A Wirral woman plans to take her lockdown idea to Dragon's Den.
Kath Hickey owns her own cleaning company and during lockdown, she hatched plans to break into a new business with her product.
The 42-year-old created Gleaming Gloss, a chemical free cleaning spray, as she believes the chemicals in some cleaning products are more dangerous than people think.
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Working as a cleaner herself for many years, Kath explained how she feels the pandemic really showed the importance of cleaning staff, she told the ECHO: "I've got my own cleaning business and I know the game, so I thought who better to make the product than someone who knows the game?
"We're really passionate about squashing the sort of stigma against cleaning, about it being a dead-end job and bottom of the pecking order. Especially after the pandemic it's really necessary now so we've really grown with that."
Government advice during the pandemic meant that regular cleaning of all surfaces was encouraged and as a result, demand for cleaners rocketed.
After a successful start, which has saw the entrepreneur make it into the National Women Business Awards, Kath now plans to pitch her idea to the business giants on Dragon's Den
She added: "It's difficult to put a figure on things, but we're doing really well and the product will make me a lot of money, I'm positive.
"It's very difficult running two businesses, very difficult. I don't get much free time at all."
Kath claims the low carbon team at Liverpool John Moores university tested her product and declared it chemical free and non-toxic.
She said: "The Liverpool School of Medicine have also been in touch to run tests on the product too, we're really pushing it as a self care product.
"People worry a lot about products that they put on their skin and hair but I read somewhere that all the chemicals you use in your home for cleaning are the equivalent of smoking 20 cigarettes a day, so that's definitely the road we're going down, to change that."
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