While I'm up....
I posted this on Facebook - may as well post it here:
I've been meaning to post this for awhile. As some of you know, we're chemical free, organic, and as natural as possible over here. Yeah, yeah, yeah - just call me a tree-hugger, I know. I've been called worse. Anyway, I ran across this recipe for natural hand sanitizer made from cinnamon oil (with links to the studies to back it up - yippee!), which, it turns out, works as well or better than alcohol/purell, etc. - even killing MRSA, staph, E-coli - without contributing to the "growing problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria" (NYT, link above). The NYT article ref'd a pediatrician in NJ, Dr. Rosen, with the recipe, which dates back to the middle ages. He's got a great blog with lots of useful info., including the preceding one on mindfulness and children.
Anyway, I'm about to digress. In short, his recipe for Thieves (or actually, adapted from YLEO's recipe:
cinnamon bark, clove, lemon, rosemary and eucalyptus oils, few drops of each oil (note: the French study used concentrations of near 10% of the cinnamon) in a small dispenser bottle filled with filtered water and 1 tsp aloe vera gel.
I've been meaning to post this for awhile. As some of you know, we're chemical free, organic, and as natural as possible over here. Yeah, yeah, yeah - just call me a tree-hugger, I know. I've been called worse. Anyway, I ran across this recipe for natural hand sanitizer made from cinnamon oil (with links to the studies to back it up - yippee!), which, it turns out, works as well or better than alcohol/purell, etc. - even killing MRSA, staph, E-coli - without contributing to the "growing problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria" (NYT, link above). The NYT article ref'd a pediatrician in NJ, Dr. Rosen, with the recipe, which dates back to the middle ages. He's got a great blog with lots of useful info., including the preceding one on mindfulness and children.
Anyway, I'm about to digress. In short, his recipe for Thieves (or actually, adapted from YLEO's recipe:
cinnamon bark, clove, lemon, rosemary and eucalyptus oils, few drops of each oil (note: the French study used concentrations of near 10% of the cinnamon) in a small dispenser bottle filled with filtered water and 1 tsp aloe vera gel.
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