With Covid-19 all around, everyone is now FOMO to get the mask but unfortunately almost everywhere is sold out especially those mask with good filtering. We know that the cloth masks isn’t helping much but we have some good news for you!
Here is some good way that you can create your own DIY cloth face mask and summore with air filter and not those pariah masks so no need to go out and FOMO for masks!
This is DIY self made cloth masks that is being recommended by a Taiwanese Doctor that comes along with air filter so that you can stay safe during this crucial time! You know la .. all the masks is being sapu and nowaday, got money also hard to buy masks. This Taiwan doctor has come up with a brilliant method to cope if you’re having trouble getting your hands on them.
On Wednesday (12 Feb), AsiaOne reports that Dr Chen Xiaoting, a Taiwanese anaesthesiologist, shared instructions on creating a cloth face mask on Facebook.
Better still, this DIY masks is unlike surgical masks where these face masks can be washed and used reused regularly.
How to do it? Here’s how you can make your own.
You need to gathering components of surgical masks. Surgical masks are made from “melt-blown, non-woven fabric”. They have a 3-layer structure comprising materials like:
- Waterproof non-woven layer (front)
- Microfibre melt-blown non-woven fabric (middle)
- Ordinary non-woven fabric (back)
Dr Chen was able to make the cloth face mask work by adding an opening to place filters – also known as a microfibre melt-blown non-woven fabric – in the middle. In his Facebook post, Dr Chen highlights the 4-step process for creating a face mask which is as below
- Buy cloth for the mask
- Find a tailor to create the mask
- Get a surgical mask as a size sample for the tailor
- Place non-woven cloth as an air filter
He used a piece of blue cloth, measured at 30 x 105 cm, which was worth S$10.95 (55 yuan) per foot. Afterward, he went to a tailor and after 30 minutes, the cloth face mask born.
The most important is the middle layer. He inserted an item that could act as a filter or a “microfibre melt-blown non-woven fabric.” The doctor placed a “non-woven cloth” in the opening of the mask. In this example, he inserted wet tissues that were dried, but using toilet paper is fine too. No wonder toilet paper is also part of the hot items!
You can also check out the full guide here as well:
Summore with the creation of this DIY mask, you can have whatever pattern/fashion you like and your masks is 100% diffrent from other normal surgical masks. So make sure you don’t sleep on this and try creating one out yourself!