from now on, I’m just gonna use MomSpit
Recently, I posted about an alternative to acohol-based hand sanitizers, citing growing concern that a small amount of this stuff, when ingested by curious toddlers, can cause intoxication if not outright alcohol poisoning. I was thrilled to find MomSpit, a hand cleanser free of alcohol, and while it’s not entirely ‘green’ and I’m sure my strictest mom-friends would have something to say about the ingredients, everyone will agree that this stuff is worlds better than that other stuff…
Now, some folks have expressed a WTF moment, because of the name of the product. I think the name is hilarious. I remember hating it when my own mother did that spit thing to me, or dunked her napkin into the ice water at a restaurant, so I’m doubly thrilled to be able to stop doing stuff like that to my own kid. The literature says it works like soap and water, wiping dirt and yuck away. I gave it a try after our trip to the local coffee shop for a raspberry danish and something nice to drink. It works! All that sticky danish just disappeared, and nothing but softer hands and the pleasant scent of lemon and white tea was left behind. The 2 oz. bottle is perfect for throwing into your purse, and they make a larger, sink-side version for use around the house or school.
If your area has a nifty boutique store, you might want to suggest MomSpit to them. In the interest of full disclosure, I have nothing vested in this product besides being thrilled to have found it, and wanting to help another mom-based business thrive.
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This is a great idea!
What IS in this stuff?
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Jennifer, the ingredients are listed on the MomSpit website thusly: Aqua, Polysorbate 20, Dimethicone Copolyol, Propolene Glycol Chlorhexidine Digluconate, Fraqrance in Fig & Green Tea, Lemon & White Tea, Unscented is naturally naked, Benzalkonium Chloride, pH balanced. Contains no human saliva, ’cause that would just be gross.
Christina,
Not that I expect you to know the answer to my question, but what IS all that stuff? How is this better than a cleanser? It is still full of unprounceable names, and we all know we are to fear ingredients put in our food and topical oinitments if we can’t pronounce them. Please take this comment in the light hearted manner in which it was intended.
Jennifer, I run with a tough crowd. Folks who won’t use shampoo that has polysorbate somethingorother in it, because even though it’s a plant derivative. it’s not ’safe for the environment’.
Just for giggles, I looked up some of this stuff, and it all has the mild to tolerant warning labels on it from the uber-green groups. This basically means, I’d use it, but some of my pickiest friends wouldn’t. But they are also the ones who drink raw milk, buy their produce from farmers’ co-ops, and are generally way more impressive than I when it comes to sustainable agriculture and green consumerism.
Christina and Jennifer,
Thanks for doing all the difficult work for me. I’m not ever going to drink raw milk, but I’ll use this stuff.
I drink raw milk
. But I probably wouldn’t buy it because my purse is too full already, with lots of clean tissues and with my luck it would leak all over at some point, shorting out my cell phone or something. So I’ll stick with my own built-in supply of mom-spit (my son hates it, too). But it’s the universal solvent and darn handy.
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