Tips To Prepare Hand Sanitizer At Home

Hand hygiene is crucial to warding off infections and staying healthy. Even when an illness does bog you down, washing your hands is key to preventing the infection from recurring in your own body, as well as minimizing spreading your germs to others.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends washing your hands with running, clean water and soap for 20 seconds for best results. If running water and soap are not available, an alcohol-based hand sanitizer is the next best thing, according to the CDC. Commercial hand sanitizers have been all the rage lately. They are readily available at a wide variety of stores and often conveniently placed in bins at checkout lines so that you add them to your cart without a second thought.

Ingredients

Mixing bowl
Measuring cups and spoons
Medium-size spray bottle
Funnel
Distilled water
Rubbing alcohol
Aloe vera gel
Vitamin E oil
Tea tree essential oil
Cinnamon essential oil
Clove essential oil
Rosemary essential oil
Eucalyptus essential oil

Method

# Add 2 tablespoons of rubbing alcohol in 1 cup of distilled water.

# Add 1 tablespoon of aloe vera gel.

# Add ½ teaspoon of Vitamin E oil.

# Add 10 drops of tea tree oil.

# Add 10 drops of cinnamon oil.

# Add 5 drops each of clove, rosemary and eucalyptus oil.

# Stir the ingredients together.

# Use a funnel to pour the mixture into the spray bottle.

# Tighten the cap and shake the contents.