Have you ever been in a situation where you badly needed to wash your hands and there was no bathroom available? Maybe you just shook fifty hands at an outdoor company picnic, any one of them contaminated with who knows what. Or maybe you petted a dog in the park. Or the worst yet-the port-a-potty at your son’s baseball field provided no way to clean your hands. The feeling that there are germs setting up camp all over your hands is enough to make you sick–literally!

Thankfully, there is a fast fix that is portable, affordable, and reliable. Purell hand sanitizer gives you great protection against germs without the use of soap and water. In fact, Purell wipes out 99,99% of common germs that result in illness in humans. You cannot get better antiseptic protection than that with hand washing!

Hand sanitizer takes only a few seconds to use. Simply apply a small amount to the palm of your hand and swish your hands and fingers together as you would under running water. Purell’s active ingredient is ethyl alcohol, which evaporates at once, leaving no slimy residue or unpleasant lingering smell.

The uses for hand sanitizer are countless once you start thinking about it. More and more people are carrying pocket-size containers around for the aforementioned emergency applications, but it has regular useful applications every day. For instance, it is a snap for teachers to give students a quick dollop in the lunch line. Day care workers love it for using between diaper changes-and it is non-drying, unlike frequent washing with soap and water!

When you start thinking about it, there are dozens of times in a day when you need efficient protection from germs. Who knows what germs are lurking on shopping cart handles, computer keyboards, hand rails, magazines in waiting rooms, and countless other surfaces? It is convenient to be able to be able to whip out the hand sanitizer and wipe away the germs that live all around us.