How to make a home antiseptic for hands

Necessary materials

In order to make a home antiseptic, you will need:

• a small glass bottle (for 110 g of liquid. The fact is that some essential oils can eat plastic; of course, it is not an acid or something toxic that can literally dissolve a plastic bottle through, the changes will be invisible, but a little dissolved plastic will add to the mixture, which will negatively affect its properties. The best way out in such situations is a glass container. The bottle can be chosen of two types - the most common, the liquid from which immediately put on your hands, just turning the bottle, and with a dispenser-distributor, so that the antiseptic can be applied as a spray. The first method is traditional, but the second one will allow processing not only hands, but also other surfaces (desktop, for example), with greater ease. A glass vial with a dispenser-spray is not very easy to find, but in shops for a hobby it should be; in extreme cases, buy the bottle itself and a diameter-appropriate dispenser separately.


• witch hazel (in solution);


• 2 teaspoons of liquid coconut oil (itsextract) or oil with vitamin E (if desired, this item can be deleted.) Coconut oil does not purify the skin, but it moistens it, which, in general, can be important).


• 25 drops of antibacterial essential oil OnGuard (or balm oil, or lime);


• 10 drops of lemon essential oil.

Step-by-step instruction

1. Fill the bottle for the antiseptic with water to half.


2. Pour into it coconut oil or vitamin E.







3. Shake the mixture.


4. Add essential oils and witch hazel.


5. Shake as much as possible.

That's all - antispeptic is ready. But before each use, it will be necessary to shake it a couple of times, so as to ensure that the release of essential oils and their separation from water are avoided.

In general, the recipe is quite simple, but effective. "OnGuard" is an antibacterial ethereal mixture sold in hobby shops and is known for its marked influence on microbes. Lemon is added for a similar reason - it is appreciated not only as a pleasant addition to tea or an ingredient in baking, but also as a protection and prevention of diseases.

Witch hazel has been used for several hundred years alreadyas a medical disinfectant and cleanser (bandages with ointment from it were very popular in the 19 and 20 century), but in addition, its solution has a low percentage of alcohol. Most disinfectants contain at least 60% alcohol! For young children, they are not suitable, and not all adults like the smell of alcohol, and its effect on the skin - as is known, alcohol solutions drastically dry it.

In some solutions or ointments with witch hazeladded aloe vera extract. From the point of view of disinfection, this is only a plus. Aloe vera is a succulent plant with fleshy leaves, a loving sun and stony soils, and the juice of these leaves is widely used in medicine and cosmetics since the ancient era as a way to moisturize and nourish the skin (among other things, it contains B vitamins and carotene) and a remedy for the prevention of a variety of diseases). But in the aloe vera juice, too, there are essential oils, and using a solution with its impurity will make the whole mixture more dense. If you want an antiseptic spray, problems can arise with it - a thicker liquid simply will not be well sprayed through the dispenser.

In this case, do not add coconut oil, nor vitamin E.

Theoretically, vitamin E can prolong the termof the shelf life of your antiseptic, because it is a good natural preservative, and, therefore, in this case it is better to make a slightly smaller amount of the mixture - so that it does not have time to deteriorate.