 Hey guys, Alex here from alexfegers.com and today I'm doing another mini review on a mouth tape product This product is called myotate. I've been using it for the last week now If you haven't seen my other videos I've been mouth taping for a few years and I wanted to compare all the most popular products and even some of the most Some of the uncommon products on the market. So this is the second product I am testing and I will be testing as many as I can get my hands on and Applying my five-part scoring system to see who see what product is the best and of course what product is the best for you So I've been using this for the last week now and I have lots of thoughts Very very interesting and unique product as you can tell is a mouth tape Yeah, it has a hole in the middle, which I'm going to explain very soon so um hang around as I share my thoughts give you a bit of an overview on this product and Now talk about how this is very unique in the mouth taping space All right, so what do you need to know about this product? Well myotape is an Australian company and these strips or Tape I don't really know what you call them strips. Let's call them strips These strips were designed by Patrick McAllen. Now Patrick is a batakia breathing instructor and is well known for his Book the oxygen advantage really good book if you're new to mouth breathing Mouth taping nose breathing and all that sort of stuff. I highly recommend you check that out as I mentioned these Strips are different to your typical like somnifex strips, which cover the the mouth and tie the lips together This one actually goes around the lips and leaves a hole in the middle So that's designed for a couple reasons The main advantage of that though is you can you actually use it during the day when you're talking and working and and And of course if you use it at nighttime then it means you can still breathe through the mouth if you have to So it is a little bit different and I'll get into my thoughts around that soon So how it works is the tape itself actually has a bit of stretch in it And what that does is if you were to open your mouth with it on The stretch sort of encourages the jaw and the mouth to close again That's helping you to shut your mouth and breathe through the nose it is made from cotton a cotton fabric and It's very sticky and a latex free Hypoallergenic glue, which is great because I personally like if I put a Band-aid on and it's not the hyperallergenic version within a day or two or any form of tape within a day or two So I stuck in the really bad rash So I've been using this for a week now overnight and haven't had any which is which is good any rash it which is good Let's pull up my five round scoring system for these mouth tapes and we'll see how the myo tape Stands up so for the first round we look at stick ability And this is how well it sticks and how well it stays on and whether you can reuse it overnight now It is very sticky. I mean you can see it here. It's just Oh touch it. It's stuck to my fingers and as I show you there that that right there is a problem I have with it. It is so sticky That when it sticks upon itself on itself, it's actually very hard to get back. There we go I got it But because of that elastic sort of stretch it has if it does stick to itself And then you try pull it apart when it does come apart It will spring back and stick somewhere else in it to be honest It is very very frustrating the good thing is it will stay on your mouth Or not. There's no issues with that. Um, let me show you exactly how I do put it on by the way so you can see it Not perfect, but It's a bit ridiculous looking and I'll get to that soon Let's just leave it on for a moment to show that I can talk with it So yes, it is very very sticky now. I didn't have any problems with it coming off overnight I Did reuse this For a couple of nights By the third night it was starting to get pretty sloppy. So I'd really only say this there's two nights worth here the problem with this though is getting it off the Packaging Can be a bit tricky and if you do If you do sort of pull it the wrong way or it catches on something that elastic spring The elastic stretch in it. I don't know There were a few times I got really frustrated because it would just pop back and stick somewhere else And then you're trying to peel that off and another bit would stick it did my head in But saying that it is very sticky. It is very sticky There is no issues with it coming off during the night once it is on so that's good But due to those other problems I'm going to give it a 4 out of 5 for this first round on the safety front. This is no brainer It's a simple 5 out of 5. You can't get any better than this Put it on. There's no risk of choking or anything like that There's no risk of it coming off because of how sticky it is you can get up in the night and drink If you have to say something if you need to talk if you need to yell out for whatever reason you can do that No issues at all because again, it goes around the lips around the mouth and doesn't block the mouth as such so 5 out of 5 for Safety Plus also it has the hypoallergenic glue. Okay, so next up we have practicality. How well does it work? How well does it do what it's meant to do now? Now like I said my tape actually say you can use this during the day and it is a great if you notice You're sitting at your desk or in a book or whatever and you're breathing through the mouth You can use something like this to help you start that retraining process to get your breathing through the nose and this would be a good product to use during the day because You can still talk you can still drink like if you're working from home You can take a phone call you can grab a cup of coffee whatever that's fine And in fact you can use it if you're an athlete say for instance You want to train nose breathing while you're running or or rowing or whatever So those are all good products because if you those are all good features because if you do need to take a big gas With a beer or have a drink of water you can do that so that is good But I'm looking at this more from the overnight point of view like how well does this help you nose breathe during the night? Now I have to say I wasn't very impressed I can see how it works because when you do put it on you do feel that tension through the stretch in the fabric Trying to pull your mouth shut like if you open your drawer widely with it on you can feel that natural I'm not natural you can feel that pull that tension trying to pull you back So I do get that and I put it on after this is gonna be cool Like if I do open my mouth surely it will just snap back shut But what I found is I was waking up during the night with quite a dry mouth little bit of a headache all the signs that I have been mouth breathing overnight and this is kind of weird because I have been mouth taping for years now many years and I always thought that after a period of time like I would retrain the body and I wouldn't need the tape But that's I'm just small that hasn't worked out to be true and even with this I thought it may be enough just to you know that little bit of encouragement to push me back to close my mouth And breathe through the nose doesn't seem to be the case at all. So that is a big big Disappointment it may be okay though for a newbie into the space someone who's new into nose breathing and new to wearing Mouth tapes for instance, so it could be a good option for them If they don't want to seal their lip shut from day one Maybe you use this for a month or so just to get used to it and maybe that will be all you need Maybe I'm a really bad Mouth breather and thus I need to pretty much duct tape my lip shut at night I don't know. I mean you could give it a shot, but for me I'd to be honest. I didn't even use it for a whole week. I wanted to use these products one week at each and before I did a review I think after the night five. I actually I went to the next product I'm going to be reviewing so be sure to subscribe to see that one But I knew it wasn't working for me overnight. So Given all of that I have to give it a one out of five because hey, I'm scoring this on the ability to Restrict your mouth breathing so you're breathing through the nose So I have to give it one out of five sure there are those benefits that the other tapes don't have Especially for daytime use and I should also mention they do it children's version. So, um, you know, if your child needs some help or Is doing a lot of mouth breathing. All right, next up we look at price. So a packet of my tape It comes with 90 strips. So inside you see you get these sheets each sheet has six strips on it And one packet cost 35 Australian dollars, which is About $26 us for a packet of 90 which works out to be about 29 cents us per strip So 29 cents a night, which to be honest is a really good price And for that reason I'm giving it a four out of five might say before out of five for the price category You can buy multiple packets at a time I think if you buy two packets at a time the price comes down even more, which is great They are being an Australian based company. You get free shipping if you're in Australia I don't know what the shipping was to America. So apologies. You'd have to check that Yourself you can you can have a look at my tape in why oh tape calm and Yeah regarding multi-night use. I think you could probably get two nights out of this Maybe three if you weren't taking it off and on during the night, but the main thing is How well you can get it on and off without it all clinging and sticking back together if you can do that Yeah, you'd get three nights if you can't maybe one or two I tried three nights, but I was like, this is ridiculous. It was just getting too frustrating All right, so in the last round we look at everything else in particular. I look at appearance I look at ease of application. I look at whether you can talk through it I look at the mess and the packaging involved that and with the product and also, um, how suitable it is for travel. So Let's start this start appearance Like I said before it is Yeah, let me put it on again I don't really need it so much about it Let me just say my wife has seen me do some funny things over the years and Still laughs at my mouth tape at night, but when she's when she saw me with this on she just shook her head And she said oh my god, it does look ridiculous. I the bright orange coloring Doesn't help if you look at some of the images on the website, you know, even those are quite ridiculous Again, though, we're doing this for health and hey like if your partner really loves you They should be supportive and all that sort of jazz and that's fine I mean, hey if this was the best product ever, I would happily wear it Sure, I wouldn't wear it out in public, but uh saying that I'm doing a YouTube video. So But you know what I mean? It is a little bit silly looking if you get up in the middle of the night And you forget it's on and you're staying with friends or something you're gonna get some laughs That's for sure. So I can't give it the point for appearance. I'm sorry And it is a bit unusual that it's like bright orange Maybe if it was more of a tan skin color, it might be a little bit better or even like a Translucent sort of I don't know You know, I can't give it the point for appearance. All right, next up. We look at ease of application I've touched on this a little bit before So I want to read from my notes what I do when I'm using these products I whenever I have issues or thoughts because it's typically late at night or during the night or First thing in the morning. I dropped them down on my phone So when it comes to reviewing them, I you know, I've got all those thoughts that I otherwise would have forgotten So I want to read this quote from you I know it's read application is a refined art giving the mouth and lips shut properly applying it to the right spot Can be really tricky. The key is a good stick under the bottom lip and try not to get the sticky size touching each other and Yeah, that sums it up perfectly because it is it is so sticky, right and that spring Fabric see there like if you just if it slips from your finger for whatever reason then it comes in on itself touches itself and To pull it off Because it's so sticky. It's um, it's rather tricky. So now I've got it on my thumbs, right? Now what I want to do is pull it apart, you know, not only am I trying to pull it apart To surround my mouth. I'm gonna pull it over and above. So you're pulling it all sort of directions The best way I found is you you put your thumb the two thumbs like right along the side and you can pull it over and then you've got it shut your lips mouth and and What I found is you actually want to get the bottom bit really low or quite high. Sorry on the bottom lip, okay? So and I didn't even know if that's perfect, but it is it's pretty good Actually, I can feel if I open my mouth that pings back and maybe a bit too high on the top here But it's yeah, it's a bit fiddly. Okay So you got all the stickiness you got the stretch and then you got to try find that right application Whereas something like the somnifex just straight on the like close the mouth straight on the lip. So Yeah, it's not great and For ease of application that also means like taking it off it can it you know, if you've got facial hair It's not ideal either obviously with moustache or a beard or something like that. It's going directly on all that here So that didn't hurt just then but after a few hours of it being stuck like I pulled it off in the morning I'm like, oh, it's quite painful. So hey, I can't give you the point there my tape. Sorry for ease of application Let's look at miss. So on the mess front, it's not too bad. You get a sheet like this with six Strips on it and that's it you peel one off and hey leave it on your bedside table or throw it in the bed and There's no extra bits of packaging or paper or plastic, which is good. So on the mess front It's not too bad. One thing I should mention though is It can be tricky giving these off and I should have touched on this before this happened to be multiple times. So um We're not often pull them off Sometimes I pull too low and the whole packaging comes up and if you're doing that, you know night We just want to go to sleep. But it's another little frustrating point. So anyway for mess I'm gonna give it the point because hey, it's not too bad and there's not too much packaging wastage So that is good. Next up we have can you talk with it? And this is a definite. Yes I mean, it's super easy to talk and drink and that is a big plus Again for some people. So you get the point there and finally travel friendly. Yes and no I mean, hey, it looks ridiculous But I mean if you're gonna wait for a couple nights You just grab one of these fold them up and where you go. So I'll give it the point there So overall for that for the other round, I'm gonna give it three out of five So so overall if we tell you up the points, we come to a total of 17 out of 25 It's not the best score. There are better scores out there But it definitely won't be the worst the main thing with the mild tape is whether you want to Get a product that doesn't block your lips up Like if you're very nervous about that and or you want to use something during the day For instance, maybe you're an athlete and you're doing endurance running and you want to really train nose breathing I for instance will leave some of these in the gym and if I am doing some some endurance based work I'll probably put them on and give them a go because you can quickly take a drink of water or a big gasp of beer Whereas if you tape it up while running for instance, it can yeah You get a little bit uncomfortable and you freak out a little bit and so does the brain is all a bit scary So that is a good plus. Likewise, you can use it with children and Whether it's gonna do the job for you long term. It didn't for me. I didn't even do it in the short term So it may not be a permanent fix you may use this and then go to something else And because of those issues I had like getting it off the paper the stickiness The facial here like the pulling of the facial here how it looks And even the fact that I was still waking up with a dry dry dry mouth I'm not going to continue using this product. Like I said, I'll use it in the gym I may play around with it during the day sometimes when I know when I know no one else is around but Yeah, overall. Hey, it's it's another product out there Probably not gonna get another order from me, especially because I have a whole pack of them sitting here But maybe you'll you'll do better if you've used this product before leave your comments below What did you how did you find it? Maybe it maybe you've had a different experience to me I'd love to hear it if you enjoyed this video give me a thumbs up And if you want to see my other videos comparing other mouth-taping products Be sure to subscribe and also check out some of the links below because I have done a couple of these now And I will be doing more. All right guys, I'm gonna leave it there