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When I'm doing construction, I often wear a form-fitting N95 mask (for dust protection) and safety glasses.

The top of the mask, and the nose-bridge of the safety glasses, compete for the same location on the bridge of my nose.

If I layer them so that the mask touches my skin, and the eye glasses rest on the mask, I have no problem with fogging.

If I layer them the other way: the eye glasses' bridge directly on my skin, and the top of the mask resting on the eye glasses' bridge, I get fog.

Maybe you're experiencing this?

I usually avoid this simply by putting my eye glasses on after my mask is in place.



It's almost completely dependent on the masks construction. I never had problems with my n95 from 3m, but the kn95 I have is impossible to wear with glasses no matter how I fit it.

The surgical mask a friend got for me in March looks near identical to the pack of masks I got recently besides the color but the one she got me fogs up my glasses while the pack I have now never does.


FWIW, the mask I was referring to in the GP is the GVS SPR457 Elipse P100 [0].

(As a side note, I haven't tried many masks, but I find this one extremely comfortable and effective.)

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013SIIBFQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...




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