I am writing this from Fiji which is a bit spoilt but lovely.  It’s raining today so here I am playing catch up with my posts and making the most of some quiet time.

I thought I would share with you my, I don’t want to catch any bugs on the way over here experience.  Having been very busy and tired before I flew over and I was concerned about not getting sick the minute I arrived.   Even more so for my husband, who has been very busy also.
  
So I had found these lozenges you can take to stop you catching bugs on the plane and also to build up your immune system.

This magic little bottle of tablets is called Blis Travel Guard and is designed to support your throats natural immune defense.  The idea is that you take four lozenges the day before you travel; four on the day of travel and four during travel.  Suck all lozenges within one hour of each other and repeat on the return journey.

Well, I now need to be truthful and say that I didn’t manage to complete the task and it’s actually quite hard to do. I’ll tell you why.  Normally you are really busy just before you go away and have a huge to do list. But really that wasn’t completely it.  They are just disgusting to suck. I tried to follow it with a drink and it seemed to make it worse.  The long and the short of it is that they really don’t taste very nice.  You are supposed to suck them, which for someone like my husband who doesn’t like the taste of much even on a good day, it was impossible.  He was nearly bringing the whole lot back up.  And to be fair to him, whilst I’m a lot hardier with these sorts of things, I could hardly do it either.

I can’t say I know what chalk would taste like but I imagine it would be similar.  So it remains to be seen if it stops me from getting sick even though I only managed to compete half the task.

Product: Blis Travel Guard
Available from: Pharmacies and Health Food Shops.
Rating: 1 (provisional)

  Now I’m not one to usually get excited about a hand cleaner, but this is really neat. You know when you find something really nifty and you want to share it with everyone, well this product is one of those. Believe it or not, it’s a hand cleaner.

It comes in a handy 44ml plastic squirt bottle and here’s the exciting part, you simply squirt it onto your hands and rub in.

You don’t need water and once it’s rubbed in there is no sticky feeling. Your hands smell fresh and clean. That’s what makes this so clever and useful. You can take it anywhere, and did I say you don’t need water. I believe I have. That’s how impressed I am with this product. Plunket nurses are now using it before handling babies as their hand sanitizer, it’s that good!

So keep it in the glove box of your car, your desk at work, your handbag, your first aid kit, your baby bag, your picnic basket and anywhere else that might be of use to you.

Best part is a little goes a long way and it’s cheap.

Rating: 4

Price: $4.95

Available at Pharmacies

  Ok, so yes, I was initially attracted to the purple packaging of this product since I love the color purple and thought it was a good idea and looked cool. So it has turned out to be and absolute bonus that this product does actually deliver.

It is great for any aches, strained muscles, bruises, bumps and sporting injuries which may occur. I get quite bad shin splints when I am working out and this leaves me with aching legs at the end of a day. If I rub this into them, within minutes the discomfort has gone. It is better for me than swallowing loads of Panadol so I can sleep at night.

I have also used this on my six year old when she fell and strained her arm. She said it was hot when it first went on but she wasn’t anywhere near as sore the next day when she woke up. We rubbed it into her arm for three days and the lump in the muscle went away and she said it was much better.

For a Natural product, complete with Arnica and Calendula you can’t go wrong. It is my preference over Deep Heat any day.

hot tip Always wash your hands with soap after you have rubbed it in. It is quite strong and you wont want this anywhere near your eyes.

Rating: 1 

Price: $9.95

Available: At most Pharmacies

Hands up who’s guilty of buying products only to put them into the cupboard and forget you actually bought them. Well the good news is that contrary to what you read, they don’t go off quite as fast as you would think.

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