Posted: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:44:44 +0000

Health is the new wealth. Many companies and entrepreneurs are creating new, innovative products with an emphasis on the consumer’s health and body image, knowing that healthcare is an area which can unlock potential riches. Here are some of the most creative and interesting concepts we’ve seen lately:

• White Glo’s Crave Away toothpaste is the first appetite control toothpaste that not only whitens and cleans your teeth, but helps suppress appetite as well. Apparently, it is created with herbal formulas which signal the brain that the body has eaten. Creative and effective way of weight management … unless you don’t brush your teeth everyday.

• Bliss’s Ray of Hope is a water-resistant sunscreen which uses a combination of a UV activated slimming ingredient and caffeine to temporarily tighten skin when you need it most, for example, while lying on the beach wearing a bikini. It helps to protect your skin from harmful UV rays while enhancing your body image at the same time.

• The VIOlight toothbrush sanitizer claims to kill 99.9% of germs found on your toothbrush using UV light. Plug it into the power outlet, place your toothbrushes in the four slots, press the button, and the 10 minutes of ultra violet light treatment would have killed all those nasty germs and bugs that may endanger your family everyday.

• You may have to go for a jab from time to time. Make it as painless as possible with the Luminetx VeinViewer which claims to eliminate off-target jabs by showing the nurse exactly where to poke. It uses near infrared light to detect veins inside our body and produces a strange green web on a piece of plastic on your arm, showing the whereabouts of your veins.

Can you come up with the next big idea in the healthcare industry?

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This New Business Ideas Report is compiled specially for Small Business Trends from the editors ofCoolBusinessIdeas.com.

Tags: health care, healthcare, small business health