How to make your own hand sanitizer and cleaning wipes

First, it was face masks. Now it's hand sanitizer. Items that weren't valuable just a couple months ago are now coveted, hoarded, and flying off store shelves.

While public-health experts don't recommend healthy people wear face masks, you can make your own hand sanitizer and cleaning wipes should your local drugstore run dry.

Insider talked to Miryam Wahrman, a biology professor at William Paterson University and the author of "The Hand Book: Surviving in a Germ-Filled World," about exactly how.

All you really need is alcohol, either isopropyl (rubbing) or ethyl (used in beer, wine, and spirits). As long as the solution is at least 60% alcohol, you can rub the liquid into your hands and let them air dry, then you'll have effectively sanitized them.

"The bottom line is that alcohol is the active ingredient" in hand sanitizer, she said. 

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