This is the Cadillac of Hand Sanitizers
In the course of an average day on set, I touch anywhere from 25–300 people while getting them dressed for a scene. Besides the main actors on a show, we regularly dress a crowd of hundreds of background artists for restaurant and party scenes. It’s impossible to wash my hands between every single person I come in contact with, so I’ve long relied on hand sanitizer to keep things clean and fresh while at work. But not all hand sanitizers are created equal — and I’m not interested in using the bog-standard, hand-drying sanitizing gels provided by stores and office building bathrooms everywhere. I’m a hand sanitizer snob, loyal now and forever to Jao Brand Refresher, the absolute Cadillac of hand sanitizers.
I first found out about Jao Refresher when a makeup artist on one of the earliest shows I costume designed gave me a bottle. She used it for dozens of things while on set — sanitizing her hands and makeup brushes, zapping zits, as a facial toner to ‘perk up’ tired skin, and even as a stopgap deodorant when needed. Jao Refresher utilizes ethyl alcohol instead of isopropyl alcohol, which is just as effective at sanitizing (the CDC recommends you only use hand sanitizers that have least 60% alcohol content, Jao’s has 65%), yet half as drying on your hands. These days, I use it religiously anytime I head into the grocery or take my dogs on a walk. I also spritz a bit into my fabric face mask before putting it on, and the clean, fresh scent is a welcome relief from smelling my own breath the whole time I’m out.
Jao currently has their small 2 oz. spray version in constant stock and are shipping quickly, as both the product itself and the containers it comes in are made right here in the USA. Jao Refresher is liquid gold, and once you try it, you’ll never want to make do with that cheap stuff from the drugstore ever again.
