Polymer "clay" products being damaged

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I remember seeing people were damaging their polymer clay mitts or towels with certain cleaners. Does anyone have more info to this? And more specifically, will IronX Snow soap cause damage to it?
 
I think products that are anti rubber (don't know what the term is).

Things like TRIX, Tar X, Orange Degreasers, and the like are the ones Ive heard melt the black stuff on the Nanoskin stuff.
 
Tar-X and things that are solvent based will melt the "rubber" material. Other things will damage them as well.
 
So nothing known about Iron X? Of course the soap version won't be as concentrated.... guess I'll just have to find out. Iron X Snow is a great soap and has high lubricity, perfect match for decontaminating with a polymer mitt, so I hope it works out.
 
You don't want to use tar-x with regular clay either. I learned the hard way on that one. It basically melts.
 
I tried to use Tar-X as a sort of clay lube, kill two birds with one stone kind of thing, ruined one of my Nanoskin pads. I believe any organic solvent will ruin these pads. Organic solvents include most petroleum based products, things like tar removers, WD-40, paint thinners, most waxes and sealants. The polymer coating on the "fake clay" is organic, so an organic solvent tries to dissolve it, of course. IPA is a weak organic solvent, don't know about that. Iron-X, not sure if it's in an organic solvent carrier, but I don't think it is, so it might be OK. A really strong detergent behaves like a weak organic solvent (while being in an inorganic solvent carrier, water, which is why detergents are valuable, you get a sort of universal solvent), so my guess is a strong detergent could eat away at a "fake clay."
 
I use IronX Snow soap with regular claybar and it works fine. I don't use it in the foam cannon, just mix it in a 32 oz spray bottle because I get more visible iron dissolving this way. Sometimes the clay will start to break down by the end of process. I do not reuse the clay piece when it does not breakdown.

I have not used it with the clay cloths or mitt either for fear of ruining them.
 
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