For as much as we use inside, I've often thought how handy it would be to have outside, too. Since my ex-husband worked at a hospital, we still have a huge pilfered box of ointment wrapped in individual foil packets (I know, good division of property, huh?). I have those stashed in my purse and car, but the packets rub thin and cause a big gooey mess that makes carrying them hardly seem worth it after a while.
That's why I was excited (in a geeked out, first aid kind of way) to try the new Neo To Go made by Neosporin. I got in a box full of portable supplies that included antibacterial hand spray and more tiny bandages. But what I was anxious to try was the Neo To Go.
The idea is phenomenal. You can clip it on your diaper bag, gym bag, golf club bag, or even throw it into your kid's backpack full of soccer gear. You press the yellow button down to spray a quick hit of Neosporin.
Because it is sprayed, this version is light and airy, isn't goopy and won't leave that annoying oily stain on clothes. That also means it doesn't have that instantly soothing feeling that the ointment does when you put it on a stinging scrape. Perhaps the happy medium is that you get to get it on a wound quickly so you can fully clean and goop up the boo-boo when you get home.
My one complaint is that the Neo To Go packaging is flimsy and fell apart the first time I used it. I got it back together, figured out how to use it and keep it snapped together, but it definitely needs some work.
Would you use a portable first aid ointment like Neo to Go?
[For the record: Nope, Neosporin didn't pay me to say this. And their parent company weren't even the people who sent it to me in the mail. I just got it, tried it, wrote it up here.]
