Polar Flex Cooling Gel - Cooling & Moisturizing Support - Menthol with Peppermint & Eucalyptus Oils - 2 oz (56.7 g)

You stop moving long before your skin does.

You finish the last set, you are still hot, the changing room is warm, and a shower only moves the problem around. By the time you are in the car your shirt is stuck to you and the whole thing still feels unfinished.

What is doing the work:

• Menthol is the cold — it is the ingredient that makes mint feel cold in your mouth, and it does exactly the same thing on skin
• Six aromatic oils behind it — pine leaf, spearmint, lemongrass, eucalyptus, peppermint and camphor oils, every one of them named on the label
• A water base — water is the first ingredient, so the gel goes on thin and sinks in rather than sitting on top of the skin
• Aloe and glycerin — the moisturising side of the formula, so skin is left feeling cooled and hydrated rather than only cold

Skip it and you spend the twenty minutes after a session exactly as hot as you were during it, and the evening starts on the back foot.

KINETIC Polar Flex Cooling Gel is a two-ounce cooling gel: menthol, six botanical oils, aloe leaf juice and glycerin in a water base.

What that gets you:

• Cold on the skin within seconds of it going on
• Skin left feeling cooled, clean and hydrated
• A gel that sinks in and leaves nothing on your hands

Smooth a small amount over the skin until it absorbs. For external use only. Keep it away from your eyes, and if your skin runs sensitive, try a small patch first.

This one you feel immediately, which makes it unusual on the shelf it sits on. Here is what the rest of the experience is actually like.

❄️ The first few seconds

The cold is not gradual. It comes up under your hand while you are still spreading the gel, and it keeps building for a few seconds after you have stopped. That first hit is the whole reason people keep one in the bag.

🌬️ Why it reads stronger on some days

Hot skin, a thin layer and moving air all make the cold feel sharper. The same amount on a cool day in a still room feels milder. Nothing has changed in the gel, only the conditions it landed in.

🌿 The smell, and where it comes from

Mint-forward, with eucalyptus behind it. The scent is the six botanical oils in the formula, and it is noticeable when you first put it on. If strong scents bother the people sitting next to you, that is worth knowing before you buy.

🔥 If your skin runs sensitive

Denatured alcohol is the second ingredient by weight and there are six essential oils in the list. Both are common triggers for reactive skin. Try a small patch on your forearm first, keep it off broken skin, and stop using it if your skin objects.

🔁 What it turns into

It stops being a product and becomes the last thing you do before you leave. Bag open, gel on, out the door. Two ounces means it is already with you rather than at home in a bathroom cabinet, which is most of whether a thing gets used at all.

Polar Flex is a cosmetic cooling gel. Everything it does happens on the surface of your skin: it cools, it moisturises, and it leaves skin feeling refreshed. That is the whole job, and it is worth being exact about, because the shelf this sits on is crowded with products making very different kinds of claim.

The label states 2 oz of gel and a full ingredient list in weight order. What it does not state is a percentage for any single ingredient, menthol included. There is no strength figure printed on this product, so none is quoted here and nothing on this page is compared against anything measured in percentages.

The ingredient list also does work that a badge cannot. This gel contains six aromatic botanical oils, so it is a scented product and it is described that way here. Denatured alcohol is the second ingredient by weight, which is worth knowing before it goes near sensitive or broken skin. Both facts are on the label, and both are on this page.

Polar Flex was made for the twenty minutes at the end of a session, when you have stopped and your skin has not.

It's especially for you if:

• You train four or more times a week and you are still running hot long after you have stopped
• You have used something from a jar that sat on your skin all evening and left your hands greasy
• You want the last thirty seconds of a cold shower without having to stand in one
• You keep a bag packed and want something in it that takes up almost no room
• You read an ingredient list before you buy and expect every line of it to be named

Menthol, with pine leaf, spearmint, lemongrass, eucalyptus, peppermint and camphor oils. Aloe leaf juice, glycerin and olive fruit oil for the moisturising side. Two ounces, and every ingredient named on the label in weight order.

It is not for you if your skin reacts to essential oils or to alcohol, or if you were looking for something to put on broken skin. For external use only.

For everyone else, this is the cold you have been looking for at the end of a session.

Your order today is backed by our 90-day guarantee. If KINETIC isn't right for you, return it within 90 days of delivery for a full refund. Simple as that.