About us
We are Liquid Ice.
The original, since 1998.
Tested live on BBC One, written up in TIME, used at the 2011 Tour de France. Still one liquid that cools by evaporation on fabric.
Ice is a good idea with bad logistics.
It needs a freezer. It melts, it drips, and most of the time it sits in a bag while the heat is somewhere else: on the scaffold or in the pit lane.
In 1998 Gerard Hassler fixed the logistics. He made the cold liquid.
Liquid Ice is ready at room temperature. Spray it onto a tight shirt or soak a band or a bandage, put it on, and as it evaporates it cools your skin. Measured on the soaked bandage: 5.8 °C cooler skin. Still cooling after two hours.¹
It started in St. Moritz. Today it is based in Klosterneuburg.
When it gets hot, wear Liquid Ice.
The original · since 1998
Cold that doesn’t come from a freezer.
Liquid Ice is a clear liquid, not a cream and not a gel. Sprayed generously onto a shirt or band, or soaked into a bandage, it takes heat away from the skin as it evaporates.
Ships from Klosterneuburg near Vienna to 20+ countries.
It started with a knee.
Winter 1997, St. Moritz. Gerard Hassler was testing skis when he swerved to avoid another skier and tore his ACL. He wanted to keep skiing, so he wore a tight neoprene support bandage. Every time he took it off, his knee swelled up like a balloon. Every physio told him the same thing: cooling and compression. But you could only have one at a time. Cooling meant taking the bandage off; the bandage meant no cold. Swapping back and forth all day made no sense.
Gerard already knew cooling on the body: he ran his own institute for thermogenesis, working on fat reduction. So he put both into one: a bandage that sits firm and cools itself as the liquid evaporates. In 1998 that liquid became Liquid Ice.
From one skier’s knee to the Olympic Games
Liquid Ice since 1998. Every line from our archive.
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1998
The idea
Cooling and compression in one bandage. The cold comes from a liquid that evaporates.
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2002
Live on BBC One, an award at ISPO
On 1 May BBC One shows Liquid Ice live on Tomorrow’s World, filmed with a thermal camera. At ISPO in Munich it wins the brandnew Award, Coolmax Body Care category.
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2002
World Cup in Japan and TIME
The German national football team’s backroom staff take Liquid Ice to the World Cup in Japan. On 5 August TIME writes about it, plus Popular Science, Men’s Journal, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Kicker.
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2004
Athens
Olympic teams from ten nations cool with it at the Games in Athens; we equipped the German teams at our own cost. Afterwards the medical chiefs of the German and Croatian teams write to thank us.
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2005
Thermal images
Production moves to Switzerland. We have the soaked bandage filmed with an infrared camera on knee, ankle, elbow, wrist and forearm.
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2008
Measured
Dermatest in Münster measures it on the soaked bandage: 5.8 °C cooler skin. Still cooling after two hours.¹
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2016
Ice Hockey World Championship
Austria’s men’s national ice hockey team uses Liquid Ice before, during and after its World Championship games, and writes to thank us afterwards.
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2016
Formula 1
Brazilian Grand Prix, São Paulo: at Sauber Motorsport the driver asks for Liquid Ice just before the race start. Josef Leberer writes to us about it on 15 November 2016.
Liquid Ice is the liquid. Spray bottle, band and bandage take it to where the heat is.
For people who don’t stop for heat.
In training, on the roof, on the sidelines. For teams without a freezer and for everyone who works outdoors in summer. No ice, no fridge, no power.
Measured on the soaked bandage: 5.8 °C cooler skin. Still cooling after two hours.
In short
Since
1998
The idea: cold you can wear.
Worldwide
20+
Shipped to 20+ countries.
Dermatest
5.8 °C
Measured on the soaked bandage: 5.8 °C cooler skin.
Liquid Ice e.U.
Klosterneuburg
Head office and shipping in Klosterneuburg near Vienna.
Would you like to see Liquid Ice in your practice?
We send you samples to look at and call you for 15 minutes once they have arrived. To test it in your practice, there is then a paid pilot package.
Cold you can wear.
One bottle, sprayed generously onto a tight shirt, a jersey or a wristband. Ships from Klosterneuburg in 1–2 working days.
¹ Measurement: Soaked bandage · Dermatest GmbH, Münster · 20 subjects · infrared · 120 min · 2008 · compared with each person’s own starting temperature. To the protocol
First-order gift: One Active Ice Bandage, pre-soaked (worth €14.90). Once per customer, with your first order of a bottle, can or set, added to your cart automatically.
All prices incl. VAT, plus shipping.