Don’t add essential oils to your hand sanitizer unless you plan on testing the resulting formulation in a lab for safety, stability, and efficacy. The same goes for making your own hand sanitizer which comes with many of its own problems and concerns.

DIY HAND SANITIZER

• 3/4 cup isopropyl alcohol (91 or 99 per cent)
• 1/4 cup aloe vera gel.
• 2 drops Tea Tree Essential Oil.
• 2 drops Lavender Essential Oil.
• 2 drops Lemon Essential Oil.

A third ingredient, essential oils, will help tame the alcohol-forward smell. Use a few drops of lavender or a citrus scent. When you use the hand sanitizer, you’ll smell that oil after the alcohol evaporates.

How to Make Hand Sanitizer Spray

1. step 1: start with a 2 ounce spray bottle.
2. step 2: add 1/2 teaspoon carrier oil such as, fractionated coconut oil, sweet almond oil, or jojoba oil.
3. step 4: add 10-12 drops of essential oil (see below for suggested essential oil combinations)
4. step 4: add 2-3 drops vitamin e.

Add 8 to 10 drops of your favorite essential oil. You can use any scent you’d like, but the following scents have antimicrobial properties: cinnamon, clove, eucalyptus, lavender, peppermint, rosemary, thyme, or thieves.

Use a few drops of lavender or a citrus scent. When you use the hand sanitizer, you’ll smell that oil after the alcohol evaporates.

You can use any scent you’d like, but the following scents have antimicrobial properties: cinnamon, clove, eucalyptus, lavender, peppermint, rosemary, thyme, or thieves. Stir the ingredients together using a spatula until everything is smooth. There should be no lumps or clumps.

Look for bottles labeled isopropyl alcohol, also called rubbing alcohol. note: rubbing alcohol is also sold at a 70% concentration, but don’t use that one. You want the final hand sanitizer to be at least 60% alcohol.

Homemade Hand Sanitizer with Thieves Oil

1. ⅓ cup pure witch hazel.
2. ⅔ cup 100% pure aloe vera gel.
3. 15 drops Thieves essential oil blend or (5 drops of Clove Essential Oil, 4 drops of Lemon Essential Oil, 3 drops of Cinnamon Essential Oil, 2 drops of Eucalyptus Essential Oil, 1 drop of Rosemary Essential Oil)

Adding essential oil to hand sanitizer are not necessary but they do other a way to have a lovely scent. If you don’t like the smell of hand sanitizer you add essential oils like lemon or lavender. Clove and tea tree oil (one of my favorite) are great essential oil that have antimicrobial properties.

It also has incredibly healing properties that speed up wound healing. In this essential oil hand sanitizer recipe, aloe vera gel acts as the base or carrier ingredient for the essential oils. It also has astringent properties and cleansing effects that remove dirt, excess oils and grime from skin.

This makes fragrance-filled hand sanitizers downright dangerous for your health and definitely not something you want to use for your kids and yourself. Learn how to make your own essential oil hand sanitizer that is safe for you to be applying on you and your kids’ hands every time you need them clean.

Fragrance is listed as one ingredient but it’s actually a term used for a host of synthetic chemicals and toxins! These chemicals have been linked to allergies, ADHD, infertility and more. This makes fragrance-filled hand sanitizers downright dangerous for your health and definitely not something you want to use for your kids and yourself.

Store-bought hand sanitizers often smell weird and artificial – because they’re full of synthetic fragrance! Fragrance is listed as one ingredient but it’s actually a term used for a host of synthetic chemicals and toxins! These chemicals have been linked to allergies, ADHD, infertility and more.