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No, not at all.
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Safety depends on the active. I’m referring to things such as peptides, not SA.
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MurtazaHakim said:Is it wise to use alcohol based sanitizer for surface sanitization ?
Are there any other alternatives which are economically better and equally or more efficient than alcohol based sanitizer when it comes to surface sanitization ?
- It will do a great job of sanitising and it’s also a good solvent so it cleans too, but in my opinion the negative points are many. In particular, it is readily absorbed into the bloodstream by inhalation. It is a considerable fire risk.
I experienced becoming suddenly drunk after dropping a 1-gallon glass dewar of 95% ethanol. Very quickly indeed. -
I checked their Web site. It is not encouraging. They have so far spent TWO YEARS and have a powdered product meant to replace liquid soap. Not exactly impressive, is it? I could have designed that in about 20 minutes.
@lmosca gave you a very complete argument about the practicalities. To which I would add:
1. Do you have a brand name?
2. Do you have a business plan?
3. Have you done any market research? Have you gone out and asked consumers if they would pay 5.5 Euros for a little sachet of surfactant powder? Would YOU?Enough.
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That depends on price. But yes, I have sometimes made special edition items with high %s of peptides and other actives.
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The main things are to use KOH rather than NaOH, and to only use oils or fatty acids that make soluble soap products. For instance, potassium oleate has a solubility of 100mg/mL or 10% in water.
The only soaps that are even moderately soluble at room temperature are potassium laurate, myristate, and oleate, the potassium salt of acids from coconut oil, and the sodium oleate. -
It’s the bentonite. No question.
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Can’t say without testing. Pure ethanol is dangerous to handle. I used to store it in 1 gallon glass bottles but one day I dropped one and created a dangerous situation. Pure alcohol attacks many substances including neoprene rubber, I can tell you that.
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Follow the WHO instructions, but frankly, I am horrified at the idea of totally unqualified people with no knowledge attempting this.
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There is one huge problem for bleach solutions. It gets into your skin and you stink for hours and hours. I don’t see that as acceptable.
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If I am making sanitiser I normally leave 940 to hydrate overnight.
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I’m getting better at this. Lubrizol 940 works perfectly well, I made a batch today using 0.4% carbomer and it was a little thicker than wanted, I suggest 0.35% if using 940. I added 0.1% lavender essential oil to help inhibit microbial spores since I have no H2O2 in stock. End result smelled good and looked slightly hazy.
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Yes. The reason why gel is used is to slow the evaporation of the alcohol and allow effective virus killing.
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A recommendation: Get some Stepan APB (all purpose blend) and try that. Use CAPB for thickening. About 18% of the blend would be about right. Compare the result with what you are trying to do.
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You have a lot of CDEA in there but I see no mention of pH adjustment, what’s the pH?
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Inadequate amount of surfactants.
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If it’s the brown 12% licorice root extract, it is reasonably soluble in water.
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The thing is this. It is going to take me maybe 4 hours of work to explain and draw diagrams and so on. First of all you would need to locate:
100 or 50Kg bags of sugar.
Calgon water softener or equivalent.
Brewers yeast.
Purified water.
25 gallon bins with lids
Syphon or pump sytem.
(the above, for fermentation).
5 or 10 gallon Pressure cooker
A/C heat exchanger
Extract fan
Electric thermometer
Flame free heat source
Engineering work
60 x 1 gallon glass bottles.
(the above, for distillation)
NOTE WELL:
This is dangerous. You can become intoxicated if your setup leaks. You may have an explosion if alcohol vapour escapes during distillation. It may well be illegal. It is necessary to do minimum 3 distillations to avoid the inclusion of dangerous alcohols, eg methyl. This is NOT a project for you, if you lack chemistry/physics qualifications and it DOES need a competent engineer. -
I believe I already sent you a message about that. 1Kg sucrose produces 1Kg ethanol but you must also factor in the cost of energy to run the still. 100 Kg of fermentation in a warm environment produces 10Kg of 97% ethanol every 10 days.
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Mexico.
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Does not comply with WHO or CDC or any other guidelines. The company should be prosecuted for this.
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No.
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Not expressed as proper percentages anyway.
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I’ve got a horrible feeling that sooner or later there will be an awful accident involving people carrying raw alcohol as sanitiser.
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I can tell you how to build a system of fermentation and distillation if you like. 4 x 25 gallon bins produce 10 gallons of 97% ethanol every 10 days. You will need a reasonably competent tech to construct it. No big deal.