Homemade Hand Sanitizer
We will show you how to make your own homemade hand sanitizer that works just as well as the store-bought types.
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With it being cold and flu season, many people add hand sanitizer to their shopping lists.
Older adults, children and people with compromised immune systems are the ones that are at the greatest risk of not being able to fight off colds, and flu (if they became infected).
The best thing we can all do is make sure to wash our hands often! Very Very Often!
Sometimes washing our hands just isn’t an option though.
So what do we do then?
We use hand sanitizer!
This homemade hand sanitizer not only works just as well as the store-bought types but it smells a lot better and is much less expensive.
You will only need a few simple ingredients from the store, although most of us may even have them in our homes already.
Medical professionals and the CDC have said that the most effective hand sanitizers are comprised of at least 60% alcohol.
Those hand sanitizers tend to really dry out your hands quickly because they are basically alcohol. That’s why we add Aloe Vera gel and Essential Oils.
Homemade Hand Sanitizer Recipe
2/3 cup Alcohol
1/3 cup Aloe Vera Gel
Essential Oil of your choice
Directions
In a bowl mix alcohol and aloe vera gel together.
Add several drops of essential oil till you have your desired fragrance.
Using a funnel, pour into a travel size bottle. This will work well to carry in your purse or in the car.
You can also pour this mixture into a pump bottle to use around your home or office.
**We are not medical professionals. Please consult the CDC website for more information.
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14 Comments
Laurie Oestreicher
Please specify the % alcohol needed to be effective, it should be 90%!
I made mine last week, similar recipe…2/3 cup 90% alcohol and 1/3 cup aloe gel.
But! The alcohol percent should be 90 😘
Two Southern Sweeties
Thank you so much for your comment.
*****Per the CDC website. The CDC recommends a hand sanitizer with 60% alcohol or above.
Beth
Can I use aloe juice
Two Southern Sweeties
I think that would be too liquidy. To be honest, I don’t know much about aloe juice so I just don’t know.
Nancy
We’ve only been able to find a jug of food grade aloe vera and alcohol with wintergreen and glycerine and 70% think this would work?
Two Southern Sweeties
Good morning Nancy. Honestly, I don’t know enough of the the items you have found to give you an answer. I will do a bit of research and see what I can find.
Melissa
Does the bath & body works hand sanitizers work just as good as making my own?? I believe they are 62% alcohol.
Two Southern Sweeties
According to what I have read on the CDC website, they recommend above 60%, so I would think the Bath and Body Works would work just fine.
Kyra Rodriguez
Alcohols and hand sanitizers are all sold out in most of the stores in our city too! 🙁
Crystals&cards
All I cld get was Everclear grain alcohol & solorcaine Aloe gel. It has lidocaine n it to relieve sunburn. I’m afraid the lidocaine will affect the alcohol some how. Will it work. Thank you
Two Southern Sweeties
I’m sorry, I honestly do not know the answer.
Luis Vilanova
Hand sanitizer is definitely in great demand these days. I like your post and especially the part where you suggest mixing aloe and essential oils to the mix. This has proven a real winner at home when we add a few drops of tea tree oil!
Two Southern Sweeties
The aloe and oils really help a lot.
Even though we are able to purchase hand sanitizer again where we live, I still prefer using this one. The others are just so drying when you have to use them really often.
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