If you just can’t keep yourself from licking your hands and/or those delicious train poles while riding the Metro, the folks at City Mitts may have a solution for you. The City Mitt gloves are made out of a “brand new antimicrobial microfilter embedded with silver ions” which they claim will “prevent the growth of bacteria.” Similar anti-bacterial silver treatments have been given to some cellphones, as well. The gloves are designed to provide sufficient grip for phones, credit cards, and anything else you might want to put your bacteria-resistant hands on. The gloves can also be worn off the train as well, providing ample anti-bacterial protection against all the other fertile microbial breeding grounds in your life, such as your computer keyboard, or your significant other.

City Mitts come in a variety of sizes, are machine washable, and one pair is only $20, which, when you think about it, pales in comparison to the amount it would take to treat the flesh-eating bacterial infection you’ll probably catch the next time you commute bare-handed.