Sunscreen VS Window Tint

Hey, my name is Ralph and I'm at Flexfilm, and I've got a video that's going to blow your mind. I went to the drugstore today and I've got some sunscreen. Okay? I've rubbed the sunscreen on this clear piece of glass. Call me crazy, but would you believe that this sunscreen is actually going to outperform this a name brand, dyed limo film, that's probably been out in the industry for 40 years and it's probably on your car right now. Well, if you want to see how this shakes out, stay tuned.

Here's how this little experiment went down. I first started out with three clear glass slides and they looked like this. One glass slide got the 5% limousine dyed films and the other one got, of course, the sunscreen smeared all over it. Now, I want to point out real quick, I went to the drugstore, I bought some sunscreen. I wanted the one with the highest SPF, and this one has 110, highest I could find. And so, I use this one to see what would happen when I rubbed it on the glass.

One thing I want to point out though about UV, because we want to talk about UV and IR, and that's how we're going to figure out which one performs the best, but the UV's pretty cool. Okay? I didn't know this because the C ray, there's an A, B and C, the C ray is never going to make it through the Earth's atmosphere, so we don't have to worry about that with sunscreen or window film. The B ray is going to make it through, and that's a very dangerous Ray that we want to protect ourselves from, but I didn't know this either, it will never make it through clear glass. If we're behind clear glass in a car, the B ray, won't make it through, and we don't need window film or sunscreen to stop it.

So by putting sunscreen or window film on a piece of glass, we're going to simply figure out how much of the A ray is going to stop, and we're going to see which one does the best job at it. Okay? And by the way, we are using a nice little thousand dollar solar spectrum meter that's probably one of the best ones you can buy.

So here's the results. I was able to put the clear glass in the meter, and I was able to block out 43% of the UV. So then I took the window film and I put it in there, and I was able to block out 99% of the UV rays. This is what I expected. Most window films will do that. Then I put the sunscreen on. And I thought it was pretty cool because I was able to block out everything, 100%. There was a zero. That means it let zero UV through, blocked out 100%. the sunscreen outperformed the window film.

So basically we used the meter and we repeated these tests to see how much the infrared radiation performance was on these three glass slides. Now, I'm going to start with the first one obviously, the clear window. We put it on there, and just clear glass alone, we were able to get 20% broad spectrum, infrared radiation rejection. Okay? Then we put the dyed film on and we were able to get 23% infrared radiation IR rejection. And then, last but not least, we put the clear piece of glass with sunscreen on it, and we got 95% IR rejection.

I do want to point something out. We did notice that when we put it on a little thick and kept it kind of wet, we could get that level out of it. As it dried and thinned out, it would go down a little bit. But it still always stayed up there significantly high.

Okay, guys, this test is absolutely ridiculous. Okay? This is crazy that you would even think about putting sunscreen on your glass. But what is absolutely even more ridiculous is that the sunscreen added more value to the glass than dyed film. And what's even more ridiculous than that is that this is what most people are buying, dyed film, and putting it on your car. You're riding around with hardly any value added to the existing glass that was already working up to some degree with dyed film thinking you're doing something.

But one of the most ridiculous things that I can share with you today is that there's actually alternatives to these dyed products in our industry. There's carbon and there's ceramic films that had really taken a foothold in our industry that have really blown past dyed films and what they're able to do. If you're at all interested in technologies like this, you can always visit our website and get information, or most importantly, feel free to call us. I would love to discuss the details of alternatives to dyed film products like this, to add more value to your glass.