MomSpit is definitely better than the original!
June 1st, 2008
Admit it. You’ve done it. You’ve licked your thumb and used it to scrub that ice cream mustache off your toddler’s (or your husband’s) mouth. Mom’s spit is not only handy but gets just about everything off, including ketchup. (Wish I could say that about my laundry detergent!) But using your spit as a cleaning product might not always be the best way to get the job done, so may I suggest something that works just as well—if not better—than the original and smells a heck of a lot nicer? It’s MomSpit, a cleansing product “inspired by the original,” and it’s fabulous!
What is MomSpit? Well, it’s not a hand sanitizer and it’s not a replacement for good ol’ soap and water. It’s also not a gel and contains no alcohol. It is a no-rinse cleanser for hands and face with a fluffy mousse-like texture that absorbs quickly while it cleans and moisturizes. It also smells great! (My favorite is the Fig & Green tea.) MomSpit claims it “works like magic, smells like heaven, cleans like soap and water without the sink,” and I’m here to tell you it is truly magical and heaven-sent!
I was very skeptical at first. How could something actually dissolve dirt without soap and water? But I’ve had many occasions to test MomSpit’s cleansing power. It’s cleaned mud off my toddler’s hands, dirt off his face (he must have eaten those mud pies he was making), and a variety of leftover food from both places. Don’t ask me where the dirt or dried ketchup goes—I have yet to figure it out! But somehow that little dollop of mousse manages to work wonders every time. Perhaps no one knows better about the need for a convenient cleansing product when you lack soap and water than a mom and this product is mom invented. It is “made with love in every drop,” which definitely helps! And if you need a little more convincing, check out the dirt on MomSpit as dished out by happy customers.
Don’t let the fresh scent fool you. MomSpit is all powerful! Their products are also pH balanced, biodegradable and “contain no human saliva, ‘cause that would just be gross.” Somehow MomSpit works its wonders without actual mom spit. Now that is truly magical!—Emily
** Giveaway! MomSpit is giving away one trio of their MomSpit Mini 2-oz. size (Lemon& White Tea, Fig & Green Tea and Unscented). Please leave a comment telling us about a “mom spit” moment—it’s true confession time! Include a valid email address for our drawing. We’ll draw the winner from the comments and contact her via email. Deadline: June 9, 2008 (midnight). The winner will have 24 hours to claim her prize or a new winner will be chosen.
** Congratulations to Julie M., the winner of the MomSpit giveaway! Thank you to everyone who took the time to read the review and add a comment. Keep reading the Daily Dish for your chance to participate in more giveaways!
June 2nd, 2008 at 2:54 am
Oh, this was quite a moment for me! Our son was about 2 1/2 and we were just beginning to understand that this child was gifted in some way. One day getting out of the car to go into store with him, I looked at him and saw the proverbial smudge on his face. Spitting on my fingers, I gently swiped over his face to clear the smudge. In a rather adult like voice, he said, “WHAT are you doing???Don’t you ever do that to me again! You spit on your hand and then smeared it all over my face!”
Maybe you had to be there to hear the inflection in his voice but this is definitely my spit winner!
June 2nd, 2008 at 2:33 pm
I vowed I would never do this to my son – I always saw my mom & other moms cleaning off their childs’ faces and thought, “Gross!” But now that I have a kid, he’s always getting so dirty, and sometimes we’re without wipes and someone is coming and heaven forbid they see him with a dirty face, so out comes my finger, swiped with spit to clean off my son’s face. I’ve turned into my mother!
So I don’t have a specific experience, but I would love to use the product instead of the real thing.
June 2nd, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Oh geez so many times MY own mother would embarrass me-actually if she could still use momspit on me (at age 37) i’m pretty sure she would!
June 2nd, 2008 at 2:56 pm
My son had remnants of his supper on his face and I only noticed it minutes before his Christmas concert… real mom spit at least made him LOOK presentable.
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:25 pm
One time when we were not near the sink my daughter got a little scratch on her skin, which I would usually dab with a bit of water to ‘make it better’. I just used a bit of my own ‘momspit’ to ‘make it better’! Great giveaway, thanks!
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:30 pm
I actually use my spit to fix my daughters hair. It is gross but when it’s sticking up and I don’t have any water, what else am I supposed to do?
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:13 pm
My daughter is only 7 weeks old, and I’ve already used spit once to clean some “crunchies” off her face when she spit up while sleeping, and I had a visitor coming up the stairs to see her!
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:24 pm
just last week AFTER we arrived at Ella’s t-ball game i realized she still had a little of her dinner on her face
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:51 pm
I actually had to stop with the mom spit…I was wiping my daughters face with mom spit, and couldn’t quiet get all the remnants of whatever it was off. So I re-licked my hand. There must have been some left on my hand and it had to be dirt, because I chewing on sand for a long time after that.
June 2nd, 2008 at 5:04 pm
I have a 4 month old, all day is a mom-spit moment
June 2nd, 2008 at 6:47 pm
I don’t really have a specific moment, but I do this all the time to my kids. They hate it but I can’t help it. Drives me crazy when my kids have messy faces. This product would be a lifesaver to my kids, lol.
June 2nd, 2008 at 6:57 pm
I do this all the time much to the disgust of my soon to be 7 year old.
June 2nd, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Many, many times—including just last week at church when we didn’t leave all of the breakfast leftovers at home!
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Hmm, well this often happens here! Sometimes my daughters somehow make it out to the truck without getting their faces washed…and…well….I don’t really, ahem, spit though, I just lick my fingers
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June 3rd, 2008 at 6:28 am
Well honestly I am such a slacker mama that my son has a messy face most of the time! I often forget about it when we go out, and do resort to the mom spit.
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:07 am
I’ve used spit on my daughter several times. Who hasn’t? But does anyone else use it on their husband? Mine gets pretty ticked when I do that to him! This product sounds so great. Thanks!
June 3rd, 2008 at 11:42 am
I’ve used it to make my daughter look spiffy clean when she really isn’t. After crawling around on the grass, after eating cheerios, etc.
June 3rd, 2008 at 12:01 pm
I think most moms have done this at least a few times. I know i have. After we get some where and I realize we didn’t wipe his face off that good. I’d love to try this product. Thanks
June 3rd, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Oh gosh, I dunno how many times I’ve done it – but we’ll be rushing out the door and I realized that both my son and my daughter are still sporting a milk mustache! I usually use a wipe but the container is not always full…ahem.
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Tristan had a runny nose and was sneezing like crazy and everytime I turned around he was wiping his nose and smearing the snot all over his face and I’d get to him wipe him off then it would just dry up in a hurry.
This would be great for those moments.
June 3rd, 2008 at 3:36 pm
I have done it a few times and everytime my daughter remind me you are not suppose to spit on people (I did not spit on her, lol, just used a little on my finger)
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:27 pm
I’ll tell about a mom-spit moment with my mom when I wa little. The family was going somewhere in the car and she turned and looked at me and immediately got out her hanky, ‘wet’ it and started scrubbing on my cheeks. She scrubbed pretty hard and didn’t seem to get what she was after. Finally, she quit and said, “I guess those are just your freckles! I thought your face looked dirty.” Dirt or not, the freckles are still there.
June 4th, 2008 at 12:26 am
My kid is one of those kids that walks around looking like he never gets washed with dirt and chocolate and markers all over his face moments after I’ve cleaned him up (I think he has a hidden stash of those things somewhere) so we have a momspit moment several times a day
June 4th, 2008 at 10:54 am
I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to win this! I am always cleaning my 20 month olds hands…she is into everything…and I sadly have to use purell sometimes when we are away from our home…I would love to try this out! thanks
June 6th, 2008 at 9:36 am
My mom-spit moment was when I did it to a friends child!! I looked at her and noticed that she had marshallow on the tip end of her nose. (we were all camping and it was the left overs from smores!) Licked my thumb and, before my brain could stop me, got it right off. She was only 4 so she thought it was totally normal!
June 9th, 2008 at 5:33 am
I wish there were only one moment. There are entirely too many. I’ve sunk so low that I’ve seen my 6 year old – not just spit in her own hand to wipe off her face, but to wipe off her little sister’s face too.
June 9th, 2008 at 10:14 am
My daughter is a super singer, so she is always performing. She is also a terribly messy eater. She can have a cookie with one chocolate chip, right in the middle, and she will have the chocolate from that chip all over her by the end of the cookie session. Well, right before she went on stage to sing at a local talent show, I had a mommy-spit moment, just to remove all the gunk that she leaves on her face, and she almost had a break-down because it was ‘so gross/’ Oops.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
I sure could have used this when I made the mistake of letting my youngest have a popsicle in the car. Juice ran down his hand and arm and it was a sticky mess. I think Momspit just might have solved my problem that day.
June 9th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Anytime my baby’s pacifier falls on the ground I suck on it first before giving it back to her. I’m sure it is illogical and that I’m just putting ickiness in my mouth and then passing ickiness along to her…but it makes me feel better inside!