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I've bought some large containers of hand sanitizer from a local distillery that has changed their production during the pandemic. So now I've got to put the hand sanitizer in some smaller bottles.
I've picked up some small plastic travel bottles with a flip top, and am now wondering - would there be anything in the plastic bottles that could react with the hand sanitizer that would make it less effective? Should I be looking for a certain type of bottle material, or any plastic bottle should be fine?
What's in the sanitizer? Isopropyl alcohol? Check the recycling code on the bottle (PETE, HDPE, etc). Here's some info about plastics and alcohol...scroll down to the second answer.
alcohol will not react with plastic. I would use a #1 plastic because that's what most sanitizer comes in, but you could also use glass if you wanted to.
The main thing to know about using hand sanitizer - you need to keep rubbing in around your hands and fingers, etc. until it completely dries.
I actually was told different directions. My underrating has always been that for SARS-CoV-2, you apply it in sufficient qualities to cover the area and leave it in it's active undisturbed state for the time period specified for viral pathogens and human coronavirus. So if using 75% alcohol, it's applying enough to keep the skin wet for a minimum of 30 seconds followed by natural evaporating without any rubbing. For chlorine bleach it's 10 seconds wet followed by 15 seconds of air drying afterwards which you can wipe off the excess. I know the gel type sanitizers are different because you have to physically rub it around to properly distribute it over the skin but you must still leave it wet and undisturbed before wiping off the excess. How long it sits on your hands really depends on the time requirement of the active ingredient used in that product.
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