SuitSlip is an investment in your diving comfort, pure and simple.

Pure because of it's blend of organic and solvent-free ingredients. Simple because of the way you use it- add fresh or salt water to the top of the spray bottle it comes in, shake and spray into your suit and slide on in.

A debate rages in the internet diving community about the worth of SuitSlip versus common hair conditioners from some discount store and I want to weigh in on it from the point of view of not only the maker of SuitSlip but moreso as a diver.

A little background- A soap or a conditioner it has solvents in it, that's why they work cleaning your mop. The rubber that the wetsuits are made of is extremely porous (open cell) and the seams that are most susceptible are essentially sealed by the glue. Glue and the rubber it fastens is attacked and prematurely aged by solvents in hair conditioners and soaps that are supposed to cleanse hair and skin. Result- your wetsuit's seams degrade and leak and fail. The rubber at your suit's stress points doesn't rebound, it develops cracks and the flexibility is gone. Cold yet?

Another thing is fragrance. Not only does a fragrance let the fish know you're still rocking that 80's musk and to head for the hills but the fragrance is also a oil and solvent. A fragrance will also mix with the RedBull you had on the way to the water and next thing you know, your partner is asking you to pull your suit off downwind. Fragrances stink.

Let's also not forget your skin. You want to have a solvent laden layer of suds against your skin all day? Ideally your suit doesn't flush completely the insulative layer of water between it and you so the dermal difficulties of wearing a neoprene suit are made worse over time by the same solvents. Add some of the morning's French roast to the mix and you've just achieved leper status.

So why do divers tolerate the downsides of using hair conditioners and soaps? Very simply, COST.
Go online or ask your buddy's and they'll go on and on about how cheap their discount conditioner is and why would anyone spend $14 for a 24 ounce spray bottle of SuitSlip when they get a quart of their stuff for $9-10?

Here's where SuitSlip makes sense and cents. You don't need as much SuitSlip to put your suit on.

You save money with SuitSlip over hair conditioners.

The 24oz SuitSlip spray bottle contains enough concentrate that most all divers using it realize that they use less. Half a season and there's a lot left in the sprayer. Add more water and shake. Divers that do it for a living and avid weekend spearos have written to say that they get a busy season of diving from that same sprayer. Those same divers were previously making trips to the discount stores for jugs of hair conditioner for less performance. There's no cost savings with conditioner even if you don't figure in the time and gas. Go through a gallon, and damage your suit and skin or spray on some of the 24 ounces of SuitSlip and save.

But wait, it gets cheaper! SuitSlip actually bonds onto the suit so when you take it off for a breather just lean over the rail and wet the suit and slip on in! You're not going to get that performance with shampoo so you end up using more and there goes your cost savings.

The bottom line is this- you save your suit, your skin and your money with SuitSlip.

SuitSlip is available from www.speargearshop.com and very select distributors like FreediveShop, Anderson's Blue Water Hunter and Mako Spearguns who even kicks in a bottle with a suit purchase!

No solvents or fragrance, mix with salt or fresh water, use less and save money and with it's sprayer. SuitSlip.