We feel we’ve been harping on scary ingredients in products and flu-fighting tactics a lot of late – so when we found Anti-Monster Spray, which combines immune system boosting properties with recognizable ingredients and a healthy dose of fun, we had to share.

Anti-Monster Spray doesn’t just repel the bacteria that cause staph, strep and pneumonia, it can also be used to scare away the imaginary monsters pestering your tot. You can spray it on your kids’ beds, sheets, pillows and pjs for a one two anti-viral anti-bacterial punch. And your kids can spray it in any nook and cranny around your house where monsters, ghosts and beasties lurk.

The best part? Although the formulation is the same, you can pick from four different visual variations: Blue Boogie, Green Blob, Pink Prickles and Purple Thing. So you choose whichever one you think will go over best with your babe.

Made in the States by Le FP Green Body Care – whose founder is of Canadian origin – Anti-Monster gets it power from essential oils of lavender, lemon, mandarin, peppermint and tea tree. And it doesn’t contain Parabens, Phthlates. Sodium Lauryl/Laureth Sulfate, Triethanolamine or Diethanolamine. And frankly we think those things sound a lot scarier than anything that may be lurking underneath the bed or in the closet.

We put Anti-Monster Spray to the test at the end of last spring’s cold season to great effect. We may have gone a bit overboard trotting around behind our tots spraying down doorknobs and light switches with liberal aplomb but it seemed to work as no one succumbed to anything germy. Plus it leaves rooms smelling sweet rather than that lingering, coldy fug that feels so unhealthy.

And with the impending release of Where the Wild Things Are in mid October it seems only timely to gird our loins and be prepared to battle monsters. In whatever form they take.

Anti-Monster Spray: www.naylanaturalcare.com