Airlines Get Tough on Weight – Travel Sizes Make Travel Light

If you are planning on taking a trip this Spring or Summer that includes air travel you may find yourself confronted with new, stricter weight regulations.

Newbury Park, CA (PRWEB) April 8, 2006 -- Airline regulatory bodies recently implemented new and more stringent weight regulations for checked baggage. All airlines have either adopted, or will be adopting them, in time for the busy summer travel season. In recent years, major carriers have gotten stricter with size and weight allowances for carry on baggage as well. Many passengers may find that they will have to leave something behind to meet weight requirements or be faced with paying hefty overage charges.

Minimus.biz, a company out of Newbury Park, CA that specializes in travel size products, has a clever solution for travelers who don’t want to sacrifice comfort by leaving favorite items at home. Their continually expanding line of major brand products includes items consumers don’t want to be without when traveling; toothpaste, mouthwash, soap, shampoos, deodorant, all in significantly smaller sizes.

Minimus.biz Vice President Paul Shrater says “we did a fun experiment, in a very unscientific way, where we took the products typically found in a traveler’s toiletry bag, products most people use every single day, and compared the same compliment of toiletries in travel sizes” The products were then weighed and measured. “Of course, the travel sizes comprised just a fraction of the full sized items, but even we were surprised at the results.” The items that most people use in a typical day tipped the scales at nine pounds. In travel size the same products allow a savvy consumer to travel with a mere one pound of product. See the results here: http://www.minimus.biz/blog.html

When every pound of overage is costing you, outfitting yourself with a compliment of travel sized products can make sense and “cents.” With that much weight saved, a savvy traveler might also want to throw in some additional items to make their trip more comfortable like a hand sanitizer, a sizing spray to take wrinkles out of clothes, fabric wipes that remove stains quickly or even snack food items all of which can be found on the Minimus.biz web site.

Most, if not all, consumers are familiar with travel sized items. Many of us may even travel with a miniature toothpaste or shaving cream but what will probably surprise most consumers is the variety of items that are available. From the beginning, Minimus.biz has been seeking out the products you love to use every day in convenient travel sizes. If they don’t carry a product that you like to travel with, just ask them and they will try and find it for you.

Airline professionals, business people who travel often and other savvy travelers know and love these products for their portability and ease of use. Minimus.biz is the only place where customers can shop online for all of their favorite products in travel size.

“We get a lot of feedback from customers who tell us they have been searching for a long time for their favorite products in travel size and they finally found them on our website.”

Airline travelers aren’t the only ones who can use travel size products. Campers, RV enthusiasts, people traveling by car who want to save space, and students staying in dorms love them too. Seeing their favorite products in miniature seems to inspire an emotional response in a lot of consumers, “there is definitely a charm factor with these items. People can’t help but look at them and say ‘awww, these are so cute.’”

Minimus.biz is the first and only exclusive provider of travel size products. USA Today called them one of the ten most useful travel websites, “The Today Show” recently featured their amenity products for overnight guests, and NASA recently bought condiments from Minimus.biz to send up to the International Space Station. To see pictures, and read more about their packing experiment, or to learn more about Minimus.biz and their products log onto www.minimus.biz.

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