Hand sanitizer is great to have when soap and water aren't available. Before you go stockpiling, learn about if and when hand sanitizer expires.

A Facebook post states hand sanitizer contains the same ingredients as antifreeze and that pets can be harmed by licking sanitizer. This is false.

Alcohol-based hand sanitizer should contain at least 60% ethanol. Learn more about ethanol-based hand sanitizer here.

The CDC recommends using hand sanitizers with at least 60% alcohol, but studies show that other amounts are effective against Coronavirus.

The FDA recommends to avoid certain hand sanitizers that reportedly do not contain enough alcohol to be effective.

FDA says to avoid these 130 hand sanitizer products that may not work, or are toxic Regulators say some of the products contain dangerous levels of methanol, which can lead to blindness ...

How Does Hand Sanitizer Kill Germs? Hand sanitizers are typically alcohol-based rubs containing ethanol or isopropyl alcohol at concentrations between 60 and 95 percent.

Other doctors recommend using at least 90% alcohol to ensure the hand-made sanitizer is strong enough and to avoid any risk of diluting the compound if other ingredients are added, such as aloe vera.

Leaving alcohol-based hand sanitizers in a car may make them less effective, but it won't start a fire in your vehicle. Claims of that are false.

Four people died and nearly a dozen others were poisoned after swallowing alcohol-based hand sanitizer, federal health officials said.

An effective hand sanitizer has at least 60% alcohol content, but some products contain the alcohol substitute benzalkonium chloride, which isn't as good at killing germs.

Enter liquor distilleries. Distilleries are stepping in to help combat the hand sanitizer shortage by using the alcohol in their facilities to create their own alcohol-based solutions.