If you are choosing to live healthy, you find many ways. Just imagine you are out somewhere and want to sanitize your hands. No access to water and hand wash liquids leaves your hands unhygienic. You unintentionally touch your face with the bacteria and virus filled hands. So, it is always better to carry a sanitizer. You can make your own sanitizer with organic ingredients.
Here are the ways to make the hand sanitizer with easily available things. Using the properties that keep the infections at bay are included in making of the homemade sanitizers. It is not harsh on your skin but only on bacteria and viruses.
Homemade Hand Sanitizers
Make large quantities of hand sanitizer for your whole family. All these sanitizers are to preserve and use without any side effect. The harsh ingredients are balanced with the gentle and natural sources. They are all safe to use for your skin and hygiene.
I would recommend you to use sanitizers often instead of water washing hands. You can save water this way. Your hands don’t dry out, often cleansing with water and soap.
1. Hand sanitizer with dettol
Dettol has helped with hygiene and wellness since ages. The dettol liquid provides protection against bacteria. It keeps you away from infections. Not just making a hand sanitizer with dettol, we suggest you add it bathing water to shower.
Ingredients:
- Aloe vera gel
- Dettol antiseptic
- Vitamin E oil
Steps to do:
1. Choose a small size empty plastic bottle.
2. Fill the bottle aloe vera gel.
3. Then fill the remaining space of the bottle with Dettol.
4. Shake well and then it is ready to use.
2. Hand sanitizer with essential oils
The essential oils contain antibacterial properties which is great for house cleaning as well. The oils smell devine and they are not harmful for your skin. Instead, it is good for your skin to treat with essential oils.
The recipe is a combination that can kill germs and bacteria. You can protect your skin from any infections and allergies caused by various pollutants and harmful agents.
Mixing these natural ingredients with rubbing alcohol is only to enhance the power of sanitizer. The essential oils and aloe vera gel protect your skin while alcohol and isopropyl destroy the bacteria. Every ingredient is important to make a powerful sanitizer. Here is a simple way that you can make use of essential oils to make homemade sanitizer.
Ingredients:
- Isopropyl or rubbing alcohol
- Organic aloe vera gel
- Essential oils- Tea tree oil/ lavender oil
Steps to do:
1. Take an empty bottle and add aloe gel into it.
2. Add the both rubbing alcohol and essential oil.
3. Shake it well to finish the process of making the sanitizer.
4. Then you can use it immediately
3. Hand sanitizer with baking soda and bleach
Bleach is the familiar cleanser in households. It is generally used to clean the floor, objects which help remove the stains and disinfect. Baking soda is another active cleanser with anti-inflammatory properties. As these ingredients are very much available at home, you can make your own hand sanitizer using them.
Ingredients:
- 2-3 Drops Bleach
- 2 Drops Liquid Soap
- 1 Teaspoon Baking soda
Steps to do:
1. Take an empty spray bottle and fill it half with water.
2. Add baking soda and bleach. Shake the bottle well.
3. Then add liquid soap to the water.
4. Shake it again and then it is ready for use.
4. Hand sanitizer with perfume and aloe vera gel
If you have no option of isopropyl alcohol available to make the hand sanitizer, then this is the best recipe. It is easy and effective in killing the germs and bacteria.
You can use the fresh naturally extracted aloe vera gel to make this sanitizer. You can also use the aloe vera gel that is ready made. Aloe vera gel allows you to keep your hands smooth and anti bacterial for a few hours. Make sure you choose a perfume that has high alcohol content.
As you are using vitamin E capsules, it saves your hands from rashes and infections. Vitamin E nourishes your skin in processing of sanitizing your hands.
Ingredients:
- 2 Tablespoons Aloe vera gel
- Alcohol based perfume
- 2 Vitamin E capsules
Steps to do:
1. Transfer the perfume into an empty bottle.
2. Add aloe vera gel to the perfume.
3. Extract vitamin E oil from the capsules and squeeze into the bottle.
4. Shake the bottle well and it is ready to use.
5. Hand sanitizer with surgical spirit
If you can buy a surgical spirit, then it is easy to make the hand sanitizer at home. As the spirit can make your hands rough and causes rashes, you must balance it with the goodness of aloe vera gel. Aloe vera gel is combined with spirit to protect your hands from rashes and harshness.
Make sure you choose a surgical spirit that contains at least 65% of alcohol to kill the bacteria and virus.
Ingredients:
200 ml surgical spirit
2 Tablespoon aloe vera gel
Steps to do:
1. Take an empty dispenser and fill it with surgical spirit.
2. Then add aloe vera gel to it and blend both the ingredients.
3. Give it a shake and the homemade sanitizer is ready to use.
6. Hand sanitizer with witch hazel
When your hand sanitizer is runned out, you can use witch hazel to make your own product. Choose a witch hazel that contains alcohol. In this recipe, we ask you to include witch hazel relieves skin irritation and inflammation.
Tea tree oil is powerful and proved to be antimicrobial and antibacterial. Aloe vera gel is another super effective ingredient that keeps infections away.
Ingredients:
- 1 Cup aloe vera gel
- 1 Tablespoon witch hazel
- 3-4 drops tea tree oil
Steps to do:
1. Take a large contain to make the sanitizer.
2. Pour 1 cup of aloe vera gel into the bowl.
3. Add witch hazel and tea tree oil.
4. Stir the ingredients together finely.
5. Transfer the sanitizer into a spray bottle.
6. Shake it and your hand sanitizer is ready to use.
7. Hand sanitizer with savlon
Savlon is used to heal wounds and it is antiseptic. It washes out the dirt and dust well. It protects the skin from getting infected with bacteria. Here you are asked to include glycerin for the base.
You need to add peppermint oil to eliminate bacteria. It helps you disinfect your skin from harmful bacteria and germs.
Ingredients:
- ½ Cup savlon liquid
- ⅔ Cup Glycerin
- 3-4 Drops peppermint oil
Steps to do:
1. Take an empty bottle and fill half of the bottle with savlon liquid.
2. Then add glycerin into the bottle.
3. Finish the process by adding peppermint oil.
4. Shake it well and then use it.
8. Hand sanitizer with Hydrogen Peroxide
Pick the hydrogen peroxide that is based with 90% alcohol. As it is flammable, we asked you to add glycerin. Glycerin is used as a base for this sanitizer. It is gentle on your skin to use and sanitize your hands. This recipe makes it possible to prepare a hospital grade hand sanitizer.
Ingredients:
- 7 Ounces alcohol
- 10 Ml hydrogen peroxide
- 3 Ml Glycerin
Steps to do:
1. In an empty bottle in the bottle and add all the ingredients.
2. Shake it well and it is ready to use.
Make these hand sanitizers and keep it handy with you. These are great to carry along while travelling, office hours and any time of the day. Now, you can’t even complain that there is a shortage of hand sanitizers as you have great ways to make it at home itself. And the recipes are simple to make and use instantly.
