Beginners Guide to HOME-MADE HAND SANITIZER RECIPES

Quick and Easy Recipes to make your Natural Homemade Hand Sanitizer

Introduction

The first case of someone suffering from Covid-19 was reported on November 17, 2019, according to Chinese Government Data. This disease, which began in Wuhan, China has spread to many countries across the globe and paralyzed the economies.

The World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, after over 118,000 cases were reported in 114 countries across the world.

Covid-19 is a respiratory disease discovered in late 2019 in China. Because it is a relatively new disease, scientists are still researching to find its cure. They will continuously be providing further information about this disease until they find its solution.

Some of the common symptoms of Covid-19 include shortness of breath, fever, and cough. These symptoms usually occur about 14 days after exposure to the virus. People who get infected with this virus have mild symptoms that are similar to those of common cold. However, sometimes these symptoms may worsen and transform into pneumonia.

The most common way for people to get Covid-19 is through inhaling the droplets in the air. Most of the infected people sneeze and cough, releasing air and mucus from their respiratory system into the surrounding. If you happen to be around these people when they sneeze, you’ll breathe in the infected air. And within 14 days, you will be showing symptoms of Covid-19.

Are you living in a country with people infected with the Covid-19 virus? Then probably you are grappling with hand sanitizer shortages. Because of the fear that fills citizens when the government announces the first case of Covid-19 in a country, they end up buying things that will keep them safe. And these things include hand sanitizers, tissue papers, baby wipes, and paper towels.

Covid-19 spreads in many ways, including breathing infected air and coming in contact with contaminated surfaces. These surfaces can include door handles, shopping carts, and elevator buttons. The virus gets into your body when you touch your eyes, mouth, and nose.

And doctors have said that washing hands with soap regularly can kill the coronavirus. Scientists also report that the Covid-19 virus has a fatty layer that can get dissolved using soap. So rather than just washing your hands plainly, you can use a hand sanitizer that contains soap ingredients.

Because of this knowledge, people who panicked bought the hand sanitizers in bulk, causing shortages in the local stores in your area. If you’re in this situation, then don’t get worried. There are simple ways in which you can make high-quality hand sanitizers while at home.

This book is going to provide a step-by-step guide on how you can create hand sanitizers that will keep you safe from Covid-19. What is even better, you can make as much quantity as you want using home-based ingredients. Home-made sanitizers save you money that you can use on other urgent projects.

In this ebook, you will learn the benefits of using a home-made hand sanitizer. You will also gain personal hygiene techniques that keep Covid-19 and other germs away from your family. You will learn the appropriate way to scrub your hands that ensures every finger is clean.

Did you know why hand sanitizers are more effective than actually washing hands? Here are some of the benefits of a hand sanitizer over hand washing:

• It requires less time than hand washing.
• It acts fast to kill germs on your hands.
• It is less irritating compared to soap and water.
• It can be beneficial to your skin health.
• It doesn’t encourage bacterial resistance.
• It reduces bacterial counts on the hands.

Using waterless hand sanitizers are easy to use and are more accessible compared to sinks where you can wash your hands. In this ebook, you will learn more about the waterless hand sanitizer, how to make it and more benefits over the washing hands.

Since the Covid-19 virus can stay in a piece of fabric for around 12 hours, you can kill it using regular detergents. You will get some insights about cleaning cloths in this ebook.

This ebook is dedicated to teaching you how to create lotions, foams, and gels from proven recipes. The directions of the recipes are not hard to follow, so you won’t make numerous mistakes when coming up with the gels. You will also learn the proper way to sanitize your hands using lotions that ensure the Covid-19 virus dies.

By the end of this book, you will know how to face the Covid-19 virus. You will familiarize yourself with its characteristics and how to prevent its spread. You’ll be recognizing the techniques needed to create an effective hand sanitizer that you carry around with you.

Are you ready to protect you and your loved ones from the Covid-19 virus? Then let’s learn the recipes for home-made hand sanitizers that you can use to keep the virus at bay!

Chapter 1: The Advantages of Hand Sanitizers that Everyone Needs To Know

Hand sanitizers have become a golden commodity in recent months following the outbreak of Covid-19. People have bought them in bulk to protect themselves and their loved ones from this dreaded virus that has been declared a pandemic. Scientists have said that regularly sanitizing your hands is one of the effective ways to prevent infection of the Covid-19.

Covid-19 spreads through the breathing of infected droplets in the air following a cough or sneeze from a person with the virus. Researchers claim that you can inhale the virus if you’re within 6 feet from where the infected person sneezes or coughs.

Moreover, the Covid-19 virus can spread through touching infected surfaces. These surfaces can include elevator buttons, shopping carts, and door handles. Some scientists claim that the virus can stay on a metal surface for 12 hours before it dies. This time-frame is enough for the virus to infect many people who will spread it to various locations within the day.

The best solution is to sanitize your hands after touching any surface. Hand sanitizing is much more effective compared to washing your hands because you can do it wherever you are and whenever you can. However, washing hands requires you to access a sink with water and soap. These things are not readily accessible wherever you go.

In this chapter, you’re going to learn how to wash your hands properly, how to sanitize your hands with lotion and discover the reasons why hand sanitizing is more effective than hand washing.

Let’s begin.

Washing Your Hands: How to Do It Properly

Respiratory conditions such as Covid-19 spread when droplets of mucus containing the virus get into your body. They can spread through your eyes, nose or throat. The easiest way to get in contact with this virus is through breathing infected air. But you can also get the virus when you touch infected surfaces with your hands. When you later touch your mouth, eyes or nose, you end up introducing the virus into your body.

The simplest way to prevent infection of Covid-19 is through washing your hands regularly with soap and water. If you want to eliminate all the traces of the virus from your hands, here is a step-by-step guide you can follow immediately:

1. Run your hands under clean, running water. Running water ensures that you don’t recontaminate your clean hands using dirt you have washed from hands.

2. Apply enough soap to cover the wet hands. Soap dissolves the fatty layer that most viruses, including Covid-19, have. Soap destroys germs and protects you from potential infections.

3. 3. Scrub every surface of the hands. Scrubbing is where you do the real work. If you mess here, then your efforts will have been in vain. Scrub your fingers, your palms, the back of your hands, under nails and between your fingers. Scrub each part for about 15 seconds.

4. Rinse thoroughly using running water. Ensure to remove dirt and soap from every section of your hand.

5. Dry your hands using a disposable paper towel or a clean piece of cloth.

Some people claim that hand blowers are unhygienic because they suck up air containing bacteria from the washrooms and splatter it on clean hands. This claim is according to a study conducted by Connecticut and Quinnipiac Universities. However, there have been contradicting studies by other scholars, including one conducted by theUniversity of Bradford in conjunction with the Microbiology Department of Dyson Limited.

How long should you wash your hands?

Ideally, you should take 30-60 seconds to wash your hands. You can time yourself or sing the happy birthday song in full, twice while washing your hands. Some health professionals figured out that it takes 1 minute to complete the birthday song twice.

When should you wash your hands?

To prevent Covid-19 infection, you should wash your hands during these times:

• Before and after eating.
• After touching surfaces outside your home, including money.
• After visiting a public place, this can include public transportation, religious centers and the market, including shopping malls and farmer’s markets.
• Immediately after sneezing, blowing your nose or coughing.
• Before and after taking care of a sick person.

There are other general situations when you need to wash your hands too. They include:

• After touching your pet.
• After using the toilet.
• When hands are visibly soiled.
• Before and after having a meal.

Do you need to wash your hands with warm water?

You don’t have to wash your hands with warm water necessarily, even cold water can work. The most important thing is using soap. Soap dissolves the fatty coating of viruses and bacteria, killing them instantly.

Now that you know about handwashing. Let me show you how to do hand sanitizing correctly.

Hand sanitizing with lotions: How to do it properly

A hand sanitizer is a gel of a liquid that reduces germs in your hands. These hand sanitizers contain alcohol-based formulations. The CDC proposes hand sanitizers that contain 60% alcohol; they are useful in destroying germs present on your hands.

Before you learn the correct way of doing hand sanitizing, you need to know the ways not to do it. Here they are:

• Pouring a small amount of the sanitizer on your side, then allowing the air to dry it without rubbing it on thoroughly on your palms.
• You are doing a quick 5-second rub on your hands after pouring the sanitizer.

The effective way to use hand sanitizers involves friction. You must apply the sanitizer thoroughly to loosen the micro-organisms on your hands.

Another mistake that most users make is not applying enough quantity of the sanitizer. You should use a dime-size amount of the sanitizer.

How to sanitize your hands properly

1. Ensure that you don’t have any organic matter on your hands, including dirt and grease. In case you have them, then washing your hands is the best option.
2. Apply a dime-size quantity of the sanitizer on the palm of one hand.
3. Rub your hands together with all the surfaces covered. Interlock your fingers and rub the ones for one side against the other side thoroughly.
4. Rub your nails and fingertips.
5. Rub your hands for around 35 seconds and allow your hands to absorb the contents of the sanitizer and dry thoroughly.
6. Don’t touch anything, including food, until your hands are dry.

That’s it. Applying a hand sanitizer is faster than ordering pizza using your phone. Even better, it begins to kill 99% of the germs immediately, making you safe during your busy days. It can also prevent Covid-19 virus infection.

Hand Washing Vs Lotion: Which is better?

Hand sanitizing is a great way to clean your hands, especially those that contain at least 60% alcohol. They reduce up to 99.99% of microbes present on the surface of your hands, which is enough to prevent illness.

Hand sanitizers can kill most germs, including Covid-19, flu and cold viruses. Sanitizers are appropriate for use during this trying moment when Covid-19 has become a pandemic. Some of the benefits of hand sanitizers are that it kills germs quickly compared to hand washing that may take a minute. You can also carry it to any place, unlike handwashing that requires access to sink, soap and running water.

Hand washing is the most effective way to clean your hands of germs. However, sometimes you may not have access to a sink and running water. It also takes a long time to wash your hands with soap and running water as compared to using a hand sanitizer.

Hand sanitizers came into the health environment as an easy, fast and quick way to clean your hands when the handwashing option is not available. They are good to use in places where you can easily pick up germs such as in pet zoos, a subway or even in hospitals.

The hand lotion is faster than washing hands

Applying gels and scrubbing your hands can take less than a minute, approximately 30-40 seconds. However, hand washing is a thorough process that entails scrubbing every part of your hands for at least 15 seconds. This process translates to at least 1 minute of cleaning your hands.

Hand washing is, therefore, time-consuming but as effective in killing the Covid-19 virus as hand sanitizers.

You can carry hand sanitizers to wherever you go

Accessibility is another reason why hand sanitizers are the better option compared to hand washing when you want to prevent Covid-19 infection. While you may be able to wash your hands regularly while at home, you may not get these services everywhere you go.

You may come into contact with people while in a public space and the fastest way to disinfect your hands will be using a hand sanitizer. After touching surfaces such as shopping baskets, bus seats, elevator buttons and door handles, you should clean your hands immediately using a hand sanitizer.

If you make the home-made sanitizers, then you can carry them in dispenser bottles when you go out. You use them to clean your hands when after touching surfaces in public spaces.