Recess.

Thirty euphoric minutes of anthill-squashing, kickball-playing, tree-climbing bliss.

The playground may be a haven of excitement for little Luca, but for you it’s a breeding ground for grimy fingernails and colonies of E. coli.

You’re not alone. After watching their kids frolic in (scary) stagnant fountain water at a local park, Scott Gordon and Sherise Macgregor decided to create 3 Smelly Kids CleanGel to keep their active progeny clean and germ-free.

The hand sanitizer kills 99.9 percent of cold-causing germs in less than fifteen seconds and comes in convenient two-ounce bottles for easy backpack stowing. Scents include gingerbread, fruit salad, and candy cane, making their formerly mucky hands smell sweet, to boot.

And that’s more than you can say for Luca’s wormy mud pies.

Available online at 3smellykids.com.