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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I’ve got a 5 gallon pail of lacquer thinner. Kinda burns though.
Those paranoid WWII era people hoarded what they could and had victory gardens too
I grabbed a gallon of “cleaning bleach” which I think is just bleach but the bottle has dilution ratios for various uses.
Sad that some have to suggest recipes for cleanliness.
If ya wash your hands, you don’t need this soap substitute crap. Ivory and hot water.
Probably because those Ali have acetone in them to help speed drying. Absolutely destroys plastics
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