Saturday, October 16, 2010

Making Your Own Homemade Hand Sanitizer

Cold and flu season is in full swing and run around all over the place with H1N1, with a few extra precautions taken to keep the germs at bay is never a bad thing. I'm not saying that you and your children hand sanitizer in the bathroom every few minutes. Wash hands with soap and water is still the best way to get rid of germs. But after a trip where you come in contact with lots of germs (such as the supermarket, the petrol station, public toilets), is to kill a good ideasome of these foreign aggressor, if you do not have access to a sink and soap. And if you have a child of 11 months of age to sit in the cart, highlights the development in much of the car in the mouth as possible, how to use a small piece of mind that your daughter is not to break out into hives from all germs at all times.

There are many, many hand disinfection products on the market, but I discovered that you can make your own hand sanitizer for a fraction of the cost. MostThe products you buy with a set of alcohol-based but has continued as the Green Wave, the more natural products with essential oils found their way onto the market. If you choose a product containing alcohol, make sure it has an alcohol concentration of at least 60 percent, so that it can kill most bacteria and viruses. Check the labels on disinfectants hand so you know, I actually always done the job and not just spreading the bacteria around.

Essential oils areused for thousands of years to combat the disease, and may already have all the oils at home that are needed to make your own hand sanitizer. With essential oils with disinfectant properties, antiseptic and antiviral allows you to create a hand sanitizer in the house without alcohol. Cedarwood, lavender, lemon, lemongrass, myrrh, neroli, patchouli, mint, rose, sandalwood, tea tree, thyme and ylang-ylang essential oils have antiseptic properties. Cloves, and niaoulipine oils, both properties disinfectants and antiseptics.

Tea tree oil is the most powerful of these preservatives, but it should not be used by children or pregnant / lactating women. The addition of more than tea tree oil for each recipe, hand sanitizer effective, but the smell is overwhelming. A few drops of essential oils such as basil, rosemary, rose, lavender, geranium or lemon flavor is bright and balanced.

Always be careful with essential oils and botanicalfirst, if you have any current health conditions. As already mentioned, some oils (like tea tree, cedar wood and hyssop) Not suitable for children or pregnant women and lactating mothers.

The following recipes you can mix oils that suit the taste or just a kind of oil. An essential oil blend that is safe option for families, a combination of lavender and pine. This is a disinfectant, antiseptic hand sanitizer to improve with some soothing effects.Add citrus or rosemary, and to createcomplement the flavor.

Aloe Vera Gel is an ingredient in all these recipes, and I wanted to mention that these pure Aloe Vera Gel is without color, taste, and so on. It is not the same juice. It should be "100% Aloe Vera Gel" somewhere on the bottle. Otherwise, it's the wrong stuff.

If you have a problem with these ingredients in your local shops looking to online sources. I will send you a few pages myself.

So here is the hand-made homeDisinfectant recipes with and without alcohol. Mix up a batch of hand sanitizer will only take a few minutes, but it is often the question of what you have in the house. You probably want to make the mixture into a glass bowl (plastic can take the aroma of essential oils and metal can react with the ingredients), but you can also only the ingredients directly into a bottle, if you prefer. However, a funnel will be helpful. Add ingredients to the mixNave, shake or stir to combine. Fill the mixture in hand sanitizer and other small bottles to keep you out of those landfills have washed empty. Some recipes may need to spread more liquid to be shaken before use of oils.

Alcohol Free Hand Sanitizer Gel
1 cup pure aloe vera gel 1-2 teaspoons of witch hazel (add to desired consistency) 8 drops of essential oil usually without alcohol gel hand sanitizer
2 cups of pure aloe vera gel 2 tablespoons SD40 alcohol 90%(Fragrances, especially if you can do) 2-3 teaspoons of essential oil-based hand sanitizer alcohol
1 / 4 cup pure Aloe Vera Gel 1 / 4 cup of alcohol or vodka 10 drops of essential oils

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