Keeping my paws clean at all times

I'll be the first to admit it, I'm a little OCD when it comes to keeping my hands clean. Having stomach problems, I'm extremely conscious of putting my hands near my mouth when I've been fiddling around with stuff, who knows what germies we could pick up just from holding a pen, typing at a keyboard, touching a door handle etc! However, water and soap isn't always to hand (excuse the pun).

This is where travel anti-bacterial gels come in, but not just your bog standard boring ones. I'm an advocate of anything colourful, cute, shiny, novelty, and most of all, anything that smells amazing.

My firm favourite anti-bacterial hand gels are Bath & Body Works PocketBacs. They come in really teeny tiny sizes, perfect for your bag/desk/car/wherever you need it, and the best part - they smell A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. My favourites include Warm Vanilla Sugar, Twilight Woods, Midnight Pomegranate... the list goes on! Unfortunately, for us UKers, Bath & Body Works isn't in the UK (big sad face), so you have to coax an American pal to ship you over a bag full, or have a best friend like me who jets off to America every so often and brings you back some! Best part is, they're also only $1.50 (you can guarantee if B&BW ever came back to the UK, they would be double this price...).

However, recently I've noticed that the UK are cottoning onto this, and (nice) scented hand gels popping up here and there. First of all, The Body Shop have recently released some in some gorgeous scents - Strawberry, Satsuma, Sweet Lemon, Pink Grapefuit, Tea Tree (ew) - just to name a few. I have a couple of these sitting on my desk at work which when I use I get the question - 'what have you just sprayed?'. These aren't too badly priced (at £2.50) and again, come in handy little sizes.

Another place which has recently introduced scented versions, is Marks & Spencers - of all places! I picked up two - Soft Coral & Sweet Bloom (pictured) for the grand price of £1 each, for 50ml too! These smell just as divine, which is a bonus. I also did find some in New Look a few months ago, but they smelt absolutely disgusting and I can't use them - urghh!

Have you seen any brands releasing scented hand gels? If so, let me know so I can get my mitts on them! Again, excuse the pun there...

Caroline.x

P.S.

On a completely unrelated note, how good is Rubicon?