During the global epidemic, in addition to the government’s actions, the public’s awareness of protection is stronger than before. Mask wearing and hand washing almost become must-do methods for personal protection. Considering personal health and convenient use, a wash-free hand sanitizer is popular in the market recently. Some of you might be curious about how the hand sanitizer works? Why there’s a recommendation for the public place to apply hand sanitizers?
Keep rolling, this article will uncover one by one for you.
Active ingredients of hand sanitizer
Wash-free anti-bacterial hand sanitizer is mainly suitable for the occasion of inconvenient water washing. Spray it on your hand and rub it repeatedly, then the whole washing is easily done, which is more convenient than any other devices and products. In this case, the safety and effectiveness of the anti-bacterial active ingredients in hand sanitizer are particularly important. More attention will be paid to its sterilization function.
The Final Rules on the Safety and Effectiveness of Consumer Antibacterial Hand Sanitizers issued by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) shows that, the safe and effective active ingredients of hand sanitizer are ethanol (60-95%), isopropanol (70-91.3%), benzalkonium chloride.
That is to say, the main active components of the wash-free anti-bacterial hand sanitizer are alcohol, isopropanol, and benzalkonium chloride which play a significant bacteriostatic role. These three ingredients can volatilize automatically after hand washing, without cleaning by running water.
Therefore, the anti-bacterial hand sanitizer on the market generally adds anti-bacterial active ingredients and some volatile solvents, which can not only inhibit bacteria and kill bacteria, but also achieve the purpose of no washing.
At the same time, glycerin, vegetable oil, lipids, and other skincare ingredients are also added to protect the skin. It can be said that anti-bacterial active ingredients, volatile solvent, skincare ingredients are the essential components of wash-free anti-bacterial hand sanitizer.
At present, most of the washing free hand sanitizers on the market can be divided into two types: bubble and non-bubble.
Most of the non-bubble products are gelatinous, and the active ingredients are mostly ethanol of more than 55%. Some products even contain more than 90% ethanol.
However, it is not to say that the higher the ethanol content is, the better it becomes. Ethanol needs to play its bactericidal role under certain water conditions. If the density is too high, it is not conducive to the penetration of ethanol into the microbial interior and would then affect the bactericidal effect. If the density is too low, it is easy to penetrate, but cannot reach the bactericidal dose. Generally speaking, 65-80% of ethanol has the strongest bactericidal effect. And when the density is lower than 50%, only the basic bacteriostatic effect is available.
Another type is bubble hand sanitizer. The anti-bacterial hand sanitizer is one of the cases, mainly consisting of anti-bacterial active ingredients, surfactants, and other moisturizing and moisturizing ingredients to protect the skin. The main anti-bacterial components of this kind of hand sanitizer are benzalkonium chloride, benzalkonium chloride, and chlorhexidine gluconate.
Product recommendation
Since you have gained the knowledge of the functioning and benefits of hand sanitizer, you might wonder where to find a suitable one. The suggestion is that you could firstly have a try on instant hand sanitizer from Ausmetics.
Besides the general benefits mentioned above, this product contains the following ingredients: Alcohol, Aqua, Glycerin, Centella Asiatica Extract, Aloe barbadensis leaf juice, Triethanolamine, Citric acid, Tocopheryl acetate, Carbone. Most of them are highly effective anti-bacterial active ingredients.
With the certificate of MSDS, Testing Report, ISO 22716, GMP, CE, FDA, etc., Ausmetics always put customers at ease after purchasing their products. Considering Ausmetics, you might now gain a chance to provide the best protection of your public place.