So how about the home made sanitizer?

Recipes that you might have seen floating around Facebook and the sea to Skye Loves Oreo is finding out if it works well, we want to hammer home here.

Nothing is going to replace good old hand washing.

But if you're not prepared to fork over big bucks for a small bottle of hand sanitizer, you can make it at home.

It's in high demand and flying off the shelves and sanitizers are like $100 apiece on Amazon.

I'm like what? 00:00:50.460 --> 00:01:6.900 That's not happening With Corona virus Fear swirling across the country, a pharmacist in Lehigh Acres is stocking up on the product that many are clamoring to get re the pocket size hand sanitizer here for dollar 99. 00:01:6.910 --> 00:01:9.420 That price, unfortunately, isn't comment. 00:01:9.480 --> 00:01:14.010 Online retailers like Amazon or hiking up the price for a bottle of pure L.

This pack of 36 going for $499.

If you can't find it on the shelves and aren't willing to shell out big bucks for a bottle, can a concoction of Talavera essential oils and alcohol do the trick?

We're putting it to the tax.

And so I'm gonna put some of this in my hands like this.

I went ahead and made some of this homemade hand sanitizer with the Tito's vodka and some out little bear.

Jack, A lot of people are using that, but that only has about 40% alcohol in it.

So we're gonna be able to really tell us this, Sally, I'm gonna wipe this all over my hands and we're gonna check him again in the black lights and just see.

And what I want you to notice is, look what it's still on my hands. 00:01:56.670 --> 00:02:3.980 The CDC recommends sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol content any less probably won't get the job done. 00:02:4.000 --> 00:02:8.210 Of course, homemade hand sanitizers aren't the only route to take. 00:02:8.220 --> 00:02:11.000 That's not recommended medically.

But right now I people could be doing anything to just protect themselves.

But the good old soap and water conduce the trick.

Now that pharmacist I spoke to in Lehigh Acres says he does have a limited supply of hand sanitizer right now, and he's on several wait lists for his next shipment.

But again, the best way to stay healthy is to wash your hands correctly with soap and water.

I'm live in the studio.

Claire Love is Oreo NBC, too.