliefs.
