Great Throughts Treasury

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Ludwick Marishane, fully Ludwick Profane Parishane

South African Inventor of Water-less Bathing Lotion, 2011 Global Student Entrepreneur of the Year. Founder of Headbody Industries which produces DryBath

"Find what you love doing, and exert all your effort on pursuing it. Do as much as you can on your own, and always ask for help when you need it. Embrace failure, because you will only ever experience it if you give up, not if you try & fail to succeed. I plan to use the title of Best Student entrepreneur in the World to start the world's first entrepreneurship league, and to roll this out globally over the next 5 years. I am dedicating my life to enabling the world's youth to follow their dreams, and I urge other entrepreneurs to do the same...by first following their dreams!"

"DryBath is the world's first and only bath-substituting skin gel...you apply it to your skin, then you don't need to bathe. I invented it to benefit people from the poorest communities in the world, and also for people in the developed world. For people without water, DryBath provides empowerment as an affordable tool to achieve lifesaving personal hygiene without having to be dependent on stagnant community water infrastructure development. For wealthier communities, it offers a convenient way to save time and decrease their unhealthy practice of unnecessary daily bathing (which is proven to cause continuous drying of the skin), while achieving adequate personal hygiene. In both situations, precious water is saved, which can be put to better use."