HELIX.iso™ Masks

Product Features

Features of the HELIX.iso™ Mask:

• Durable, breathable, quick-drying, and washable. A polypropylene fabric was sourced which provides these essentials.
• Adjustable metal nose wire ensures the best seal possible
• Mask body is one size, fit is altered by the length of the elastic ear loops. These are available in two lengths, standard and large.
• Fitted with a HELIX.iso™ filter protection is provided >80% at 0.3micron
• Fitted with a HELIX.iso™+ filter protection is provided >90% at 0.3micron

  Using the HELIX.iso™ Mask system:

• Fit and replace filters as often as possible
• Contaminated filters should be removed and disposed of safely.
• Wash the mask regularly with filter removed
• Filters are made by Lanaco

  How the HELIX.iso™ Mask system fits in:

1. Surgical masks (SP) The rectangular pleated blue or green ones that doctors use are low cost and are designed to protect others from the exhaled breath of the wearer, and to protect the wearer from blood splatters etc. (NOT 0.3-micron particles or virus particles). These are not ideal for protection from exposure when out of your bubble, or working in the front line of Covid19.
2. The HELIX.iso™ Mask uses a special filter called HELIX.iso™, which users can fit and replace as often as possible. This mask and filter system is cost-effective, reusable and is easy breathing. Correctly fitted, the mask with a HELIX.iso™ filter provides a high level of protection. A contaminated filter must be thrown away safely.
3. N95 or P2 or FFP2 masks These are workplace standards from the US, AU/NZ, and EU respectively. They are designed to protect the wearer from fine particles (0.3 microns) at high flow rates (around 80 - 85 litres/min). They are not designed to be worn for long periods and are designed to fit adults in the workplace. The breathing resistance levels required by these standards are high, meaning to be effective they require a tight face fit, and usually a high strap pressure to maintain the seal. This means they will capture dangerous particles even at high breathing rates more than 95%. The breathing resistance of an N95 mask will be up to 240Pa to comply, where a HELIX.iso™ filter is 10Pa. Depending on the use an N95 has a higher propensity to leak on inhaling and exhale, or to prevent this will have very high and uncomfortable levels of strap pressure to prevent leakage.