I am generally not a fan of the conventional, waterless hand sanitizers and anti-bacterial soaps that are so popular right now. They are full of chemicals and IMO they go overboard. Frequent hand washing with soap and water will do the trick usually but hospitals, doctor’s offices, and schools all seem to be taking the lazy path and utilizing waterless hand sanitizers instead. Also, these hand santizers have the equivalent of 124 proof alcohol. That is more alcohol than vodka and 3 ingested squirts could be enough to cause alcohol poisoning. Yikes!
My son had to have two bottles of hand sanitizer to go to school. I had to buy or they would and then charge me. Luckily they accepted Clean Well hand sanitizers which use essential oils from plants to kill bacteria.
There will be times when soap and water isn’t at hand though so I even can see the benefit of hand sanitizers…at least the safe and more natural ones. When I take my kids to the play center at the mall for instance I bring some, also I take some to Chuckie E. Cheeses. This past week with my illness we all used them to see if I could spare my kids getting strep throat…so far so good. We tried a few new products actually from an online store called For My Kids. The On-the-Go Hand Sanitizeris an all natural germ fighter. You just spray, rub, and go. It smells heavenly with a blend of witch hazel, lavender, eucalyptus, and sweet orange essential oils. The spray has antiseptic, antimicrobial, antibacterial, and antifungal properties. They make my hands feel energized and refreshed.
I have also been using their Vinegar of the Four Thieves, which is a centuries old formula that has been used to prevent contagious disease. I had heard of it before but I had never used any or made any of my own. You can use it everywhere you would use disinfectants, like those horrible smelling ones from Clorox.
The For My Kids formula contains a blend of organic ingredients: lavender, peppermint, rosemary, rue, sage, wormwood, camphor, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, garlic, and calamus cold-infused for six weeks in white distilled vinegar. All this week I have been using it to spray doorknobs, the telephone mouthpiece, cutting boards, my son’s highchair, and even our bedroom linens. I think it smells pretty awesome too. My mom picked up my phone to use and asked why it smelled like steak sauce. It does kind of remind me of A1 steak sauce, LOL.
What I liked the most about these products though was that they came in a nice cobalt blue glass bottle. I can use these bottles for a long time to come around the house and no plastic and no waste is a HUGE bonus. They last a long time and they are very affordable in price too.
Safe, natural, and eco friendly…what more could I want?
