Make Your Own Hand Sanitizer 

Congratulations. You are one of the very few "How to make your own hand sanitizer" videos on RU-vid that understands the ratios needed to get a minimum of 60% alcohol.

Thank you for explaining the maths on how to get the percentage right and making the mixture effective.

5:00 minutes in and she’s just now getting to the point. Ingredients: 2/3 cup alcohol 1/3 cup glycerin A drop of your favorite EO Your welcome

Thank you for publishing an EFFECTIVE recipe! Yay science and common sense!

Thank you for putting this up. Hand Sanitizer is disappearing fast off the shelves even without people hoarding.

Thanks. This information is very useful. I only have a little bit of the Carex hand sanitiser left that I bought a year ago. It came in a small 50ml bottle. I have been experimenting using Vodka, Aloe Vera Gel and Essential Oils. The results I have got are pretty good because the product is not as destructive on your hands as normal sanitiser but I suspect it is because of the much lower alcohol content. I don't believe the alcohol is strong enough as it is 37.5%. The only thing I have that is stronger is Bundaberg OP rum which is 57.7% so comes close but is still not enough. Then finally I do have a small 30ml bottle of Isopropyl (Rubbing Alcohol) which is 99.9%. I had been using this to clean electrical contacts inside a TV. If you don't want to do maths I am guessing that getting a 60 or 70% bottle of this would be the best option. The only question I have for you is do you know of what we can use to dye the resulting product and turn it e.g. blue or pink to give to family and friends?

Thank you for sharing.. I love DIY products. I finally made my own hand sanitizer. It was very difficult finding rubbing Alcohol in the stores. I had to travel to five store in order to be able to find a bottle which was only 70% Alcohol. I made my hand sanitizer with vitamin C oil it really does add moisture to the solution set up pretty well. Stay safe you all..

I made some with aloe Vera gel and alcohol, but I’m glad you used glycerine. I like the feel of that better with rose essential oil. I’m gonna try that. I already use that to clean my rubber stamps and it works great without drying out the rubber. Thanks!

There is a lot of crap on youtube on this subject, this was a good, clear and correct explanation. Nicely done.

This video is great! Many sources who give the makeup of how to make sanitizer like this, they don't mention about dilution percentage of the alcohol. Some sources mention about 60 percent but they don't tell you that mixing 90 percent alcohol will dilute down to 60 percent after mixing the ingredients. Thank you.

so the measurements start at 3:31

Or just spray alcohol on and once its dry follow up with lotion.

Thank you this is important information because we live in a society where we are always on the go and sometimes there is no access as to where we can wash our hands.

Thanks for the video, but please please please turn that noise off when you’re talking.

Oh now I understand why algebra was important during high school and college.

I made my own hand soap with regular natural body wash and i put a tiny bit of isopropyl alcohol and it came out thicker and worked nicely i made this 2 weeks ago

What I love most about your video is that you sing Def Leopard while washing your hands. Thank you.

Thank you as a delivery driver being sent out everyday without anything to protect myself, thank you !

I heard according to hospital recommendations, they use 70 percent at least for it to be effective against bacteria.

Thanks for clarifying how you got the 60%! Everyone else is say use an alcohol in the 90s range but never state why until you did!!!

Great info, unfortunately you cant find any rubbing alcohol on the shelves! Soap and water still works!

May the Lecturer's be blessed this is fantastic tutorials thanks

after all these millions of years thank God YOU have the answer to life's problems

Now we need a video on how to make the damn alcohol. Eye roll.

Just did this homemade hand sanitizer the other day. I used aloe vera gel straight from my aloe vera plant.

Dial soap is also good

3 minutes 39 seconds into the video she finally begins showing you how to mix up the hand sanitizers.

These supplies are IMPOSSIBLE to find anywhere =((

No rubbing alcohol available. I resorted to some cheap 90 proof Whiskey 🥃...Thanks for the video, learned something new everyday 👍

For each cup of 70% alcohol, you're limited to a total of 2 1/3 tbsp. (7 teaspoons) of other additives.

Maybe I'll be able to find these ingredients after people stop buying massive amounts. Possibly after the coronavirus epidemic.

Pour some sugar on me! Ahhhhhh love the 80's! Good video and thank you 👍🏻~John

All alcohol here has sold out here, it would be helpful to go back basics and show people how to distil a cheap vodka into a high enough concentration and then add the gelling agent.

Try finding these products these days... Glad I'm a prepper..

Wow !!that's why aloevera is considered as miracle plant!!wonderful!!

I made my own Hand Sanitizer from scratch yesterday. I took a leaf off of my Aloe Vera plant chopped it up & did a 66% alcohol/Aloe Vera mix with a slash of lemon juice.

Bro damn - really took your time getting to the point

CDC recommends using ABHR with greater than 60% ethanol or 70% isopropanol in healthcare settings. Unless hands are visibly soiled, an alcohol-based hand rub is preferred over soap and water in most clinical situations due to evidence of better compliance compared to soap and water. Hand rubs are generally less irritating to hands and are effective in the absence of a sink. [3]

I love it when the ingredients to make aloe Vera gel are sold out

I found Johnsons shea and cocoa butter gel at Dollar Store. Thank God I had alcohol. I mixed it all up in a ziploc gallon bag. cut off a corner and then squeezed into bottles. great video thanks.

If I want to to make a thicker solution, not a spray, can I use more aloe than recommended? Or will doing that dilute the alcohol potency?

Can someone please tell me how to make sanitizer with the aloe vera leaf??

Fortunately/unfortunately I’m an essential worker and still cannot get my hands on hand sanitizer! I finally found aloe Vera today and just realized it’s 97.7% pure with added ingredients. Still cannot find alcohol.... IM JUST WANDERING WHAT /WHY ARE ALL THESE PEOPLE SAFE AT HOME DOING WITH ALL OF THE SANITIZER THEY HOARDED? WHY DO YOU NEED HAND SANITIZER QUARANTINED IN THE HOUSE?! WHAT WAS THE NEED 🤬 even my employers supply was cut off this crap is ridiculous

I carry my water container with its faucet and liquid soap in the trunk of my car, so every time I go to the grocery store, I wash my hands on the parking lot.

She reminds me of my 10th grade English teacher.....a hippie out of Berkeley Ca. She loved to talk and I loved to sleep

Or just put rubbing alcohol in a spritz bottle.

thank you for a humour filled presentation.

If this is for real...thank you soooo much. So simple to make and I have all these ingredients.. Unbelievable!!! Cant find hand sanitizer anywhere 🤧🤧😭😭

I have made some sanitiser with glycerol and I find that it leaves you with hands that feel sticky ,now I am going to try aloe vera failing that working I will use rubbing alcohol neat (70%)with a colourant and essential oil

This video took so long to get to the point that I just distilled some alcohol to wash my hands in

Will this oxidise to acetone after sometime or loose its effectiveness?

Please list the recipe for the sanitizer. Thank you.

You used dry measuring cups for liquid ingredients. There's a difference between dry and liquid measuring cups. Use liquid measure cups instead to get the best results.

Everything is sold out, I’ll just sanitize my hands with bleach.

"pour some sugar on me" 🤣

Put a wash cloth saturated with soapy water into a zip loc bag. Put the bag in your pocket. Use as needed.

That's great but the alcohol shelf of the supermarket is microscopic in comparison to the also empty hand sanitizer aisle. And why not just keep it as 91%

Hey! Where did you get that purell!!!???

Lol the plot twist to this video is that both the alcohol and all aloe vera has been sold out for as long as the hand sanitizer. whoops.

Dr oz says the palms and fingers are more important than the back of hands.

These videos about homemade hand sanitizers are more numerous than the coronavirus cases in the world.

Best tutorial so far. Thank you!

What if we just spray alcohol on to doorknobs ...I mean it still kills it 🤷‍♀️

I heard it’s not safe to make your own sanitizer I’m not saying I agree but it said that if you don’t add the proper amounts it’s not safe .

okay cool. Now what do you do if you can't find any rubbing alcohol anywhere you go?

Regular salt and water is the most effective most cheapest sanitizer.Shukran

nice video! but it's better to add a bit higher alcohol say 70% to make sure it will work for the viruses, cuz the alcohol is very easy to evaporate...

Isopropyl alcohol 2/3 cup Glycerin gel 1/3 cup Stir mix it all together Can I add some lemon or orange? Thank you in advance take care

Thanks for the great video, Question - have have 99+ Isopropyl Alcohol - is the 2 / 1 ratio you have here still good?

Great idea 'in theory'. However, can you advise the location of any store that isn't out of stock of any percentage of alcohol or Aloe Vera? Looking for some sound back-up plans. Would simply washing hands with soap and hot water do?

This is timely and essential. I make own formula also. In my area, a commercial Distillery has diverted its operation to help increase the availability to us All. Glycerin ? Hadn’t remembered that. 2/3 Alcohol. To 1/3. Cup glycerin. ✅. Thanks dear lady for your info...😍❣️

I have been in the business of new product development for over 20 years, and one thing I wish is that people would stop circulating or sending me DIY hand sanitizer formulations to “check over.” Not one of them has passed my basic standard of requirement. Here are some basics required to make an effective sanitizer: 1. Improved contact time for alcohol to work and ideal concentration for mitigation. a. Alcohol requires contact time, depending on the microbe minimum required contact time of 1 minute may need to be achieved. We know that even simple microbes require time to get the alcohol inside to denature the protein within studies show 20 seconds when blended with other known antimicrobial agents like Benzalkonium Chloride (notice I did not say tea tree essential oil). b. Ethyl Alcohol is generally preferred and 60-90% is generally considered safe and effective (notice, I did not say 100%). When you start to get over 95% alcohol content studies show that microbes can limit the ability of the alcohol to denature the protein within. I really don’t care why, I’m a chemist and that is biology 2. Do not burden the sanitizer with ingre dients that add a burden. a. Ingredients like Aloe and homemade plant extracts add a microbial burden. If you have amazing proof it doesn't forward it to me. b. Finished products like Aloe Gel that are not properly handled potentially add a microbial burden. 3. Do not make unsubstantiated claims. a. Statements that have not be substantiated with testing such as “kill COVID 19” need to be tested. b. Hand Sanitizer in the US is a drug and requires a Drug Facts Box. These products need to be tested for identity and content. 4. Don’t burn the babies. This is the number one rule of formulations, and I am dead serious about this. Do not, I repeat do not burn the babies. a. Essential oils in uncontrolled % risk harmful skin interactions. b. Essential oils in combination with materials that they do not readily mix with such as alcohol and water create a non-homogeneous solution that can again cause harmful skin interactions. c. Repeated use of ingredients like alcohol dry out the skins’ acid barrier which in turn causes irritation that can actually increase the risk of microbial fiesta (this is my favorite description of infection). So how does a REAL chemist formulate hand sanitizer? We use polymers to help increase contact time and help reduce trans epidermal water loss (TEWL). These polymers are largely synthetic (carbomers, vinyl acrylates, etc.). But you are wanting them to be sustainably sourced natural agents? Sorry, they aren’t. We have tried Guar, and Xanthan but they just don’t go pass the rigors of testing like the synthetic polymers do. I’ve read some DIY blogs saying these polymers are emulsifiers- no they are not. They are rheology modifiers. They have these amazing traits that thicken and create what we call rheology. Yes, they make things thicker but its more complicated than that. In addition to thickening, some of them can lay down a microfilm and improve contact time of the disinfectant used as well as reduce the subjects TEWL. In order for these polymers to work, first we hydrate them and then neutralize them. Most people don’t have the materials at home to mix a polymer for extended periods of time and then use a pH meter to optimize the effect. Yes, there are some rapid polymers (I personally like one by 3V Sigma called Rapid EZ), but most DIYer’s don’t have access to these. In addition to the polymer, sometimes we add a humectant to help draw moisture to the skin or a pleasant fragrance (which we add a solubilizer, so it doesn’t separate over time). Before this magic is released for sale, we run a bunch of testing: 1. Stability to satisfy the FDA’s monograph on hand sanitizer (yes there are rules) 2. Microbial testing and challenge testing against a selection of organisms. 3. Identity and concentration testing on the actives used. 4. Human Repeat Insult Patch Test HRIPT. Verifying that their products do not cause irritation when repeatedly applied to human subjects over time. Next time you see one of those DIY formulations recommending vodka and aloe with some essential oils, think for a minute: 1. Do you really think you are at a minimum of 60% alcohol content when you complete making the formulation? 2. Are you using someone else’s aloe gel that you know nothing about the microbial activity or preservative efficacy on? 3. Are you confident that the essential oils you drop in won’t cause an unintended skin reaction? 4. Do you have a solubilizer to keep this whole thing together? 5. And finally, are you willing to keep this concoction wet on your hands for a minute while it works? Last thing I know someone out there is just itching to ask… But don’t essential oils have antimicrobial properties? I have never found essential oils diluted properly to be skin safe improved a preservative efficacy test. Just like I have never found that adding some red raspberry seed oil to a properly formulated sunscreen added any SPF factor via real testing. Can you believe we follow up these claims with REAL testing? We don’t just look at something and say- it looks great! We generally shy away from confrontation of the EWG, fearmongering, and DIY crowd because its not worth our breath to try to change anyone’s mind. Enjoy your life and let the chemists formulate your products to the best of the science they understand intimately

If you measure the aloe first, then the alcohol will wash out the remaining aloe in the measuring cup.

The alcohol is 91% which is fine but less of it mixed with the aloe should get right consistency

Thanks for a video that was informative and entertaining--we need some giggles right now. Thanks again!

That was simple and wonderful. Thank you so much😊

It’s needed for after you pump gas or get to your car from the grocery store

Many thanks for your video on how to make this sanitizer

nothing is virtually available, not even isopropyl alcohol.

I can't find the 100% pure aloe vera gel. Can I use 92% aloe vera gel instead?

Are you able to use petroleum gel, in place of the glycerin?

actually 60% refers to ethanol the cdc says 70% rubbing alcohol

CDC recommends 60% or greater, but World Health Organization recommends 75% or higher. I would take caution in doing this DYI because there's no mention of how to mitigate the microbes present in the commercially available glycerine. There are microbes that do not respond to alcohol due to their protective outer layer. Please if you are serious about your health, don't DYI this, and have your pharmacist compound this for you to get it right. This DYI will only give false sense of security. CA board of Pharmacy sent out directives to compounding pharmacies with strict guidelines on how to properly manufacture this. Please speak to your local pharmacist.

Is it important for the alcohol to be isopropyl? Would it still work with ethyl?

Cool! Thank you! Loved this diy!!! God bless you.🌼🌼🌼🌷🌷🌷

Thanks I was using a dash of bath soap and vinegar in a spray bottle!

4:31 that ring tho

I wonder is this mixture would work ok in a foaming dispensing bottle? That way it would give you more usages/last longer before needing to refill the bottle. ?

Alcohol as sold out too for quite some time. You could use gin or vodka. : )

Thank you. I have one question. Can I use ethanol instead of isopropyl alcohol? . . Is Ethanol Alcohol Different from Isopropyl Alcohol?

I appreciate this video I just wish it got straight to the point! Thank you for uploading

We are short of alcohol because the suppliers are trying to cover the hospitals demand to have at least the minimum of protection that the workers need it. In there doctors & personnel really, really needs more items besides the alcohol.

Thanks for this info- one thing I can not find is why certain kinds of aloe vera doesn't' seem to work. Seems like only the cheap stuff works with alcohol, but "real" aloe vera makes a gooey clump when you mix with alcohol- anyone know why??

Pour Some Sugar On Me!!! what a great song!!!

Isopropyl alcohol can use for making hand sinitizer

I just used an Aloe Vera Gel that already contained glycerine. Could not find any bottles of glycerine in local stores...

If I have polyethylene glycol 200 what would my ratio be to mix with glycerin?

I used 100% aloe vera and 99% IPA, but my mixture separates after it sits for 24 hours. Is this normal? Any ideas on how to prevent the separation?

I made some with the aloe gel but found after it was properly stirred a while later there appears pieces of aloe floating in my bottle??

And now all the stores are out of alcohol, aloe vera gel and glycerin.