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You'll receive 500gr bagSkin Safe, Chromatic (colour changing) Alginate is a non-toxic, non-allergenic moulding material (seaweed plant extract), which is safe to use on all areas of the body. Its chromatic feature ensures ease of use as it changes colour during the mixing and setting process giving you a visual indication at each stage of the process. Three colours, Purple, Pink and White - it's a three working periods.
This listing for Regular Set Alginate.
Regular Set Alginate has longer working time than Fast Set Alginate. More time - no need to rush, less panic.
English Instruction.
Spearmint flavour.
Shelf time 2 years.
Room Temperature | Mixing Time | Working Time |
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23C | 45 secs | 2 min |
Retarding agent allows to double mixing/working time of Alginate. No rush and no worries if warm water in use or large working area.
Handy if casting torso or belly. One of the characteristics of Alginate is that the thicker the mix, the faster it sets. So if you mix it too thick, it may set up too fast before you can apply it. While casting torso or belly, mixture should be thick (hard consistency), as could slide off of the body if soft mixture. You need a thicker mix so that the Alginate stays in place as it is applied. So, you need extended mixing/working time of Alginate - Retarding agent its a solution.
If you needed for extra time to apply on large areas of body.
Useful if large amount of Alginate in use. Just imagine, you need mix 1.5 Ltr of mixture and add your molding object in 45 secs (for a full 500g bag of alginate you would add 1500ml of water).
Handy in case of newborn 3D casting. It is nearly impossible to do hand/foot moulding on newborns and babies up to 3 years of age, because newborns and babies up to 3 years of age don’t understand and they don’t keep still long enough, they wriggling (mostly) while you taking moulding of their limb. If they wrigle limb that critical moment, those few sec when gel setting, moulding will be failed. In such cases only asleep babies it's a solution. But asleep babies are very sensitive to water temperature. Working temperature of Alginate (21/23°С) too cold and can awaken baby if you taking moulding on asleep baby, and your process can be ruined. If we increasing water temperature up to body temperature (36°С), suitable for asleep babies, Alginate working/mixing time reduced significantly (up to 10/20 secs) - no time to mix properly and put limb in to gel. In this case we have solution - ALGINATE RETARDING AGENT, which allows to increase working/mixing time twice.
20g per 500g of Alginate approx. doubles setting time.
Dissolve in water - done!
Dosage can be adjusted to suit. Please use enclosed instruction.
Each bag (500gr) of Alginate included 20gr of Alginate retarding agent (if retarding agent option chosen).
Approximate Alginate Quantities
100g in a suitable container is enough for a baby hand or foot. The
number of casts depends on age of baby, the skills and size of moulding container in use.
500g of alginate would be enough for a medium
size hand or breast. Enclosed areas of the body such as the breasts will
require a modroc bandage to encase the moulding to maintain the moulding
shape.
A large adult male hand will require approx 675g of alginate.
An adult foot would require 2 x 500g, however this amount is dependent on the size of the foot and the container used.
A face moulding would require 500g alginate and again a modroc bandage would be used to support the moulding.
A
full neck to crotch pregnant belly would require 4-5 bag, if
attempting this cast ensure you have successfully cast small areas as
this is a very demanding cast. Torso up to 3 bag. A large amount of
modroc bandages would be required to support this large moulding.
A bum cast from mid back to upper thighs would require approx 4 bag of alginate and approx 8 rolls of modroc to support moulding.
As with all fast setting moulding materials preparation is crucial, have all quantities and materials measured and ready for use. Ensure that the model is aware before starting of how they should pose, perform a dry run to avoid material wastage, if casting hands ensure model is aware not to curl fingers as air may get trapped underneath the fingers.
If moulding hands or feet, you can use polythene bags or drink bottles or a plastic containers. The advantage of using plastic containers is, that the container will in turn become a support jacket for the mould however you do use more material with a container than plastic bags.
If casting onto any area with long hair, use a petroleum jelly such as Vaseline to act as a barrier, do not use the petroleum jelly on non hairy areas such as breasts as the alginate will slide off.