It’s nigh unto impossible to get a hold of rubbing alcohol right now, but you can use vodka, instead. Aloe Vera gel is still available, but the price has gone up.
Regular Vodka isn’t strong enough to make hand sanitizer. Even 100 proof Vodka would only be 50% alcohol and it has to be at least 60% after you’ve mixed in your other ingredients for it to be effective. When distillers make Vodka it comes out pure then they dilute it to make it the correct alcohol content for sale to the public. So if they want to make hand sanitizer it’s easy for them. Once it’s made its way to the liquor store it’s too weak. The only drinking alcohol really suitable would be pure grain alcohol.
I don’t think you absolutely need aloe vera gel.
You can substitute Dawn or any gentle-on-skin dishwashing liquid soap. It’s the strong alcohol that is the disinfecting agent.
But if you do use dish soap, you’d have to wash with water & dry every time, not like “hand sanitizer” that only requires a squirt & a rub.
Personally, I prefer the alcohol-soap + water at home. It’s more thorough.
The alcohol+ aloe vera hand sanitizer is what I take to go out of the house.