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BabyGanics Moisturizing Foaming Hand Sanitizer
I always, always carry a travel-sized bottle of hand sanitizer in my carry-on bag, as well as my everyday purse. My kids know they are to wash their hands before any meal, but when were sharing snacks on a plane, or cruising through fast-food drive-thru with no time to run into the restroom, they also know I’ll have them use some hand sanitizer to “wash up” and destroy bacteria on their hands.
I typically pick up little bottles of hand-sanitizer at my local grocery store’s travel toiletries section — that is, unless I’m sent some fancy stuff to review. BabyGanics Moisturizing Foaming Hand Sanitizer falls somewhere between the two — it’s sold at outlets like Babies R Us and won’t break the bank, but it’s a bit more “upscale” than the grocery store brand, alcohol-based hand sanitizers.
This hand sanitizer, which comes in a 1.69-oz container for those clear, quart-sized toiletry bags you’ll tuck into your carry-on, is alcohol-free. It even says that its ingredients will moisturize, not dry out your skin. While I’ve used the foaming hand sanitizer a few times, I can’t attest to it’s moisturizing promises (the foam certainly doesn’t feel like hand lotion). However, I do appreciate that its lack of alcohol means that it shouldn’t be drying to my skin (or my kids’). The active ingredient that eliminates “99.9% of germs” is non-toxic benzalkonium chloride.
The pump on this travel-sized container does produce foam — which makes it feel like you’re actually washing your hands more than gel-like hand sanitizer does. And unlike watery, gel-based hand sanitizers (such as the aforementioned grocery store brands), the foam won’t glop off your kids’ hands onto the floor. The BabyGanics foam has more substance, if you will.
The bubbles dissolve immediately, once you rub your hands together, leaving a bit of wet film behind. You need to air dry your hands a little to get it to evaporate. I have the fragrance-free version, but you can also purchase the tabletop 250ml pump version ($6.99) or or 50 ml travel version ($3.99) in a tangerine scent at BabyGanics.com.
BabyGanics Moisturizing Foaming Hand Sanitizer products are also found at Bed Bath & Beyond, Babies R Us and Buy Buy Baby nationwide.
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Posted by Kara in Travel Light on December 20th, 2011
Frais Hand Sanitizer
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.
Posted by Kara in Kids and Family, Travel Light on May 22nd, 2009
