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The Public Restroom Survival Kit includes travel-sized packets of toilet seat covers, disinfecting wipes, surface cleaners and toilet paper.

Staying shower-fresh and stain-free when you’re on the road can be challenging. Especially for air travelers who must snooze sitting up and squeeze a week’s worth of cleansing lotions and cosmetic potions into those tiny see-through baggies.

A sponge bath in a public restroom sink can be awkward, so Travel Kit rounded up an assortment of travel-sized products that may come in handy next time you or your favorite road warrior is creased, crinkled or stinky and away from home.

Paper Shower

Paper Shower can help you feel refreshed while you're on the road.

Paper showers and public restroom survival kits
Moist towelettes can be a lifesaver when your hands — or the tray table and the armrests on the airplane — are sticky and full of germs. For bigger jobs, there’s the Paper Shower, a two-part packet with a wet side containing a paper towel dipped in alcohol-free soap and skin moisturizers and a second, super-absorbent towel on the dry side to remove what the wet portion leaves behind.

These days you can find all manner of travel-sized soaps, shampoos, toothpastes and hand sanitizers in drugstores but “at the request of several self-proclaimed germaphobes,” Paul Shrater said his company, Minimus.biz, put together the Public Restroom Survival Kit, which is stocked with travel-sized packets of toilet seat covers, disinfecting wipes, surface cleaners and toilet paper.

Supersmile Quikee

Supersmile Quikee is a pocket-sized, no brush/no rinse tooth polish.

In the online cleaning supplies aisle, Minimus.biz offers travel-sized odor eliminators and bed bug spray and, elsewhere on the site, Shrater finds that “Travel-sized Febreze and Lysol tend to be very popular.”

Lip-stick sized deodorants and no-brush tooth polish
Over at 3Floz.com (“For those who travel, those who are curious and those who can’t commit”) bestsellers among the personal care travel items include Beze Deodorettes, which are lipstick-sized mini-deodorants that fit into a purse or a pocket and Supersmile Quikee, a pocket-sized no brush/no rinse tooth polish.

Silver Linings

Silver Linings are ultra-thin shoe inserts made with silver to absorb bacterial odor.

And for those who like to kick off their shoes on the airplane, but are self-conscious about the smell, there are Silver Linings, thin shoe inserts made with silver to absorb bacterial odor.

Of course, out on the road it’s not just people who get grimy. “For well-traveled smartphones, we have cellphone cleaning wipes,” said Minimus.biz’s Shrater. “They’re called Celly Smellys and are a popular and interesting curiosity.”

Harriet Baskas is a frequent contributor to msnbc.com, authors the “Stuck at the Airport” blog and is a columnist for USATODAY.com. You can follow her on Twitter.

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