Aesthetician Sara Damelio founded Skincando.com, a D.C.-based skin care company in 2000. Throughout the course of the past decade of war, her company developed a line of skin care products known as Combat-Ready, specifically designed to support the needs of U.S. troops overseas. In 2008, Damelio was so moved by the response to her products that she established a not-for-profit, known as Operation Sand Flea, which allows customers to donate her specially formulated Combat-Ready products at a 50 percent discount to servicemen and women in the Middle East. This Fourth of July, with the help of her customers, she is preparing to send even more Combat-Ready products to the war zone in an effort to protect soldiers against skin cancer and desert fleas.
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