No, no, no!They absolutely are not the same, and if you tried drinking isopropyl alcohol (even watered down as rubbing alcohol), you’d do serious damage to your body.
Ethanol based hand sanitizers became popular during covid due to shortages and I still run into them occasionally. They’re the ones that smell like moonshine … I still advise against drinking them.
I can’t remember which alcohol company bottled/made it, but I had a bottle of sanitizer given to me when none of the stores had any available. It smelled god awful. Like the last dregs of a bottle of everclear after its been sat out for 3 days. I couldn’t give that bottle away to anyone so I just left it in a lobby somewhere.
I’m in fire/EMS and we had some with a smell that is best described as “college drinking party”.
Like the adult professionals we are: we’d trick our coworkers into using it before we walked into someone’s house. We stopped when someone complained we were clearly drinking on the job.
Where did you hear that? I wanted to ask, why do you state something so confidently that is incorrect? Clearly you must know you don’t know.
But I’m being unfair. We are all unknowingly misinformed in some way.
What you’re thinking of is denatured spirits. Generally that means lots of ethanol (i.e. drinking alcohol) and some methanol (wood alcohol, do not drink). I’ve always thought it’s immoral to deter users this way (particularly during prohibition)
One thing I saw somewhere cautioned against the breathalyzer because it’s sensitive to alcohol (as in hand sanitizer alcohol).
Hand sanitizer alcohol and drinking alcohol are the same alcohol…one just has flavor, and the other is mixed with a gel.
Edit: apparently there are different types
No, no, no! They absolutely are not the same, and if you tried drinking isopropyl alcohol (even watered down as rubbing alcohol), you’d do serious damage to your body.
Ethanol based hand sanitizers became popular during covid due to shortages and I still run into them occasionally. They’re the ones that smell like moonshine … I still advise against drinking them.
Solid advice to avoid drinking any alcohol, even the really tasty stuff.
I can’t remember which alcohol company bottled/made it, but I had a bottle of sanitizer given to me when none of the stores had any available. It smelled god awful. Like the last dregs of a bottle of everclear after its been sat out for 3 days. I couldn’t give that bottle away to anyone so I just left it in a lobby somewhere.
I’m in fire/EMS and we had some with a smell that is best described as “college drinking party”.
Like the adult professionals we are: we’d trick our coworkers into using it before we walked into someone’s house. We stopped when someone complained we were clearly drinking on the job.
Weird, mine smells like vanilla
Old Smokey Mountain Moonshine from Tennessee switched to making hand sanitizer for a little while.
Tons of distilleries did. It saved a few of the smaller craft distillers.
I wasn’t aware any hand sanitizer used isopropyl, but apparently some do. Others use ethanol.
Isopropyl is ethanol, with added poison
You’re thinking of denatured alcohol, AKA methylated spirits.
Where did you hear that? I wanted to ask, why do you state something so confidently that is incorrect? Clearly you must know you don’t know.
But I’m being unfair. We are all unknowingly misinformed in some way.
What you’re thinking of is denatured spirits. Generally that means lots of ethanol (i.e. drinking alcohol) and some methanol (wood alcohol, do not drink). I’ve always thought it’s immoral to deter users this way (particularly during prohibition)
Except they’re two different chemicals? Weirdest false statement I’ve seen recently
Isopropanol is to ethanol as propane is to ethane