How to Make a Gel Hand Sanitizer

Using a hand gel sanitizer has become quite common these days. However, store bought sanitizers can be expensive and often contain harsh chemicals. Learn how to make your own hand gel sanitizer that is more affordable and much safer than what you will buy in the store.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 100% pure aloe vera gel
• Witch hazel
• Tea Tree Oil
• Peppermint Oil

1. To make your own gel hand sanitizer, you will need to purchase a few ingredients. Most of these ingredients are very inexpensive and will allow you to make a great deal of hand gel sanitizer.

2. You will need to purchase 100% pure aloe vera gel, Witch Hazel, Tea Tree essential oil and Peppermint essential oil. All of these ingredients should be high quality and contain to additional additives.

3. Place about 1 cup of your pure aloe vera gel into a bowl.

4. Slowly mix in 1-2 teaspoons of Witch Hazel. You do not want the consistency of the gel to become too thin.

5. Add 3-4 drops of Tea Tree essential oil, and 3-4 drops of Peppermint essential oil. Slowly stir ingredients together.

6. If you find the consistency to be too thin, add more aloe vera gel a teaspoon at a time until you reach your desired consistency.

7. Store in your desired container. Use as you would any other hand sanitizer as necessary.

8. All of the ingredients in this mixture are safe and natural to use on your body. Witch Hazel, Tea Tree Oil and Peppermint all have antiseptic and astringent properties to them, which make them great for killing germs and also healing small cuts and wounds. The aloe vera gel will help soothe skin and keep skin from drying out.

Tips & Warnings

• You can add other scented essential oils to the mixture for a more pleasant scent such as lavender oil or rose oil. If you find the tea tree oil and peppermint oil scent to strong, use lesser amounts.
• Witch Hazel and Tea Tree oil can cause excessive dryness in people with sensitive skin. If you find this occurring, limit the use of your sanitizer to a few times a day.

[rodeomom]

on 11/18/2009 Sounds great! Do you need to keep it in the fridge?

[angelique2009]

on 10/26/2009 I love it too, but I did not use aloe vera gel, too hard to find 100%, I just mixed my witch hazel and essential oils with water and put it in small spray bottles tell the kids to shake before using. They love it, they do not like the sanitizer at school anyway.

[vallain]

on 10/18/2009 This should save everyone a lot of money over buying hand sanitizers. We are all more concerned about germs now.

[mommyhen42]

on 9/1/2009 This is great and I have a couple of Aloe Vera plants in the front yard... Awesome!

[missforty]

on 8/4/2009 Sounds like a good natural method