03 Aug 08/03/2021
Guidance on Our Best Glove Liners
If you work in demanding conditions and require added protection for your hands, wearing glove liners under your regular work gloves will help. Glove liners work with your outer gloves to protect against your job's unique demands and specific environmental conditions. These often unsung heroes of hand protection offer an extra layer of defense against injury. Glove liners are most commonly inserted into a glove to help keep your hands warm, but there are numerous other benefits, as you'll soon learn.
Frequently, glove liners are worn as standalone hand protection. However, when two different glove styles marry up, your hands are treated to the best qualities of both gloves. One example of this is our heavyweight cotton gloves, often worn for handling cold storage items. However, when working during cold winter months, combining this cotton glove inside a leather work glove helps keep hard-working hands warm and protected.
Since MCR Safety has been manufacturing work gloves since the 1970s, our glove liner selection has grown to include many materials, features, and colors. In this article, we'll discuss what glove liners are, how they work with your regular work gloves, and the benefits of different glove liner styles.
What Are Glove Liners?
Glove liners are dedicated hand gloves that you wear inside work gloves to enhance performance. They are typically thinner than most outer gloves and are worn to add a specific feature otherwise lacking in the primary hand protection. For example, wearing disposable gloves over cotton liners helps to make the gloves waterproof; putting a cut-resistant shell inside a leather glove adds cut protection.
Often designed for flexibility, many liner styles can be mixed, matched, and layered with any style of outer gloves to suit your needs. To accommodate the added thickness of a liner, you may need to go up one glove size on your work gloves, depending on the fit required.
What Do Glove Liners Do?
A good pair of glove liners is designed to be durable and long-lasting. Some have extra padding to cushion your hands from bruising; others provide warmth. Most liner styles add some advantage for the user. Here are some of the primary reasons to wear glove liners:
- Protect against cold conditions – glove liners can help keep hands warm in cold conditions and can quickly be taken out if temperatures begin to rise, meaning you're not stuck with a useless glove.
- Absorb perspiration – no one likes sweaty hands, and perspiration in your glove can affect your grip; glove liners help keep your primary glove from absorbing moisture.
- Provide additional cut-resistance – workers who face cut hazards on the job need extra protection from sharp objects, punctures, and cuts.
- Thermal protection – some glove liners can add an extra layer of heat-resistant material, increasing the overall contact heat-resistance level for the user.
- Increased comfort – wearing a cotton glove underneath the rough surface of a nitrile or rubber glove can help the user avoid chafing or itching.
- Extra padding – adding an extra layer of material beneath your work gloves can help cushion your hands from bruising.
- Provide liquid protection – glove liners can provide a waterproof barrier, excellent for workers in kitchens and barbeque pits in the food and beverage industries.
- Increased grip – throw one of our dotted styles over a disposable glove, and you've increased your gloves' grip capacity.
Cotton Glove Liners
Cotton glove liners are, in many ways, like an undershirt you throw on under a primary shirt. Wearing them under your work gloves provides a certain level of comfort, and there are limited materials that are as soft or comfortable to wear as cotton. As we highlight in our Cotton Glove article, cotton liners serve as vital protection for many workers because of cotton's inherent qualities, including:
- High durability
- Breathability
- Heat-resistance
- Softness and exceptional comfort
- Versatility
- Color retention
- Lightweight
- Low-cost
- Environmentally-friendly
9500M is a white cotton liner made with different wrist colors to indicate sizing.
You can explore all our cotton glove options by visiting our dedicated online cotton work glove catalog.
Warm Winter Options
9622
Thermal winter glove liners provide added warmth, dryness, and insulation against the cold. Our thermal winter gloves are made with FDA-accepted materials and can be used in refrigerated environments, food processing applications, and harsh winter conditions. The liners shown in this section feature Polar Therm fibers to wick moisture away and provide the fastest evaporation rate available.
9620
9620 and 9622 Feature a 10-Gauge insulated shell.
All winter work gloves can be viewed by visiting our insulated work glove catalog.
Thin and Ultra Thin
Our multi-purpose string knit gloves come in various blends and weights, including thin 13-gauge uncoated gloves, suitable for general hand protection in light-duty applications and great as glove liners. Here are some of our other thin liner options.
9627M 100% White Polyester
9613M Natural 100% Cotton
N9696 18-Gauge Athletic-Grade Nylon
MCR Safety's Ninja® ultrathin gloves can also be used as glove liners, as these gloves are 30% lighter than traditional polyurethane styles. You can slap a disposable glove over this style and still maintain a feather-light second-skin feeling.
Waterproof BBQ Gloves
You can waterproof any outer glove by incorporating a disposable glove as an inner bladder for protection against hot or cold liquids and oil. If, for example, you work in the food and beverage industry as a cook, and especially in BBQ, we recommend placing a pair of latex or disposable nitrile gloves over your cotton gloves as an additional liner. This will provide a waterproof layer of protection and added heat resistance.
You can view all our disposable gloves by visiting our online disposable glove catalog.
Fingerless
9509M 7-Gauge Heavyweight Natural Cotton-Polyester Blend
Some workers seek hand protection that doesn't sacrifice tactile dexterity. In that case, fingerless gloves keep the thumb, index, and middle fingertips open, offering a natural sense of touch. Fingerless gloves also provide:
- Greater range of motion
- Manual dexterity for handling tools, tiny wires, grabbing nails from a tool belt, etc.
- Ability to write, pick up objects, use a touchscreen phone
Fingerless gloves make great liners, too, as you'll have more finger dexterity underneath the primary glove that is covering the liner. Our multi-purpose string knit gloves (shown above) come in a fingerless option. We also stock a cut-resistant style!
7-Gauge Fingerless Glove Made with 100% DuPont™ Kevlar®
Kevlar
String knit gloves made with DuPont™ Kevlar® are used in work applications to provide cut and abrasion resistance. Kevlar® is a heat-resistant, cut-resistant, high-performance yarn that protects the hands when working with sharp objects.
DuPont™ Kevlar® withstands temperatures up to 900°F and is the ideal choice for applications requiring cut- and heat-resistance protection. Unlike nylon, leather, and even high-performance polyethylene, Kevlar® fiber is inherently flame-resistant. It will not burn, support combustion, or melt, making it a smart choice for those who encounter both cut and heat hazards on the job. Here are some lightweight Kevlar® liner options MCR Safety offers that you might want to check out:
9397 13-Gauge Uncoated Liner Made with DuPont™ Kevlar® Shell
9394 13-Gauge Uncoated Liner Made with Ultra-Light DuPont™ Kevlar® Shell
Leather
Leather gloves provide excellent protection from heat and abrasion. One of our most popular lined leather work gloves has a lightweight jersey fleece lining that provides natural wicking, keeping moisture off the skin.
However, not all leather gloves come equipped with a liner. You can give an unlined leather glove added protection with any of the glove liners mentioned above, ensuring increased protection and added functionality your current leather gloves don't have.
MU36211 features a windproof glove liner already equipped inside for convenience.
Here is the link to all MCR Safety's lined leather glove options for those interested in viewing our selection.
Lined to Protect
Do glove liners help with overall glove performance? Absolutely! Users have multiple options to modify their current glove with the wide variety of liners we offer. This makes standalone glove shells multi-functional. We hope the information above has proven that fact. If you have any requests for a liner type you don't see offered, please let us know.
We welcome any comments, feedback, or suggestions for how we can best protect people at work.
For over 45 years, MCR Safety has proven to be a world leader in gloves, glasses, and garments. Whether it's on the shop floor, an oil rig, a construction site, or shooting outdoors, we are there to provide solutions to workplace (and recreational) hazards. It's all part of our commitment to protect people.
No matter your industry, we have the personal protective equipment you need.
Learn more about MCR Safety by checking out our most recent video. For more information, browse our website, request a catalog, find a distributor, or give us a call at 800-955-6887.
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