When a child fusses because water and soap dribble on their face during bathtime – it’s not fun. Put the playtime back in bathtime with the FunSpunge™ Headband! FunSpunge is a hands-free product that absorbs water, keeping it off your child’s face making it easier for you to wash hair without crying.
Many nights I would sit on the side of my bath tub trying to wash my son’s hair. Every event would lead to my son screaming about needing a washcloth and water in his eyes.
My son was well over 2 years old at the time, almost 3. Every night he would scream to the top of his lungs when I tried to wash his hair. He hated having water and soap dribble in his face. I went to all the big named retailers and I found a couple of products that I thought would solve this problem but none of them worked.
As I was sitting on the edge of the tub one night, a light bulb went off in my head. Hey, why don’t you create something? That is when the process began.
inventor: Mia Hunter
I am the CEO/Founder of NPS USA, LLC and creator of the FunSpunge.
I started the company in August of 2010. Many nights I would sit on the side of my bath tub trying to wash my son’s hair. Every event would lead to my son screaming about needing a washcloth and water in his eyes.
My son was well over 2 years old at the time, almost 3. Every night he would scream to the top of his lungs when I tried to wash his hair. He hated having water and soap dribble in his face. I went to all the big named retailers and I found a couple of products that I thought would solve this problem but none of them worked.
As I was sitting on the edge of the tub one night, a light bulb went off in my head. Hey, why don’t you create something for him to play with in the tub that would distract him from the hair washing process? There are plenty of toys that he brought in the tub from his room to distract him but I was thinking something “bigger”.
When I looked around this small one bedroom apartment that I live in with my children, I decided that I was going to go as far as I could go and make it work. There are two goals that I wished to accomplish and one was to buy my children a home where they had their own room and could run around in their own backyard, and the other, was to make a product that every parent could use for those children that hate to get their hair washed. I know that my neighbors are happy that I invented this product because now, they don’t have to hear my son scream as if I were murdering him.
What I did right was believe in my dream. I didn’t give up. I have no idea how this is going to work. I have no marketing budget, no advertising dollars, I don’t really know how to publish myself and get traffic to my website.
I entered into a contest for the “Next Great Inventor’s Infomercial” sponsored by Telebrands and Z100 NY radio station. The FunSpunge was chosen by public to be a finalist to pitch our product to A.J. Kubani, the CEO of Telebrands. Unfortunately, we didn’t win the contest, but we received great exposure from the Daily News. My daughter modeled the FunSpunge and I did a demonstration. The next day she was on page 16 of the Daily News with a picture that took up the whole page. It was the most exciting day of my life. That same day the producers of Fox & Friends called my daughter and I to be on their live broadcast because they thought the product was so cool. We were mentioned in a couple of different articles all stemming from that one contest.
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