Homemade hand cleaners you’d want to have

I just read in the Sunday newspaper today that washing hands in public toilets is not such a hot idea. Bummer! Apparently, refillable soap dispensers have lots of germs inside the bottle, as well as the pump section where everybody touches to pump out the soap. According to the article, the hand dryer also has lots of germs in it, and the extremely powerful jet hand dryer is the worse culprit because the powerful gust of air can blow all sorts of awful germs right across the room. The article goes to say, if you need to dry your hands, then, use the disposable paper towels attached to the dispensers on the wall. Much safer, but I can’t say it’s better for the environment, can you?

Anyways, just like the next person, I don’t like germs, but that’s not stopping my little boys from putting all manner of germy stuff into their little mouth.

I have come up with a way to disinfect their hands and surface materials like shopping carts and restaurant tables at a moments notice. I just buy some rubbing alcohol from the pharmacy and pour some into a cheap small travel size non spill spray plastic bottle that I bought from the beauty store. Easy peasy and lightweight too. You can do the same, but do buy the bottle that sprays mists or liquid instead of streams of liquid.

Some people prefer gel type hand sanitizers. I’ve got the perfect homemade, el cheepo but highly effective recipe for that too. Mix equal parts of rubbing alcohol and aloe vera gel (get them from the pharmacy). Mix it all together and store it in old unused pump action liquid soap containers. Travel sized squirt bottles works too. But seriously, that’s it.

Me? I prefer the spray bottle to the gel because I can spray into all corners of any stuff like the shopping cart and not touch it with my hands. Or I just spray some alcohol into a tissue and clean away. Try making it. It’s really simple, easy to carry around and if it’s really true about what the article says, then, you don’t ever have to touch another public toilet tap in your life ever again. You can make bottles of it and keep them all over the place, like in the office, in your bag, in your kitchen, at the garage.

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