Balloon Treatment 16 oz – Extends Float Time for Helium-Filled Latex Balloons – Treats Up to 100 (11-Inch) Balloons – Non-Toxic, Biodegradable Balloon Sealant

In preparation for my daughter's upcoming 5th birthday, I decided that I would test out this Ultra-Hifloat at our Super Bowl party. I followed the directions as included in the box, with two minor exceptions. First, the amount I put into the latex balloon was a little less than the guide recommends. In this case I uses 3/4 depression to fill an 11" balloon versus the recommended 1 full depression. And two, I did make sure to get a little into the neck of the balloon too (the instructions advise you not too). This last point did make it a little difficult to tie the balloon (slippery), but we managed just fine. You do have to inflate the balloons quite well to ensure adequate rise. I did have 1 that I under filled and the kids played with it all day, batting it around the house. That was until the Hifloat dried on the inside and the balloon started to rise! Now I would normally awake to a balloon graveyard the following morning (maybe even that night). The site of shriveled, pathetic balloons and wasted helium used to irritate me. Today I come down, and they are all still flying high, taught with helium, and show zero signs of weakening yet. This Ultra-Hifloat states it will make helium filled balloons float up to 25 times longer...I don't know if I will get 25 times longer, but so far we are on the right track. Amazing product. Will definitely use for my daughter's birthday coming up in a few months. EDIT: 2/12/12 Update - Simply Amazing. Exactly 1 week later, of 11 standard latex balloons inflated, 10 of them are still flying like the day were inflated. Midweek, the one that isn't, literally deflated before my eyes. I can't figure that one out. But the rest are still up and the kids are enjoying dragging them around the house. I will continue to update this review to give others an idea on how well this product continues to work. EDIT: 2/19/12 Update - Seriously! This stuff is now outlasting the Mylar balloons. 10 latex balloons still full and show no signs of losing helium. The 2 Mylars on the other hand are now about 1/2 full. Ultra Hi-Float is crazy good stuff! EDIT: 2/26/12 Update - OK. Whomever said this stuff doesn't work, doesn't know how to properly use it. While the 2 Mylar balloons dropped into the trash this week, I am staring at 10 full-filled latex helium balloons that are now starting to get on our nerves. They simply refuse to die. They've been up so long even the kids are bored with them. My wife asked if she could pop them so we could get rid of them. When has that ever happened with your latex balloons? I said no. I'll keep you posted. 3 weeks in and going strong. EDIT: 3/4/12 Update - Week 4 complete. The Hi-Float has started to crack and break off in some of the balloons leading to some rattling in them. As a result of the cracking, you can see that the lift to the balloons is starting to weaken and in fact 2 of the latex balloons are only flying at half height right now. I assume more will follow quickly this week. Still 8 balloons out of 11 flying at full height 4 weeks is pretty darn amazing. A little math - I've never had a untreated 9-11" latex balloon stay afloat for more than 12 hours at any one time, but it is of the general consensus that a traditional 11" latex balloon is estimated to remain afloat with helium for 18 to 24 hours. Ultra Hi-Float's guarantee of 25 times that time would equate to a staggering 18.75 - 24 days of rise. And here we are at 28 days, with roughly three quarters of my balloons still floating high! All I can say is it does work, and it does work well. EDIT: 3/11/12 Update - I can't believe I am still updating this review. I counted the balloons today that are still at full height and there are 7. We lost the 2 that were not quite as full last week plus 1 more. The balloons have been up so long at this point, I barely notice them anymore. Week five complete with an amazing 35 days of rise. EDIT: 3/18/12 Update - Well we are officially down to 3 balloons. But hey that's 3 latex balloons still floating 6 weeks after first inflation! I will say that the quality of the latex balloon must play a large part too, because we did our daughter's birthday this weekend and within the week we've already had 3 to 4 fall and I did the exact same protocol as I did in the original post. At this point though I'm so sick of balloons. I'm ready to pop them all just so I can stop editing this post. EDIT: 3/25/12 Update - Down to 2 balloons at 7 weeks. We've actually removed the remaining to to the basement since they seem so out of place. I mean they are from a Super Bowl Party. I think one of them is starting to falter so hopefully in one to 2 weeks, this review will be over. I never expected it to go this long. Late Additional Updates: EDIT: 4/1/12 Update - Down to 1 at 8 weeks. EDIT: Between 4/8 (9 weeks) and 4/15 (10 weeks) it seems the the last holdout fell. Today is 4/21 and I don't recall seeing floating earlier this week. I found it 3/4 to full will helium, resting on the basement floor. It was banished to the basement because we just couldn't stand to look at them anymore. Too funny. Who would have ever thought? So in closing 75% of the balloon made it 28 days. And a few held on for 8-10 weeks. Overall a truly remarkable product. But buyers beware. The effect generated by the Hi-Float is STRONGLY correlated to the quality of the balloons that you use. It can only help poorly made balloons so much. But it can drive you batty with good balloons as they never seem to want to die!

Worked perfectly. The reviews don’t lie - using this with latex balloons - they lasted over a week. We ended up having to pop them ourselves they lasted so long. Very impressive. Didn’t add much more time to blow up the balloons. I used this for 50 - 11” balloons for a graduation party the night before and they didn’t lose any air for well over a week. You do need to use the right amount - too much with little air and it won’t rise. Directions called for 1/2 pump for 11”, but I got away with 1/4 pump and just spread it out well. It’s not just a pump and fill. You need to massage the balloon to spread it out before inflating for best results. Follow the directions. Will buy again!

Seriously, do not even THINK about inflating latex balloons with helium without a good squirt of this stuff inside first. I was wary of investing in it for our party (after all of our other expenses) because there were mixed reviews. But, I now know that any bad reviews are likely because a) someone didn't understand how to use the product, or b) the balloons being used were already defective themselves. We blew these balloons up 7 days ago and they are still flying high and have only lost maybe 5% of their original helium. Amazing! What you need to keep in mind is that this stuff will not work if you skimp and don't use enough, or if you fail to fully massage it into the entire balloon (avoiding the neck, of course). Read the instructions that come with it and you'll do just fine. Also, don't expect it to work as well for outdoor balloons - you'll get longer life, for sure, but not the "days and weeks" that you'd get from keeping the balloons in a climate controlled environment. The instructions inform you about this as well. So I really can't understand why there are mixed or bad reviews for Hi-Float, because when used in a manner consistent with the manufacturer's recommendations, it is an amazing product! My latex balloons are fuller and look much nicer than the mylars, 1 week later, if you can believe that. *NOTE: Prior to using it for the party, we did a little experiment and filled an 11" latex balloon without Hi-Float, same type of balloon with 1/2 squirt of Hi-Float, and same type of balloon with full squirt of Hi-Float. The control balloon was already sagging after 8-10 hours and was on the floor after 24 hours. The 1/2 squirt balloon was better, but lost more helium than the full squirt balloon. So now I follow the directions and use a full squirt for 11" latex balloons.

This was a complete waste of money. I read the reviews before I purchased and the one lady who stated her balloons were up for days/weeks must have either got a bottle that actually worked, or was the inventor of this product that absolutely does NOT work and IS a COMPLETE waste of money!! I used this with the helium tanks that you buy at the party stores and was so excited to use this product and have my daughters balloons actually last. Since my daughter turned 2, she is in the stage where she loves balloons. Her party started at 3 and literally by 6 all of the balloons were on the ground (and we blew up the balloons around 2:00). Such a waste and then the warning about how not to have it around kids...well it doesn't make it easy when all the balloons are on the GROUND! Save your money and use it towards another helium tank so you can have more balloons, and they will last a lot longer. Wish there was a way to get my money back!

When organizing a kid's birthday party, you pretty much need balloons. It costs about $24 to get a helium tank and a bunch of balloons. For $14, however, you can make those balloons last much longer. The trick here, is to buy a jug of Hi-Float. Hi-Float is a plasticizer that you squirt into a balloon to create a layer of plastic which is much less permeable to helium than the latex of a balloon. The idea is that you'll squirt the plasticizer into balloon, massage the balloon a bit to spread it, then fill the balloon with helium, tie it off, and then you'll end up with balloons that'll last about as long as the mylar balloons you can buy for $1 each. Each 16oz container of Hi-Float will provide enough coating to use 2 of the standard tanks you can acquire at Target. There are a few issues that you have to work through to use Hi-Float successfully: You have to stick the nozzle of the Hi-Float all the way into the balloon. Otherwise, the plasticizer might not coat the balloon evenly, and you'll get early deflation. This happened the first time I tried it. The plasticizer itself adds weight to the balloon. So while you might have gotten used to filling the balloon to a certain level before it'll float, you have to add more helium than before to do so. This caught me out the next couple of times. Because of this, the standard helium tank will fill fewer balloons than it would if you didn't have the plasticizer installed. However, those balloons will float for quite a bit longer. The plasticizer also has the effect of darkening the insider of the balloon. If the balloons used to be closer to being translucent, they will now become quite a bit more opaque. Test a few balloons first if color matters to you. (It didn't matter to me or the kids who liked balloons) All in all, it's relatively cheap compared to the helium tanks, and if your kids keep asking for balloons every time the previous one deflates, this will make your intervals between helium tanks much longer. Recommended.

I have to say, I had a very hard time perfecting the amount of solution to pump into the balloons, and I did read the instructions first and follow the suggested amount per size balloon. For me, it did take slightly less than recommended. Any more, and the balloon would just sink or float aimlessly mid-air like a bubble, which my kids thought was hilarious (albeit not exactly my target height). Once I mastered the amount, the balloons SOARED for the ceiling. I could barely get them tied in time before they took off. Now that was the only benefit I saw. The balloons did stay at maximum height for the length of time they were originally expected to stay inflated, per the helium tank I purchased. They didn't start to "lag", so to speak, as I've noticed others do in the end. I, personally, did not benefit from any significant increase in time the balloons stayed in the air, which was what I had really been looking for. I, at best, got balloons that stayed high for about 2-3 hours longer. I probably would not recommend the product, as I didn't myself notice anything "Wow" from it and spent so much time trying to figure out the perfect amount of gel to pump in, that I didn't even have enough time left to blow up all the balloons I wanted to. It may be great for someone else. Personally, I don't have that much time to spend perfecting my "pump" when blowing up 200 balloons. I guess it depends on your situation and perfect pumping ability. I'm just a regular, imperfect mom.

I was initially ready to get on here and shout that this product is a load of bunk! My first few attempts using this product didn't go well. My 1st attempt I used way too much and the balloon wouldn't float at all. 2nd attempt I used way too little with the result that the balloon fell flat after about a day. My 3rd attempt seemed to get everything in the "right place, right time." My method (which is working consistently for me) is to use one "pump" of fluid per balloon BUT...and this makes the difference. After putting the fluid in the balloon you have to massage the fluid around the balloon THOROUGHLY. As in rolling it between your hands for at least a full minute so that as much of the inner surface as possible gets covered with this stuff. Yes, you're gonna have to work a little to get this to work but the result (at least for me) is balloons that float for at least 3 days as opposed to 1. Is it worth it? I guess it depends on how long you really want/need your balloons to float after filling them.

AWESOME AND AMAZING

Asegúrate de no poner gel de más porque harás pesado el globo y no flotará

Buen producto cumple su función

Wir haben das Hi-Float Gel für die Luftballon-Deko unserer Hochzeit bestellt. Bisher kann ich nur von den Testergebnissen reden, diese sind aber mehr als zufriedenstellend! Wir haben 2 Ballons ohne Gel und 3 Ballons mit Gel mit Helium gefüllt und geschaut, wie lange sie fliegen bleiben. Ergebnis: Die Ballons ohne Gel sind schon nach 8 Stunden runter gekommen, die Ballons mit dem Gel haben sage und schreibe 5 Tage gehalten. Natürlich waren sie an Tag 3 nicht mehr so schön, wie frisch aufgepustet, das Gel hat aber definitiv das gehalten, was es versprochen hat! Für unsere Hochzeit nächsten Monat können wir also sicher sein, dass unsere Deko nicht bereits beim Abendessen auf dem Tisch liegt und blöd aussieht. Wohl verdiente 5 Sterne 👍🏻

Impressionnant ! Je ne pensais pas que ce serait si puissant ! Nous avons fait quelques tests avant le jour J avec plusieurs doses, et le jour J bois avons mis la dos que nous pensions parfaite pour voir les ballons tomber le lendemain à 8h du matin. À 11h nous étions sur les tables avec les balais et fourchette accrochées pour les faire exploser car ils n'étaient pas descendus (mauvais calcul) 😀 Ça fonctionne très bien !

Absolutely works! This made my balloons last for a good 4 days at the minimum!