Customer Reviews Outdoor Research Essential Face Mask Kit

I really wanted to love this mask. It works well in out and about situations HOWEVER you need to put double sided tape on the mask filter and inside the filter insert. Otherwise the filter flops and fold inside the mask, proving to be useless.

Great mask but cascade colour is quite different from website. Instead of a muted, purplish-blue, it's bright and turquoisey :(

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Looks good. I have a big head and i is big enough to cover my face :) The filter that comes with the mask does not stay in place, it moves and it falls out easy. Otherwise it is a good mask

Nice materials but the design is not great. The filter is constantly moving in the mask and it's very frustrating over time. Needs a better way to secure the filter in place.

Mask is comfortable but filter likes to come loose

The mask fits really nicely and it's comfortable around the ears. I particularly like the adjustable straps on the ears and the way it rides on my face. The filter is a great concept but in practice it's a pain as the filters don't tend to stay in place for long and require frequent adjustments every time you take the mask off and go to put it back on. It can easily be worn without the filter and likely still provides a good measure of protection when worn that way.

Like the size of the mask and the adjustable ear loops. I didn't have any problems with inserting the filter into the mask but the filter did not stay in place. Every time I took the mask off, the filter was out of place and had to be adjusted again when I need to put the mask on. I just got too frustrated having to do that during the course of a day and decided not to use the filter at all. When talking with the mask on, the filter would move out of it's pocket. Not a good decision in my opinion.

I mean it's pretty hard to mess up a mask. The outer nylon face fabric is fairly straight forward and presumably performs as an effective barrier against outgoing mail. The problem lies with the inner, replaceable paper barrier. I THINK this is the bit that's meant to serve and protect it's wearer? Anyhoo, after a bit of faffing (I think there's a right side up?), you wiggle this in here and stuff that in there, you get the paper bit seated into the nylony bit and voila a face mask! Now repeat after each and every use. Yeah, the paper bit doesn't like the nylon bit and shifts and falls out and folds and crinkles and everything else that makes it a big fat fail. Sorry OR. You rock, but your face mask.not so much!

Fit and style are good but the mask does not absorb moisture leaving a very wet interior after wearing. Quite unpleasant. The filter also sits right on your face which is a little irritating. I Wish the filter slipped in between the fabric layers. Hoping these masks will do better in the warmer weather.

The mask fits well & is comfortable but it is hard to get the filter to stay in place. The sleeve that holds the filter does not work well and could use some redesigning.

These were issued to cross-country ski instructors for use during work. We have to wear a mask 100% of the time for 8 hrs of work. We are skiing pretty hard during our lessons. These masks fit great and don't come down at all during hours of skiing. However after about 45 min of hard skiing (breathing hard), they were getting wet and breathing got hard. At that point, we had to pull the filter to keep going. Then after 1 1/2 hr of hard skiing, they were sopping wet and lost integrity so started sucking onto our faces. That said, we did wear them continuously for 3 hrs of hard skiing. So it wasn't so bad that we had to take them off, but they were pretty gross. I think I will modify mine with a wire ear to ear so that it cannot suck into my face when it is wet. I also plan to swap masks every 2 hours. I might also try using a surgical mask under it and swapping that out every hour. I could swap out the filter but it got wet and gross too after 45 min. The surgical masks (just standard ones you can pick up at the grocery store) work pretty well actually. But they look unprofessional and once they get wet, while they still feel ok, they really look disgusting. So totally inappropriate for work. The OR mask still looks good when it is wet, just feels bad. Note if you are using yours for work, you will need multiple. It will smell awful the next day if you don't wash it and it would be pretty revolting. So you'll need to wash daily.

For the price the filter should stay in place a lot better. They slip out of place so easily they are about worthless.

Really uncomfortable. Disappointed as I hold OR quite highly. On it's own (no filter) this is ok - the mouldable wire across the nose is very good as it can be shaped to fit quite well. String attachements are a little thin so over prolonged periods of time it can easily cut into your ears although there is some good adjustability.

Purchased for my spouse and she enjoyed the mask with the cinching but the mask was a little large for her. The filter also folded or slipped out of the edges while wearing. The look and material have a great texture and overall design with the curved upper section fits under glasses and reduces fogging.

Constantly adjusting filter, it's always sliding out. If you contort the mask in any way beyond how it sits on your face then the filter comes out. It's a nice mask, looks better than the cheap ones, but you're going to be fussing with the filter far too much if you put your masks in your pockets.

Asl noted above the filter does not stay seated properly, especially as if picks up moisture from your breath.

Only complaint. We ordered a black one, and this fatigue one. The fatigue one seems to have extra material in it, and my husband can't keep the liner from not crumbling up. The black one doesn't seem to have that issue. Otherwise, they work great!

Once you figure out how to load the filters this is great. The seal is pretty good overall, everyone's face is different, I do find that I can't open my mouth as wide as I normally would when speaking so my jaw gets exhausted from restricting. I think this is because the fabric is a bit more robust than other cloth masks, which is a good thing, it just restricts movement a bit of the mouth if you have to talk a lot, which I need to do for my job.

I like the fit. Very disappointed the packaging creates so much waste. I will avoid buying more of these until they improve their packaging to be at least recyclable.

Does not keep my glasses from fogging up as much as I would like. Comfortable though.

Fine mask as long as I don't talk. Mask starts slipping down. If removing and re-masking, the filter sometimes slips out of the holder. No similar issues with the Adrenaline model. This one gets pocketed as a back up. Nice and compact. Adrenaline is now my everyday use mask.

Does a reasonable job of covering up my nose but still fogs my sunglasses a bit. Did not fog up my goggles. The ear piece adjustments are very comfortable. I used the mask all day at our ski resort this week. The mask got very damp (warm weather + talking to students) but it dried out quickly when I left it in the sun on the dashboard of my car on lunch break.

I like the way this mask gives complete coverage. The adjustable eat loops are awesome, as is the nose bridge. I HATE that the filter is in contact with my face. I've seen other designs where you insert the filter under a center slot, which is far preferable

Good mask could be great with a few tweaks First off was a little disappointed that the yellow in this is more mustard than neon. My biggest grip is with the filter. It doesn't stay in place and requires reinstalling every time you put the mask on. Seems like a little Velcro to hold the end tabs in place would work or adding some flares to the ends of the filter and slots in the mask could make a very simple attachment. You can see this on a lot of other masks in the market