Since having children, I always carry a travel-size bottle of hand-sanitizer — whether I’m taking a plane ride cross-country or driving to the grocery store. Moms know that children tend to touch everything and then stick their hands in their mouths constantly.

My brand of choice has always been whatever is cheapest — and usually that means the grocery store brand, like the little sample-sized Kroger bottle that sells for 99 cents. (Purell is a close second, but only if it’s on sale.) I’m not that picky when it comes to killing germs; so the hand-sanitizer gel that smells like alcohol and dries my hands doesn’t really faze me.

That is, until I tried a a luxurious product on the market: moisturizing, aromatherapeutic Frais. Infused with 8 essential oils, from grapefruit to tangerine to ginger, Frais smells delicious. Its active ingredient is sugarcane alcohol, instead of generic rubbing alcohol, so it’s more moisturizing than other standard brands.

Plus, the company is environmentally friendly, with manufacturing taking place in a Sydney-based wind- and solar-powered factory. Apparently sugarcane alcohol is more energy efficient to produce than grain or corn alcohol, so the company preserves some of earth’s resources that way, too. A portion of proceeds from Frais sales goes to Just a Drop Foundation, which brings clean water to communities around the world.

I found the Frais hand sanitizer a bit stickier than my usual no-name brand. But once it evaporated on my hands, that residue feeling went away. As I said, I think the perfume-y scent is heavenly. While my husband called the scent too “girly” and “fruity,” my children — ages 7 and 9 — liked it. So if that encourages the kiddos to want to use hand sanitizer more often, then this mom is a fan.

The kicker: the product is not cheap. It retails for $7 for the 1.7-ounce container. Mini, smaller-than-lipstick-size .2-oz containers are $3.50. I’m not sure I’d go out of my way to order the product online, but I wouldn’t hesitate to buy it as a gift for a female traveler who appreciates the finer things in life. (Nor would I turn it away if someone bought some for me!)

Buy Frais online or at a handful of salons in cities like New York, Miami and Los Angeles. See the Frais website for details.