I’m a dude who travels every year to my in-laws in NY with my wife and kid. I also travel for work and I often have to be social. I’m slightly overweight and not beer or wine shy.
I hate having to go to the bathroom when traveling. The toilets are always dirty and I always worry about what people think. This is even worse when we need to eat out (I have slight IBS) or when we’re at home, because my wife has the same diet as me. So every day there is a terrible time which involves a lot of ick. Parties are even worse!
I remember back when I was in school hearing my dad first thing in the morning walking down the hallway and then the smell would be the thing that finally propels me out of bed. Now I’m that guy and I hate it.
All the ‘toilet hugiene’ products absolutely suck. Spray makes things worse. Those new bathroom wicks smell nice, until I bulldozer it with toxic fumes. The new little sprays in the toilet are for dainty people in movies and barely help at all for this burrito lover. The only thing that works is if it’s a truly windy day, you open every door and window in your house.
I have tried everything.
UV light in the toilet. Packets that foam. Even made my own spray (its fun but expensive).
One day I played with a bubble gun with my kid and his niece. We made those huge bubbles. I dropped the bubble wand in and…. IT IMMEDIATELY SUNK BENEATH THE BUBBLES. Like, the bubbles just closed up super fast.
That’s called the Marangoni effect, I’ve learned in the meanwhile. I have also learned how to make it work better through some basic chemistry trial and error with off the shelf products.
I started making my own bubble solution and used the bubble gun to spray it in my toilet.
WORKS EVERY TIME. The waste just falls through and is immediately covered up by the bubbles.
Problem SOLVED. Like GONE. Like I now carry a friggin' bubble gun with me. Now in that crappy airport toilet or in the McD’s bathroom or in our en-suite I spray that sucker. No smell like AT ALL. No Skid-marks. Especially in public toilets I use the bubbles to distance me from the previous guy’s skid-marks.
Now I want you to have this too, but in product form and eco-friendly version (the key is biosurfactants).
You can also do it yourself by literally adding a bit (only 3 drops or so) of glycerine to your bubbles gun (NOT the multiple ones) and spray it in your bowl until full, then do your thing. It’s friggin amazing.
OK, so the chemicals in that is bad for your toilet and sewerage. That's why I took this to a product development house who is now developing this in an environmentally friendly product. www.skeg.com is doing it.
But I need your feedback to know if I'm really onto something.... I think I am because of all the positive feedback and also because two of my best friend in London said they will help me on this venture. Becks and Berts (I am not going to use their real names right now) are really doing some amazing behind the scenes work.
If you have the same embarrassment or irritation issues that I have, either make your own bubbles or please sign up for mine. This stuff WORKS.
We do not have to suffer other people’s smells and toilet mess.
Thank you for reading!
PS don’t laugh I’m doing everything including making the video by myself.
Feel free to email me if you have any questions, comments or suggestions. Please no spam (obviously), but you can send me pictures of you pets. In fact, that would be quite nice.
Lots of love,
JCV
PS
BoShie is short for Bowl Shield.