Tips For Making Your Own Hand Sanitizer

The coronavirus threat has metro stores out of hand sanitizers. We checked with Walmart and Super Target stores and both have been out of the in-demand item for days. However, you can make your own hand sanitizer with ingredients you can still buy in stor

Thursday, March 5th 2020, 10:27 pm

By: Karl Torp

The coronavirus threat has metro stores out of hand sanitizers.

We checked with Walmart and Super Target stores and both have been out of the in-demand item for days.

However, you can make your own hand sanitizer with ingredients you can still buy in stores.

Here’s a safe recipe for hand sanitizer:

2/3 cup 99% rubbing alcohol (isopropyl alcohol)

1/3 cup aloe vera gel.

8-10 drop essential oil, optimal (such as lavender, vanilla, peppermint, grapefruit)

Mix all of the ingredients.

You can add additional drops of vitamin E oil to better protect your hands from the alcohol.

Recipes vary, but the CDC say the most effective hand sanitizer has 60% alcohol.

Karl Torp

Karl Torp is an award-winning journalist who’s been part of the News 9 team since 2012. He co-anchors the 4 p.m., 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts on weekdays. Karl loves telling Oklahoma’s unique stories, and he’s also a huge sports junkie. He loves to think of trades that would help the Oklahoma City Thunder win a World Championship (despite knowing little to nothing about salary caps and luxury taxes).

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