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Coronavirus Coronavirus prevention: How to make hand sanitizer at home
oregonlive.com ^ | 4/4/2020 | By Grant Butler

Posted on 03/04/2020 5:47:53 PM PST by NoLibZone

If you weren’t able to snap up a bottle of hand sanitizer before stores sold out, you can make your own. You find the basic ingredients in any drug store and most grocery stores. Here’s what you need:

2/3 cup Isopropyl alcohol 91% (rubbing alcohol) 1/3 cup aloe vera gel Essential oil in your choice of fragrance (optional) A small or medium mixing bowl A spoon An empty container, such as a 3-ounce container from a travel toiletries kit A small piece of masking tape for labeling

Here’s how to make it:

In a mixing bowl, stir Isopropyl alcohol and aloe vera gel together until well blended.

Add 8-10 drops of scented essential oil (optional, but nice!). Stir to incorporate.

Pour the homemade hand sanitizer into an empty container and seal. Write “hand sanitizer” on a piece of masking tape and affix to the bottle.

The CDC recommends using hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol content. This recipe makes a sanitizer that slightly exceeds that alcohol content at 60.66%, so follow the proportions exactly. If you want a sanitizer with a higher alcohol percentage, decrease the amount of aloe vera to 1/4 cup.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; covid19; handsanitizer; handsnitizer; windex
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To: printhead

Yes but most people have a container of those wipes under the kitchen sink. I mentioned it to my neighbors and sure enough 8 out of 10 had them. People buy them during flu season and then put them back Ndebele the sink.


41 posted on 03/04/2020 6:30:15 PM PST by McGavin999 (Queen Fancy Nancy Of North Poopistan)
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To: McGavin999

Monk needs wipes
https://youtu.be/9qguneiPiQY


42 posted on 03/04/2020 6:31:57 PM PST by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
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To: castlebrew

What a waste.


43 posted on 03/04/2020 6:32:46 PM PST by sasquatch
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To: dinodino

‘employees in China’ - I just don’t see comparing China’s response/ health and safety laws/ hospitals - anything - to what we have here in the US (except for of course the crappy streets in San Fran).

What are you hearing??


44 posted on 03/04/2020 6:33:34 PM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: bboop

The reports of extremely aggressive cordons sanitaire are true: people are being locked into their buildings, or if not locked in, they are not allowed to leave without showing a pass to get out on the street...also, emptied stores.

Anybody who says it’s “just a flu” should ask himself: “Would the Chinese destroy their entire economy for a few cases of a common flu?”


45 posted on 03/04/2020 6:39:12 PM PST by dinodino
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To: lepton

I have a huge aloe vera plant. Literaly Huge.


46 posted on 03/04/2020 6:39:46 PM PST by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga)
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To: dp0622

The sad part is
Who is gonna use
All This damn Sanitizer?
.
It all smells like
Cat Piss!


47 posted on 03/04/2020 6:40:18 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: NoLibZone

Out of curiosity, I checked out a Kroger and CVS a couple of hours ago. Shelves are full - plenty of hand sanitizer, TP, milk, bread etc.


48 posted on 03/04/2020 6:41:12 PM PST by Ken H (Best SOTU ever!)
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To: dp0622

Here's what mine will be, accompanied by lamentations of many women.

49 posted on 03/04/2020 6:44:58 PM PST by Ken H (Best SOTU ever!)
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To: DouglasKC

Where’s the Oat Milk?


50 posted on 03/04/2020 6:46:12 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: CaptainPhilFan

Hah! Great movie!


51 posted on 03/04/2020 6:46:19 PM PST by miserare ( Trump, forever and ever. Amen.)
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To: Ken H

Laz, did you take a new screen name?


52 posted on 03/04/2020 6:48:22 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: NoLibZone

Isopropyl alcohol and paper towels. No mixing No fuss. No muss


53 posted on 03/04/2020 6:48:46 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: dp0622
A great funeral.

I think scores of us would attend your funeral, FRiemd.

54 posted on 03/04/2020 6:51:07 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: Ken H

Lol


55 posted on 03/04/2020 6:51:30 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't but w finger at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to makne ends meet)
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To: Ken H

Lol


56 posted on 03/04/2020 6:51:30 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't but w finger at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to makne ends meet)
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To: NoLibZone

Is it hoarded in being prepared and thus responsible? I can pretty Mich guarantee the guv’s been buying up major quantities similarly.


57 posted on 03/04/2020 6:54:12 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: NoLibZone

LOL Grew up without hand sanitizer, we washed our hands with soap and water, funny, I’m still alive!!!


58 posted on 03/04/2020 6:55:18 PM PST by siamesecats (God closes one door, and opens another, to protect us.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Where’s the Oat Milk?

No self respecting Kentuckian would buy Oat Milk....

59 posted on 03/04/2020 7:01:22 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: NoLibZone

anyone know of a good reliable brand for those oxygen finger testers. had been thinking of getting one anyway. Seems like a good thing to have. I don’t want to spend $200 for one, though.


60 posted on 03/04/2020 7:07:23 PM PST by RummyChick
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