If your yoga instructor is doing her job, you’ll get nice and sweaty when you go to class. Good for your body, but your yoga mat is bound to get a bit… ripe after a while. Most of these things aren’t machine washable, so what do you do? Well, you can grab one of these handy little yoga mat cleaners. The individually wrapped wipes are infused with essential aromatherapy oils and sanitized to effectively clean your mat. They dry quickly, “leaving the yoga mat with its important sticky surface and a faint lingering scent that invigorates the senses and adds to your yoga practice.” Available scents include lavender, peppermint, eucalyptus, and tangerine.
The wipes are environmentally friendly (plus the packaging is 100% recyclable) as well as skin friendly (the cleaners don’t use alcohol or bleach). It’ll cost you $11.95 for a pack of 20 individually wrapped wipes.
Sometimes you go to a yoga class, and it seems like you’re surrounded by the ultra-serious I’m-being-one-with-my-body-and-my-mind types. They’ve got the matching yoga outfit, they can twist their bodies into pretzels, and they never crack a smile. You can try to emulate those people if you want… but if you’re like me and you’d rather pretend you’ve got a little personality, maybe a fun yoga mat is a way you could let everyone know.
This “Kam Kam” yoga/pilates mat features a fat little cat and comes with a matching carrying case. If dogs are more your style, there’s a “Don Don” mat with a cartoon hound. Both cost $37.