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Combating Cold and Flu Season with Custom Hand Sanitizer

The fall season has arrived, and with it comes the beginning of Cold and Flu Season. If you run a business, you know the importance of keeping employees and families healthy. A sick employee means production will be down, creating a greater workload on your other employees. And the chances of it spreading throughout the office to other employees is almost guaranteed!

Another concern is the holiday season. Staff during the holiday season is always a concern as many people will want time off to spend with family and for vacation, leaving you with a minimized staff. Add to that the spread of colds and viruses leaves you even more short-handed, you will struggle to keep everything flowing as it normally does. With these thoughts in mind, you will want to do everything you can to ensure your employees stay healthy.

A great way to help keep your employees, as well as customers and clients, as healthy as possible is by providing hand sanitizer for everyone to use in your offices. Strategically placed pump bottled hand sanitizers are an effective way to protect people from the germs and bacteria that will run rampant throughout your entire office.

With one at the reception desk, guests and employees alike can cleanse their hands when they walk into your office. It’s also a good idea to have them in the busier parts of the office where employees tend to gather or spend a lot of time. Placing a bottle of hand sanitizer near the copier, printers, breakroom, and restrooms will severely cut down on illnesses in, and out, of the office.

To take precautions even further, consider providing each employee a smaller bottle or two to keep at their desk or in a briefcase or bag so they can use it throughout the day, even when they are out of the office. Take them to clients, leave them with their receptionist, or give them a bottle when they visit your office. Everyone who enters their office will see your company logo and know that you care about the welfare of your clients and customers. With our hand sanitizer under $1, you can easily afford to give everyone their own bottle.

Tradeshows and company-sponsored events are another wonderful way to showcase your brand on hand sanitizer while helping to stop the spread of cold and flu bacteria. With all the hand-shaking and product touching, you need to add a layer of protection to help keep everyone from getting ill. Custom hand sanitizer makes a wonderful promotional gift and is one that all attendees will appreciate. Keeping a pump bottle at your table so your employees and visitors to your table can freshen up is pretty much a necessity.

The more you can do to prevent colds and viruses from spreading, the healthier your employees, business, and family will be. Be sure to stock up so you have plenty on hand. It’s going to be a long winter!

Why Hand Sanitizer is Still Important in 2022

Before the pandemic changed our lives, how many of us really ever thought about hand sanitizer? Not many unless you worked in a medical environment. Over the last two years, it has become one of the must-have items in our daily lives, at times being the reason for some crazy panic buying! In the US alone the hand sanitizer market was worth over 4.3 billion USD by the end of 2020 and is forecasted to grow a further 3.6% over the next 5 years.

Now you won’t say this too loudly, but there are signs on the horizon that the world might be returning to normal. Or at least a version of whatever normal is or was to us all. The numbers of worldwide infections have decreased over the last few weeks, a pattern mirrored in the US and much of Europe. The number of individuals vaccinated is ever-increasing and many countries are starting to lift all signs of restrictions. So, does this all mean we no longer need this once essential product?

Back to normal?

Many people work from home today. For some this is how they have always worked, for others, it became necessary during the pandemic. Working from home has its positives, but it does have its downside. It can be quite a lonely way of working. Interacting with the same four walls every single day and only speaking to people via a computer screen or phone.

But as restrictions are being lifted there are murmurings that some countries are now looking to live with the virus. Many are starting to venture into the office more and more, once again.

A day out

Working from home, spending time out in the world is often a treat. During the pandemic, shopping was only a necessity, and coffee and dinner with friends was a luxury. For many, shopping was done online for delivery to eliminate any unnecessary contact with others who may or may not be ill. Not everyone adheres to the recommendations of the CDC, and although hand sanitizer was available at every store, not all took advantage of it. Even being around someone with a cough would often send people into a panic!

The weekend

Saturday hits and you have plans with friends or family. Coffee out, a trip to the shops, and then an afternoon of chores while the weekend’s sport is on in the background. Then if all goes well, you plan to meet some friends for dinner in the evening.

But when you wake up, you just don’t feel yourself. You can’t quite put your finger on it, but something is not quite right. Trying not to dwell on it, you start your weekend with all the excitement that it brings knowing the working week is behind you. Lunchtime arrives, and wait. That can’t be, can it? Did you just cough?

The test

The coughing gets worse over the next couple of hours, so you decided to take a Covid test. Because that is what we have become programmed to do. You find the at-home kit you have and follow the instructions to the letter. You need to be sure after all! You get ready to wait the fifteen minutes out staring at this test, but after just three minutes your heart starts to sink. Surely not. It can’t be, can it? Those two red lines appear. Oh no you have Coronavirus!

Later that evening the cough becomes more prominent, your joints begin to ache, your nose starts to run, and you become congested. The hot and cold feelings come and go every few minutes and you feel awful.

But you thought the pandemic was coming to an end? You are double vaccinated and for so long during this pandemic, you were so careful when you were out. But habits have slipped. you have become too relaxed! Maybe Coronavirus will never go away and we are all going to have to live with it. Along with Flu, the common cold, and many other little bugs that try so hard to bring us down!

The downfall

It could have all been prevented. Simple really. Using hand sanitizer. You don’t even know why you stopped using it. You have been so careful throughout the pandemic. Maybe it’s “Covid fatigue” or you just started to believe (or wanted to believe) it was all going away. Let’s be fair, it’s been two years and we are all sick of it! (Yes, that was a joke!)

Your journey out into the world brings so many opportunities to catch the infection. The hundred passengers on the train or bus, and the ones who sat in your seat before you did. The coffee barista who handled your coffee. The hundreds of people you interacted with throughout the day. Endless opportunities.

We can never control what everyone else is doing, but we can control what we do. And while we all learn to live with Coronavirus and all the other bugs out there, we can take one simple precaution that would have saved you from a rough week in bed. Regularly sanitizing our hands. A good thirty seconds would have saved your whole week. Seems silly now, when you look back.

Learn from your lesson

Don’t let those exciting times on the horizon be stopped by not continuing to do the little things like regularly washing your hands with soap or water, or using hand sanitizer when you are out and about. That quick 30-second habit might just allow you to enjoy that holiday in the sun, the concert that has been postponed three times, or that meal out you have been looking forward to for months with your friends.