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I don't even know if this is the right subforum. So, I used the hand sanitizer in a public restroom today and now my hands smell like a public restroom, this sickly sweet smell. I have washed my hands twice with hand soap and dish soap and the smell is still there. What else can I try?
We used to have "drip" systems in our commercial washrooms for the urinals, and also the "wall" units (they acted as air fresheners). The vendor came in monthly to refill all the reservoirs, and you could smell him coming from thirty feet away, that stuff just "oozed" out of his pores. My guess is the "hand sanitizer" the OP used might have been mis-filled with this crud. No harm likely, but yeah, I'd be making a lemon juice / salt / baking soda / whatever potion as soon as possible to get that stuff off my hands.
I did an audit once after the vendor was on site (to see if he was actually refilling all the containers), and it took a lot of scrubbing to get rid of that smell afterward, simply from opening the covers. Spoiler - he wasn't, I found a lot of empty and half-filled ones, we dropped that contract and started buying the scented rubber urinal inserts with the vertical "fingers" that break up the stream and prevent splatter, and had Housekeeping replace them as needed (weekly in the heavy-use washrooms, bi-monthly in the others). They provided a superior result, and we also used "Pop Ups" for deodorizers as needed. Building Maintenance is a pain, LOL.
Pickle juice is handy for removing all kinds of lingering odors from your hands if you don't have lemon juice handy. Follow up with a quick wash in soap and water to remove the smell of the pickle juice.
Recently seen sign in a restroom- "My skin has absorbed so much hand sanitizer that when I pee it cleans the toilet!"
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