Cheaper than those piddly little cans of helmet mousse. Highly flammable! Illegal in many jurisdictions. Extremely effective.

Yes I know you can buy cans of denatured alcohol much cheaper but they have acetone and methylated ketones and who knows what else to make them poisonous, well more poisonous, and I’m not sure how those additives affect the helmet materials.

edit: turns out acetone is a solvent for polystyrene.

Edited August 6, 20197 yr by dan williams

Not as fast but I find using a spray bottle of white vinegar over my helmet and then left to fully air out and then give it a good spray down with just water to remove the residual vinegar smell seems to disinfect mine fine. 

Edited August 4, 20197 yr by jonnyc21

I didn't even know that disinfecting was a thing. I just wash my helmets out with warm water.

I've been using Lysol for ages, worked for me 

Guy

Yeah but the residual smell of vinegar or Lysol would drive me crazy. This stuff dries leaving only a residue of water. I’ve been using it for a year or so on the new carbon Jitsie my wife got me and it seems to work the best of anything I’ve tried. Pretty much de-stank my old NZIs too. Supposedly illegal where I live but the local store has it on the shelf so...

4 hours ago, dan williams said:

Yeah but the residual smell of vinegar or Lysol would drive me crazy. This stuff dries leaving only a residue of water. I’ve been using it for a year or so on the new carbon Jitsie my wife got me and it seems to work the best of anything I’ve tried. Pretty much de-stank my old NZIs too. Supposedly illegal where I live but the local store has it on the shelf so...

Dan what would be a common use for that Everclear product? There's nothing like that available here.

9 hours ago, dan williams said:

 on the new carbon Jitsie

That helmet has a removable liner. I can't think of any reason why you would prefer to do this than remove the liner and machine wash it...

Edited August 5, 20197 yr by faussy

Dan, if you let the Lysol sprayed helmet ( and all the other stinky protective gear ) on the shelf or outside when possible, there is no residual smell. It would also drive me crasy.

Guy

2 hours ago, faussy said:

That helmet has a removable liner. I can't think of any reason why you would prefer to do this than remove the liner and machine wash it...

Last time I machine washed a liner I pulled a mass of threads and foam pads out of the machine.

7 hours ago, feetupfun said:

Dan what would be a common use for that Everclear product? There's nothing like that available here.

Two words, college students. Essentially pure ethanol. Used for making your own fortified wine, liqueur, ER visit for alcohol poisoning.... 

10 minutes ago, dan williams said:

Last time I machine washed a liner I pulled a mass of threads and foam pads out of the machine.

Ive washed my own jitsie liner dozens of times and its still in good condition. Unless you are dousing and rinsing it out with the alcohol you aren't actually cleaning, just masking bad smells. 

Edited August 5, 20197 yr by faussy

1 hour ago, faussy said:

Ive washed my own jitsie liner dozens of times and its still in good condition. Unless you are dousing and rinsing it out with the alcohol you aren't actually cleaning, just masking bad smells. 

Killing the bacteria that cause the smell.

I hand wash my removable liner with some regular hair shampoo - it seems to work, smells nice and presumably isn't unkind to my head.

Arai recommend washing in baby shampoo and warm water (I use the shower).  Mind you it takes about a week to dry out.

33 minutes ago, dan williams said:

Killing the bacteria that cause the smell.

But you still have a dirty sweaty helmet. Same reason we don't wash our drawers in alcohol ?

Edited August 5, 20197 yr by faussy