Beaches are nice, but sand kind of sucks.
Gritty, grainy, and abrasive, it infiltrates bathing suits, sandwiches, and the space between your toes. Trying to banish it before it rides home with you, especially if you don’t have water handy, can add annoyance and delay at the end of a hot, sticky day.
For some of our Wirecutter staff members, the promise of a sand-filled afternoon is enough to keep them from the shore.
So when our social feeds lit up with the Shakalo Sandscreen Sand Removal Bag, a roughly $25 cotton sack filled with powder promising to quickly and easily remove sand from skin, we decided to give it a try. We tested it against a cheapie DIY hack—an old sock filled with cornstarch—to see if it could turn our sand-haters into beach bums.
