as concerns around the coronavirus
continues some stories are struggling to
keep up with demand for a hand sanitizer
so some people are trying to make their
own but experts say just don't with
stores saying shelves are empty and
online pharmacies out of stock some
people have resorted to making their own
with recipes popping up all over the
internet but experts like Angela Benton
assistant professor of Epidemiology at
Brown University says don't do it the
CDC recommends that if you're gonna use
a hand sanitizer it needs to be 60%
alcohol based when people are making
hand sanitizers at home there's no way
to verify whether 60% of that is alcohol
base stir brought hand sanitizers will
also often have emollients to counter
the harshness of the alcohol on the skin
but if you don't have that in your
homemade recipe you could risk hurting
your skin or whether there could be
other ingredients in there that might
not be safe for people to use on their
hands she says the solution to not
having any more sanitizer is simple and
probably already in your bathroom that
the best thing that people can do is to
wash their hands with soap and water for
at least 20 seconds so 20 seconds about
how long it takes to sing happy birthday
so while you're washing your hands sing
along