Newsflash: Alcohol-based SPRAY HAND SANITIZERS RECALLED

Newsflash: Alcohol-based SPRAY HAND SANITIZERS RECALLED

Good News! 3rd Rock Silver Spray is Alcohol Free!

Stock up with your supply of Silver Infusion Spray and Large-size Refill Today!

Many spray hand sanitizers use an alcohol-based solution to kill germs. The alcohols used are primarily ethyl alcohol (grain alcohol) and methanol (wood alcohol). Other hand sanitizer ingredients, in addition to alcohol, are benzene and acetaldehyde. 

Let’s dig into the science of these chemicals used for hand sanitizers…

  • Ethyl alcohol is food grade and found in alcoholic beverages.
  • Methanol is not food grade — it is toxic (THINK MOONSHINE THAT BLINDS PEROPE FOR INSTANCE) — it is an industrial alcohol used for fuel, solvents, and antifreeze. If a child accidentally swallowed a methanol-containing product such as hand sanitizer the result could be catastrophic. If an adult ingested a methanol-based product as an alternative to the food grade ethyl alcohol it would be just as poisonous. The FDA reports: “Substantial methanol exposure can result in nausea, vomiting, headache, blurred vision, permanent blindness, seizures, coma, permanent damage to the nervous system, or death.”

Due to the toxicity of methanol-based hand sanitizers the FDA has recalled these products to be taken off the store shelves.

If this is not already alarming, the fact is that the use of alcohol also works on bacteria for about 10-15 seconds and dries out your skin. You’d be better off using soap and water but that’s not handy to carry around.

Do you want alcohol in your hand sanitizer?

3rd Rock Essentials silver products are made with food-grade, chelated silver oxide and NO HARMFUL ALCOHOLS.

In fact, we only use chelated silver oxide. This is 32 times more efficacious than colloidal silver and is a safe form of bacteria-destroying silver due to its chelation properties.

Rest at ease knowing 3rd Rock Essentials provides only products that are food grade and edible should they be ingested – never containing alcohols. No harmful fumes, no toxicity, never dries out your skin or endangers your loved ones.

 

 

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