- Hi, I'm Parris and summer is starting early
in Texas this year.
It's supposed to be 90 degrees out this afternoon.
So, the last time I was at the store, this caught my eye.
It's the Enduracool cooling towel.
It has some magical properties, so that when you
get it wet and you snap it a few times, put in on your skin,
it's supposed to drop skin temperature
by about 30 degrees Fahrenheit.
Well, that's not bad for 15 dollars, but this cost a dollar.
Can it do the same thing?
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with an item you already have at home.
Now, this is supposed to be a special material
that will evaporate the water very quickly
but it's supposed to not block the infrared radiation
that your skin gives off.
So, in other words, if you have this on you,
even if it's wet and evaporating and cooling you down,
the fact that this material is on you
is reflecting heat back to your body and keeping you warm.
So, you have those opposing forces.
Supposedly, this doesn't send the heat back to your body
and so, it can actually keep you much cooler.
I picked it up for about 15 dollars over at Fry's.
They have tons of colors and patterns
and designs for this towel.
You can find out more about at the link
down below this video.
Now, whether you're a parent or a child,
you've probably experienced evaporative cooling,
where you get something wet, when the water changes
from liquid form to gaseous form.
It takes some heat with it as it leaves the object
and so there's cooling.
And the face cloth folded this way and this way
and dipped in a bowl and put on your forehead,
when you have a fever, is probably something
almost everyone's experienced.
So, does this work significantly better,
so that it's worth spending the money for this?
Now, it looks like, kinda feels like a chamois cloth
you use to do that final finishing touch
when you're waxing your car.
Very sporty looking, and no way you're going to misplace it
with it being this color.
The other side looks like this.
It doesn't seem to have the raised bit of material
that a chamois has and man, is it thin.
It feels like a single layer of clothing.
I wonder if it inflates when you put water in it
and gets thicker, because otherwise, I don't see how
it's going to hold much water to last very long.
It seems like you'd need to continually re-dip it.
So, I'm going to get these both wet, wring them both out,
I guess I'll snap this one, just for good measure,
and then put it on my skin and give you
the subjective experience of which one's cooler,
as well as the objective experience
using my infrared thermometer.
Then, I'll go out this afternoon, when it's 90
and give 'em both a try.
In here, it is 73 degrees, with 51 percent humidity.
The humidity does make a difference to either of these.
Even if this is magical, if you have high humidity,
you're not gonna get nearly as much evaporation.
And the instructions for the Enduracool cloth
say to machine wash this in cold water before first use.
So, I'm gonna throw them both in a quick load
and I'll be back to try 'em out.
I have both fresh from the washing machine,
both still damp.
I've turned off the ceiling fan in this room
and the temperature is 73 degrees,
now at 46 percent humidity
and I can tell you, I did notice right away,
when I pulled them out of the washing machine,
this feels colder.
Let me see if there's evidence to support that.
66 degrees.
70 degrees.
So, there is a small difference,
just in the surface temperature of each of these items.
Interesting.
But for full effect, with the Enduracool,
you need to get it wet, wring it out, and then snap it
three to five times, put it down for a minute and wait
and then it should be at its very coldest
and able to cool you down the most.
So, here we go.
Back in the water.
This water is room temperature.
It's about 72 degrees from the kitchen.
This, by the way, did not fluff up from getting wet.
So, I don't know how much water it's going to hold on to.
So, I have wrung it out and it's snapping time.
And set it here.
And then I'll do the same with the face cloth.
Snap it as well.
Give 'em both a minute, check the temperature,
and then I'm gonna try them on me.
Alright, they should be at maximum coolness.
Let's check out the Enduracool first.
69 degrees.
Surface isn't really that cool.
71 degrees.
Still a slight difference between them.
I'm now going to put both of them over my arm here.
90,
89.
So, we know what we're working with there.
We're gonna take this, doesn't matter which side I use.
I don't suppose.
Green side looks cooler.
I'm gonna put the green side on the skin here
and face cloth up here.
They both feel cool,
but to make my skin surface temperature 30 degrees cooler
means it should show up about 60 degrees,
once I take this off and measure it.
So, take both off.
89,
87.
Yeah, I didn't think this was making
as good of surface contact and I do have the issue
of having some hair.
Where else can I test this?
Well, let's try a subjective test.
Let me snap 'em out and try a subjective test on the neck.
This does feel much cooler after the snapping.
Pretty similar.
I found a flat, hairless spot to try this out on.
Right here.
Let me get an original temperature here.
Don't shine it in the eyes.
94 degrees.
Okay.
Let's see how much I can reduce it,
just like when you're sick, taking a wet cloth
and putting it on the forehead.
Ah, it's cool.
I'll hold it so it's pressing against the skin
and I'll give it a minute and then I'll take a temperature.
I see some squirrels in the yard, looking at me like.
Okay, here we go.
86 degrees.
Well, we do have a noticeable reduction in temperature
but it's 8 degrees, not the 30 degrees in cooling
that can happen.
Let's see what the face cloth can do.
92 and a half.
Okay, let's see.
86 degrees.
So, both of these reduced my temperature to 86.
This one from 94.
This one from 92.
Still very similar.
I'm formulating a theory about this,
which I'll be able to test out shortly,
when we get to 90 degrees outside.
Alright, here's my attempting to be scientific
but probably not so scientific test of the Enduracool cloth
outdoors when it's hot.
How hot is it?
I'm getting a temperature reading of 86
with a fairly low humidity of 36 percent.
I'm going to try both of these out on each side of my neck
and see which one seems cooler.
Yes, I'm sitting out on my front porch,
people walking by, wondering what I am doing.
It's snapping time.
Let me get them both wet.
Bowl of water has been outside here for about 10, 15 minutes
but it still feels like the water's pretty cool.
Quick temperature check.
73.9,
71.7.
Couple degrees cooler.
What's the temperature on my neck anyway?
Look, I'm giving myself a shot
in a futuristic Star Trek days.
McCoy says I'm 95.0.
Alright.
Nice and cool.
Same, I think.
Feels like most of the cooling
that's going to happen has happened.
89,
91.
Very similar to what I experienced indoors.
So, what's going on and how can this really
drop your temperature 30 degrees?
Well, here's what I think.
This is going to have that sort of major effect
when you are hot in addition to it being hot out.
I think this really is when you're doing sports
and you've increased your temperature.
You're giving off heat, you're probably out in the sun,
so you have the sun on you and the air temperature is
up at 100, 110 degrees.
I imagine your skin temperature could get up to 120
and if that's the case, you take something like this,
put it on the skin, I could see it very rapidly
and temporarily bringing the skin temperature down
to about 90 degrees, which is what's normal,
but it's only gonna have that kind of drastic effect
when you yourself are overheated.
It can bring you back down to normal.
It's not gonna take me,, sitting here in the shade,
with a 98.6 temperature and drop my skin temperature
down to 60 or 70 degrees.
The other question of whether it's worth spending
15 dollars for this or a dollar for this,
the results don't seem to be too different.
I didn't see that special infrared pass through technology
where this allows the heat of your body to radiate out,
where this one traps it in.
There's only a couple degrees difference
between the cooling that the two of these provide.
However, do you wanna be seen out on the tennis court,
out on the golf course with this wrapped around your neck
or this?
You can find out more about the Enduracool
at the link down below this video.
I will not link to the face cloth.
You can find these anywhere.
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