How To Extract Alcohol From Hand Sanitizer

The alcohol used in hand sanitizers is denatured it has additives meant to make someone sick if they drink enough of it.

How to extract alcohol from hand sanitizer. Hand sanitizers may only have 60 alcohol the other part is water along with the gelling agent. A typical 240 ml container of hand sanitizer gel contains about the same amount of alcohol as five shots of hard liquor. Also not all sanitizers have ethyl alcohol some have isopropyl.

91 to 99 strength is preferred. With your spoon begin stirring the jelly and slowly adding your salt. Agree with re design distilling is the easiest way to get the alcohol.

And in some sanitizers not all the alcohol is of the drinking variety. Filter this salt and hand sanitizer mixture in to your second container. If the alcohol is ethyl it will distill as 95 ethyl alcohol leaving the salt and gel behind.

I m going to show you how to make your own hand sanitizer using mouthwash and aloe vera gel. We will use a still to extract distill the alcohol from mouthwash and then use it to make great and. You re going to want to add salt until the jelly melts and turns in to a liquid.

Rubbing alcohol aka isopropyl alcohol. Pour pump the hand sanitizer in one of your empty containers. It may be a slow process but the alcohol will filter through leaving behind all the extra gunk.

You can also use 70 alcohol if that is all you have though you won t be able to use as much aloe vera in the recipe in order to keep the alcohol content up to 60 as desired. This might be the reason it doesn t burn well. Homemade hand sanitizer recipe supplies ingredients needed.