While everyone is scrambling to find hand sanitizer, which is virtually impossible to find in stores these days due to the Covid-19 corona virus, you can be cranking out bottles at home with just three simple ingredients.* Most of which, as soap makers, you will already have.

As with the manufacture of all personal cleansing products, prior words of caution are advised:

• Be sure to wash your hands thoroughly before beginning.
• Be sure to wash down your counter area with a diluted bleach solution.
• Be sure all mixing utensils and containers are clean
• Do not touch the ingredients with your hands prior to mix completion
• Wearing gloves and cover over nose and mouth is advised to prevent contamination.
• Do not deviate from the recipe for maximum effectiveness
• Do not use sanitizer on children or others with sensitive skin
• Use only when regular hand washing with soap and water is not available

Hand Sanitizer Ingredients:

2 Parts – Isopropyl or Ethanol Alcohol (91-99%)

1 Part- Aloe Vera Gel

5- 10 Drops Essential Oil (or Lemon Juice if oil is not available)

In a clean bowl or mixing cup, put one part aloe vera gel. (for example 4 oz of aloe vera gel) Add twice as much alcohol, 2 parts (that would be 8 oz. alcohol) Add essential oil or lemon juice. Use a clean whisk to whip the mixture into a uniform, well mixed solution.

Using a clean funnel if necessary, pour the sanitizing liquid into clean containers (bottles) for convenient dispensing.

That’s it!

The resulting mixtures contains the appropriate 60% strength of alcohol which is recommended to kill viruses.

Use: to maximize effectiveness, apply enough hand sanitizer to fully wet hands and fingers. Rub for a full 60 seconds until sanitizer has completely dried.

While proper washing for 20 seconds with soap and water is the best and safest way to insure your hands do not distribute the virus, hand sanitizer is an important defense when soap and water are not available.

Be safe. Stay healthy.

-Robert Schwarztrauber

P.S. I would be remiss if I didn’t suggest how sanitizer can help you sell more soap while also helping your customers be fully prepared to properly ward off any and all germs and viruses with both sanitizer AND soap . Why not bundle a complete kit, or gift basket, as I suggested in my my Special Report:101 Ways to Sell More Soap!

*Information obtained from CDC recommendations and professor of health sciences at Ball State University via the website https://www.healthline.com/health/how-to-make-hand-sanitizer#ingredients

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