Hey BH,

I guess it depends on the length of your mustache, I have had one for 23 years and still get chapped lips. I do tend to keep my mustache trimmed short because I do not like it when ice freezes-up on it.

Later, Mike

Lates recommandations here in Finland is to not use cream to cover your face for frost protection. If it´s waterbased it will freeze. And if not, then it will keep the moisture between skin and the layer of cream. And thereby creating frostbites when that misture freeze.

Best protection is your own grease from unwashed face.

Has anyone tried thin latex surgical gloves fo thing like meal prep, etc.?

No, but it seems a highly unpleasant concept in cold temperatures.

Trapping moisture from the skin beneath a thin vapor barrier and absolutely no insulation does not appeal to me at all.

But - I am judgmental, don't take my word for something I've never tested.

I have tried them before, the lesson was short lived. If I didn't know better I would have sworn that the gloves mad my hands colder. and if it is cold enough the latex will start to snap and become britle.

[quote=TyberI have tried them before, the lesson was short lived. If I didn't know better I would have sworn that the gloves mad my hands colder. and if it is cold enough the latex will start to snap and become britle. [/quote]

They DID make your hands colder. Most thinner gloves do, the increase in surface area overrides the insulation (expecially with something like latex which has very poor thermal properties). Only the very thick gloves that make the hand hard to use actually provide an increase in warmth. Blocking the wind is a slightly different problem and gloves do help with that. They also keep the water in the skin from freezing to very cold metals.

Respectfully,

Jerry