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My Raynaud’s Story and Why I Created Toasty Touch
Hello, my name is Natalie, and I’m a frosty. I’ve got a bad case of Raynaud's syndrome. It’s why I started Toasty Touch and created the world’s first-ever ultra thin heated gloves for people with this frustrating condition, and for anyone who simply needs warm hands when it really matters.
Toasty Touch founder Natalie in her garden
It all started in my backyard garden
I was watering my tomato plants when I looked down and noticed something odd had happened to my index finger. The tip was white!
For 10 minutes, cold water had been trickling over that finger, transforming it into a cold, numb, colorless Otter Pop. I'd never seen anything like it.
I shook my hand, did a double take, scrunched my face and blinked my eyes in an attempt to compute what I was looking at. At that time, I'd never even heard the word "Raynaud's."
I was puzzled but not too concerned as I dropped the hose and went inside to try to warm up my zombie finger and bring it back to life.
Natalie's fingertips during a Raynaud’s episode
That's when everything changed
On that spring day, I didn’t have a clue how profoundly Raynaud’s would affect, change, and upend my life. I didn’t know that my Raynaud’s would accelerate from zero to 90 in a matter of months.
If the temperature wasn’t at least 68 degrees, my fingers turned white and ulcers began to form on the tips. The doctor said I had severe Raynaud's. I tried every medication my doctor could think to throw at me, and nothing helped. And suddenly, everything in my life was different. Even indoors, my fingers would go numb and lose color. I swear I spent half my days reheating my hands in warm water. I clutched heat packs and wrapped my hands in heating pads. It was no way to live.
The search for a solution
On the brink of losing hope, I discovered heated gloves. Yes! I finally had an answer. Something that could restore my quality of life.
The only problem? All the heated gloves I could get my hands on were made for winter sports, skiing, shoveling snow. They were just too thick and bulky to do anything in my daily life. I wanted heated gloves I could wear in my everyday life. I needed a thin layer of heat without bulky insulation so that I could actually use my fingers as I warmed them. Pick things up. Take a credit card out off my wallet. Type on a keyboard. Open my mail. Send a text to a friend. All the little moments that make up a day.
The gloves I needed didn’t exist… yet
The gloves I envisioned simply did not exist. I searched. I tried. I plumbed the depths of Google. The ultra thin heated gloves for my condition I knew I needed were not a thing. Yet.
I decided to create the ideal heated Raynaud's gloves myself! Why should skiers get all the heated gloves when people with cold frozen fingers are the ones who really need them?
Surely there must be others looking for this product! Right? Right?? I'd never met anyone else with this problem, but they had to be out there. So in 2021, I designed the first prototype of Toasty Touch gloves, and my co-founder and I officially launched this company in February 2022. I hoped people would love them as much as I did.
This review from customer Kelly J. is one of the first reviews we ever got, and I still remember it to this day! It meant the world to me.
Kelly J. about Toasty Touch Ultra-Thin Heated Gloves ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
May 24th, 2022
I am so grateful I found these amazing gloves via a Facebook Raynaud’s group and I am soooo impressed. I love them. So far I have had no flare-ups of my Raynaud’s and usually I can have 20 plus a day. It’s the afternoon and I have not had 1. I have scleroderma and Raynaud’s for the past 10 years battling hard and these gloves have given me another lease on life. I can still write, use my phone etc etc. I cannot express how much these gloves have changed my life and it’s only been 1 day. I am soooo happy I bought 2 pairs since I’m in NZ. Thanks so much for designing these — they are literally life savers for me.
What people say today
People say our gloves are "life changing," "game changing," and "amazing."
They say Toasty Touch ultra thin heated gloves have given them “a new lease on life.” And honestly? Hearing that never gets old. Every message, every review, every DM from someone who finally feels warm enough to live their life again, reminds me exactly why I took the leap and created these gloves in the first place.
I know how exhausting cold hands can be: the pain, planning your entire day around keeping your hands warm. So when someone tells me they were able to grocery shop comfortably, or garden, or type, or just be present without their fingers turning white, it means everything.
This idea that began in my backyard garden is now helping people all over the world world find comfort, confidence, and relief. I’m endlessly grateful to be on this frosty journey with you.
Key Things I Needed in Heated Gloves
- Thin enough for everyday tasks
- Consistent, reliable warmth for my freezing hands
- Lightweight batteries
- Dexterity to type, use my phone, and pick things up
Toasty Touch® Ultra Thin Heated Gloves
$207.00
The heat you need without the bulk. Warm your hands for hours and keep using them with the thinnest heated gloves ever created. “I've finally found something that helps my Raynaud's!” “Life changing!” “Game-changing!” “No more white fingers!” “I've been waiting… read more
FAQs
How did Toasty Touch gloves come to be?
Natalie, the founder of Toasty Touch, created them after discovering that no ultra thin heated gloves existed for everyday life for her Raynaud’s symptoms. The available existing heated glove options were too thick. In 2021, she set out to create a lightweight heated glove people could actually use. Toasty Touch was born, and officially launched in 2022.
What is Raynaud’s syndrome?
Raynaud’s is a condition where blood vessels in the fingers and toes overreact to cold, causing them to turn white, numb, or painful. Even mild temperatures can trigger symptoms for some people.
Why are thin heated gloves a good tool for people with Raynaud’s?
Most heated gloves are bulky and made for winter sports, not for everyday tasks that require dexterity. People with Raynaud’s need warmth without losing dexterity, the ability to pick things up, type, cook, or manage daily tasks.
Do Toasty Touch heated gloves really help with Raynaud’s symptoms?
Many people with Raynaud’s find consistent heat incredibly relieving. Customers describe Toasty Touch gloves as “life changing” because the steady warmth helps reduce color loss, numbness, and discomfort. Check out the Toasty Touch customer reviews here: https://toastytouch.com/pages/reviews