Touch Sanitizing Germ Block

The Touch Story...

Have you ever heard stories of people who had an idea for a product or business pop into their head like a lightning bolt? The so-called lightbulb moment when that one singular, powerful idea simply floods the mind. Well that happened to me a few years ago while I was at an amusement park with my wife and two young children in Ohio. It was a crowed, 90 degree day at Kings Island and we were literally stuffed into the little kids area of the park. It was late afternoon, and my wife was spraying sunscreen on my sweaty kids to protect them from getting sunburned.

Throughout the day we had been bumping elbows with the crowds, in and out of bathrooms, concessions stands, riding rides, touching ride handles, door k***s, sticky food, sinks and toilet levers….each other…...you get the idea. Our hands simply felt gross. Im sure many of you have experienced something like this at airports, big city subways at rush hour, or large athletic events where people gather in mass.

Now, I don’t consider myself a germaphobe. As a matter of fact, I rarely used hand sanitizers because quite frankly, I really dislike the greasy, lotion feel of sanitizer gels on my hands. It’s the same reason I never used sunscreen growing up resulting in many days of sore skin on my shoulders, nose and back. Then they came out with aerosol sunscreen and life became much better for me on vacations. It was so easy to spray sunscreen on versus having to rub lotion on all over your body. Evidently everyone else thought so too, because soon after aerosol sunscreens came out, industry sales exploded.

So as I sat there, sweaty, sticky and gross, and watched my wife and children. Suddenly, I had the lightbulb moment. That lighting bolt of an idea came into my head in the form of a question:

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