It’s not uncommon for ice packs, ice bricks or gel ice packs to break open and leak blue liquid or gel everywhere. Sometimes it even gets on your skin. If your ice pack broke open or is leaking you may…
Making your own gel ice pack can be quick, easy and cheap and can be a great way to treat injuries or to keep your lunch cold. Often they can be made with items you already have laying around your…
Gel ice packs are used by millions of people to apply to injuries, reduce swelling or to keep our lunch cold throughout the day. But often these will live in your freezer for years, getting used sporadically or hardly at…
Blue ice packs, also know as gel ice packs, are able to get extremely cold without completely freezing solid. This makes the very useful for applying to injuries on your body where you need to mold the ice pack over…
It is possible to keep ice from melting for hours, days and even weeks at a time if you use the right methods and store the ice correctly. Without preparation ice will melt in a matter of minutes or hours…
Many people know that salt can be used to lower the temperature of ice, making your coolers colder, but how do you keep ice from melting by using salt? Hint: It’s NOT by adding salt directly onto your ice. If…
If you want to keep food, drinks, medicine or other items cold when flying it’s important to know the rules about what you can and can’t bring through airport security as well as what the best ice packs for air…
If you’re looking to keep items cold when you travel – whether that be food, drinks or medicine – it’s import to know whether or not the ice packs or other ways of keeping your food cold will make it…
Engel sell two different high-performance ice packs. But what’s the difference between the Engel 20 and the Engel 32 ice packs and which version is better? Engel 20 ice packs are designed to turn from solid ice to a liquid…
When packing your cooler with ice or ice packs is it better to put the ice on top of your cooler or on the bottom? The answer is “it depends”. It depends on what you are trying to keep cold…