Stick to the store-bought stuff––or just soap and water.
It's a comforting idea, of course: When stores run of out hand sanitizer, you can just make your own—but is homemade hand sanitizer really as useful as store-bought, or could it even be potentially harmful?Unfortunately for the specific isopropyl alcohol and aloe vera industries—two products that are recommended for DIY hand sanitizer, and are also sold out in many places—making your own hand sanitizer isn't medically recommended.
Even if that recipe was made exactly as instructed, it would yield you 10 liters of hand sanitizer, or just over 2.6 gallons. And while some outlets, that also makes human error a very real possibility. The same, of course, goes for the other recipe, which uses a mixture of aloe vera gel, essential oils, and 91% isopropyl alcohol. Essentially, according to Dr.
Lastly, according Rick Sachleben, a former chemist and member of the American Chemical Society, all commercially-sold hand sanitizer products have been tested for their efficacy. "Anything you buy has been through that [testing] process," he says, pointing out that home concoctions have not, meaning their level of effectiveness is unknown.
We know—this is all kind of a downer, especially if you went out and stocked up on isopropyl alcohol and aloe vera after learning your local store was out of the real stuff. But even if you don't have hand sanitizer at your disposal, Dr. Vyas says it's not the end of the world. "Hand sanitizer is secondary to handwashing. That should be the standard of care," she says.
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