Fitness company is using a special fabric to protect healthcare workers

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Friday, April 10, 2020
Idea for stink-free fabric helping with face mask demand
This Houston business owner's idea for sink-free workout clothes is now helping thousands of healthcare workers!

HOUSTON, Texas -- Accel Lifestyle was started by a chemist who was simply tired of throwing out her husbands and hers stinky workout clothes. [br /][br /]Megan Eddings invented a better, cleaner fabric that is not only stronger and softer than most exercise clothes. It's antibacterial and doesn't stink.[br /][Ads /][br /]After the COVID-19 pandemic began, Eddings wanted to use her invention to help people. [br /][br /]It took only a few days, and her company was able to start producing masks with the special Prema® fabric.[br /][Ads /][br /]Accel Lifestyle is now shipping the masks to hospitals like Houston Methodist.