Random fact - IPA is not that toxic. If you drink it, your body will happily oxidize it to acetone. Acetone is not that toxic since your body produces it when burning fat. Estimated fatal dose of IPA is 500mL.
> Human data: Ten volunteers exposed for 3 to 5 minutes to 200, 400, or 800 ppm reported mild to moderate irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat at the two higher concentrations [Nelson et al. 1943]. The probable lethal oral dose has been reported to be 190 grams [Gosselin et al. 1984].
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/idlh/67630.html
IPA has a density of 0.786 g/cm3 (20 °C) (per Wikipedia), so that’s 190/0.786 = 242 ml (about 8 oz).
https://www.distilledspirits.org/distillers-responding-to-co... for the list of all of them.
Distilleries in general are not setup to produce the purity of alcohol needed for hand sanitizer. What distilleries do have is licenses to purchase large quantities of alcohol. Most distilleries were purchasing the required alcohol from other sources, producing hand sanitizer in their facility and bottling it.
The supply of the required alcohol has either dried up or prices have gotten to levels making uneconomical for them to continue producing hand sanitizer.
I think the author here might be confusing different quality grades of alcohol with different chemical types of alcohol.
Huh? I thought most of it was made with ethanol?
Just checked a USA Target, and Purell is 70% ethyl alcohol.
The problem with using IPA is that you can easily die if you drink it.