If you're like me, you're choked about not being able to find necessities like bath tissue and hand sanitizer in grocery stores - or even on Amazon - right now.
As a subscriber to B.C. company VSSL's newsletter, I was pleasantly surprised when a tip in this week's edition included "Pro tips for uncertain times."
One of those tips being a very simple recipe for hand sanitizer gel.
The company's founder, Todd Weimer, is a survival expert. He created VSSL a few years back when he had the idea for the ultimate survival kit.
The great thing about his dead-simple recipe is that it's fairly likely you've got the ingredients for it lurking in your medicine cabinet:
To make 1 Cup:
2/3 cup rubbing alcohol
1/3 cup aloe vera gel
"Mix those 2 together, put that into your empty sanitizer bottle and you’re restocked. Feel free to add a few drops of essential oils if you want to level up your home remedy with a more pleasant smell."
That's it.
Of course this isn't the only recipe making the rounds right now. A quick search on YouTube shows a number of other recipes and approaches, as well as ways to make spray-on sanitizer.
Go forth, and even if you don't have sanitizer make sure to wash your hands with soap, often.