Science teacher reveals how you can make a hand sanitiser with just two ingredients in an empty sauce bottle
- Supermarket shelves have been stripped bare of essentials such as sanitiser
- An Australian science teacher is sharing how to make it at home from scratch
- He uses aloe vera gel and methylated spirits to great an alcohol-based product
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A science teacher is sharing how to make hand sanitiser in a sauce bottle as stocks have disappeared off shelves during the coronavirus outbreak.
As the coronavirus outbreak continues, supermarket shelves have been stripped bare of essentials such as hand sanitiser and toilet paper.
Australian science teacher and YouTuber Jacob Strickling has demonstrated how people at home can make their own hand sanitiser in a sauce bottle.
As the coronavirus outbreak continues, supermarket shelves have been stripped bare of essentials such as hand sanitiser (Pictured: : A view of Empty shelves at a supermarket)
‘Now it [the sanitiser] has to be alcoholic based and it needs to be a minimum of 60 per cent,’ he says in the video.
‘The alcohols that I see recommended are like isopropyl and also ethanol, but methylated spirits is actually 95 per cent ethanol.’
‘The alcohol is quite effective against the virus.’
Mr Strickling explains the hand sanitiser needs a gel so the skin is protected from the harsh alcohol, for this he uses aloe vera.
‘Aloe vera will mix with the alcohol and will form a moisture layer gel to protect your skin from the alcohol,’ he said.
To make the homemade hand sanitiser he peels the green skin off the aloe vera plants and puts the clear gel into a blender.
Australian science teacher and YouTuber Jacob Strickling (pictured) has demonstrated how people at home can make their own hand sanitiser in a sauce bottle
A science teacher is sharing how to make hand sanitiser in a sauce bottle as stocks have disappeared off shelves during the coronavirus outbreak
He then blends the gel until it becomes a foamy consistency before mixing in the methylated spirits.
Mr Strickling adds enough so the final mixture has an alcohol content greater than 60 per cent, which is ‘necessary to break down the envelope protein wall of the virus and destroy it’.
The science teacher decides to put his homemade into a left-over barbecue sauce bottle he had already sterilised.
He then showcases the homemade hand sanitiser by rubbing it on his hands: ‘That feels wonderful, that feels very good.’
Mr Strickling explains the hand sanitiser needs a gel so the skin is protected from the harsh alcohol, for this he uses aloe vera
One seller offered a single bottle of hand sanitiser for $120 (pictured), trying to make money from the crisis
‘Now I’ve got my very own virus stopper,’ he says.
Hand sanitiser has disappeared off shelves and was seen being sold on Facebook for up to $200 for one bottle.
Another seller was flogging 200ml bottles of Dettol hand sanitiser, usually $8, for $25 each.
Coles has introduced limits on sales of pasta, flour, uncooked rice, paper towels, paper tissues, toilet paper and hand sanitisters, as its shelves were left bare by panic buyers.
Customers are only allowed two of those items each, with similar restrictions in place in Woolworths and Aldi.