Not fit for purpose. (Spontex Disposable Gloves)

Member Name: dooeyyooey

Product:	Spontex Disposable Gloves
Date:	04/07/09 (131 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: May be suitable for small selection of tasks.

Disadvantages: Very fragile, rip easily.

Recently I needed to buy some gloves to use during household tasks, and as my usual brand was out of stock I ended up choosing these Spontex Disposable Gloves.

Packaging
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The gloves come in orange plastic resealable packs, with the Spontex logo in red and blue at the front.

Price
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A pack of 20 gloves costs £1.99.

The Gloves
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They can come in a variety of colours. The pack I got had 10 white gloves and 10 blue ones.

The gloves measure 12 cm at their widest (across the top of the palm), and 24 cm at their longest (from the cuff to the tip of the middle finger).
They only come in this one size, and while they are rather large for my hands, it is quite obvious that they will not fit some larger hands, including those of most men, I should think.

The gloves are very thin and are made of vinyl, not latex, therefore suitable for those with latex allergies.


Useability
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Not great.

Once I have put them on, it's like they are not even there - I can feel everything as if my hands are still bare.

This sensitivity may be thought of as an advantage, but not when it is associated with fragility:

The vinyl is very, VERY thin, and this makes the gloves frail. More than once they have ripped when I was putting them on.

They come out of the pack very much creased for being rolled together in 10s and then stuffed inside the tight packaging, and sometimes they are disformed, as if they had been stretched or pinched.

This tendency to rip means that I am not confident using them for anything else other than the lightest of household tasks - the type where I would rather have some protection for my skin, but if I don't it is still ok.

To use them to handle something I really do not want to come into contact with, I have to wear two gloves in each hand, which really is not cost-effective.

Verdict
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Compared to the sturdiness of the other disposable gloves that I usually buy, these fall very short of the standard that I expect, and are not worth the 10 pence each one of them costs.

Summary: Not really fit to do what they are meant to do: protect the skin of the hands.