Kris Jenner says Kylie Skin is now producing 'custom hand sanitizers' for hospitals fighting COVID-19
Kylie Jenner is stepping up and using her cosmetic line to help combat the coronavirus pandemic by manufacturing hand sanitizers.
In a press release Tuesday, March 31, the 22-year-old billionaire along with her momager, Kris Jenner, announced that the duo had partnered with Coty, the beauty conglomerate and Kylie Skin investor, to manufacture hand sanitizers for hospitals in southern California.
“The custom hand sanitizer includes a special message for recipients: ‘Dedicated to first responders working to support our communities,'” according to a press release. The hand sanitizers produced by the company will be donated to the emergency and healthcare workers tirelessly treating infected patients amid COVID-19 public health crisis.
According to Page Six, a representative for the brand confirmed that the production of Kylie Skin products will not suffer as a result of the company's additional workload and that the hand sanitizers will be produced by Coty’s factories.
The report came after news that the fulfillment centers that work for both Kylie Cosmetics and sister Kim Kardashian’s KKW Beauty lines had temporarily shut down amid California’s statewide shelter-in-place order.
Kylie also quietly donated a million dollars to her OB-GYN last month, which will go toward funding the cost of hundreds of thousands of masks, face shields, and other protective gear for the first responders. After Dr Thaïs Aliabadi, who helped deliver Kylie's baby, Stormi, gushed about the donation on Instagram, the lip-kit mogul's rep told Page Six, “I can confirm that she did make the donation.”
Also, after Surgeon General, Jerome Adams begged social media influencers like Kylie for spreading the message of awareness about social distancing among Millenials on 'Good Morning America' the 'Keeping Up With The Kardashians' star took to Instagram stories to advise her followers on how they could effectively battle the deadly virus.
'Hey, guys. Happy self-quarantine!” Kylie said in the video post. “I know I’ve already been doing my daily reminders about how important it is right now to practice social distancing and self-quarantine. I’m going on my ninth day. The coronavirus is a real thing. I listened to the Surgeon General this morning…he definitely encouraged me to come on here and talk to you guys."
She begged them to practice self-isolation: "Please stay inside. Please stay inside. Practice social distancing, self-quarantine. If you live with your parents, you don’t want to go home and get your parents sick. You might have it and not even know and be infecting other people. It’s serious and the only way that we’re gonna slow this down is if we do this because there is not a cure right now.”
She added: “Nobody is immune to this. Millennials are not immune to this. New evidence actually shows that a large percentage of people in the hospital right now are young adults. I love you guys. We’re going to get through this together. We just have to listen to each other, respect each other, self-quarantine.”
Just days before recording the video, Kylie told her fans on social media that she was already used to self-isolating because she did not step out of home for months when she was pregnant with Stormi.