You for sure can make effective and healthy homemade hand sanitizers!

[Dflur]

Before the Corona, before Breast Cancer, I gave weekly classes on health and wellness. Of course, now I’m not so sure how healthy I am! I’m sooo discouraged! My medication is similar to a lot of you, it’s Ibrance & Anastrozole. I started in September 2019.

I will be positive, I have a lot of support and for that I am thankful.

[lynzer]

How?

[Hidden in reply to lynzer]

I used YouTube and also Google. Haven’t made it yet though.

[13plus in reply to lynzer]

A minimum of 60% isopropyl alcohol and rest is aloevera gel. I just read about it the other day but yet to make it. You could add a few drops of an essential oil to it to add smell or help with antiseptic quality.

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I copied from what I posted on a facebook friend's page the other day after she was giving a home recipe she found on youtube to make your own hand sanitizer. My friend has a habit of posting things on Facebook and then they tend out to be a scam or false so I said to her this is what I found re an article about people making their own hand sanitizer due to the virus.

Get your information from the Center for Disease Control, not online.

The reality of trying to make your own hand sanitizer.

"The shortage has spurred people to begin making their own hand sanitizer, using recipes from Twitter, Reddit, Pinterest and countless blogs. But just because these recipes exist doesn't mean you should use them.

Screwing up the formula is easier than you might think. One pharmacist weighed in on

Twitter on the risks of making your own:

Mar 4, 2020

Brooke

I'm a professional compounding pharmacist, and I can make hand sanitizer gel, having learned this art in the 2009 pandemic, and it is VERY DIFFICULT. Getting alcohol to gel is so pissy, but using straight-up liquid versions destroys your skin. Just. Use. Soap.

(I'm thinking its better to carry a small bar of soap and a bottle of water and wash your hands using that than to possibly create something that is not helping you in reality. )

10:20 AM - Mar 4, 2020

The key is to get the right ratio of ingredients. The Centers for Disease Control recommends using a hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol, which store-bought hand sanitizers have. But trying to replicate that on your own can be tricky.

[Dflur in reply to Hidden]

Making a hand sanitizer is not a new thing. There are many commercial hand sanitizers that carry perfumes, and extra chemicals not needed in killing bacteria. Of course , the big companies that sell billions of dollars worth of personal hygiene products don’t want you to make your own products. This goes back to how our grandparents lived, in my mind , cancer is a problem because we buy into popular products, with unnecessary chemicals added all the time. I would hope being part of this community, there would be many of us who feel the same.

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Maybe handmade is good to just make you hands smell nice and a bit cleaner, but with this virus, I think it is probably important to have one that actually disinfects. Cancer has been around for years, but they probably or more than likely, did not have a specific name for it as other diseases.

I have leftover closed bottles from when I was on the Ibrance and they told me to buy it. I wound up never using it so now I have it when there is a real need for it. Even with mets in my lungs and most of us, I am assuming, have comprised immune systems so I just think we need to be extra careful than people in better health. What does being part of this community have to do with whether people agree with either of our opinions or not? We all have cancer and some of us have different thoughts about using supplements and holistic medicine. I am taking my information from listening to the news reports that the CDC puts out, not online articles. People are getting in a frenzy.

They actually showed two women that got into a fist fight about toilet paper bc now people are in a frenzy that we are going to be locked in our homes for a while.

The way I see it, I have advanced cancer, so although I carry the Purell, I am not scared to leave my apt. and use public transportation and go food shopping. My friends without cancer are terrified to even leave their homes.