04-24-2020, 03:45 PM
OK, because I was curious, I looked both of these up, in terms of active ingredients --
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but both are basically quats, chemically similar or identical to benzalkonium chloride, the active ingredient in some non-alcohol based hand sanitizers.
Therefore should be chemically stable in solid or liquid form for quite a long time, and in dilute form, should be fine to use on one's hands (so long as there aren't other ingredients that could be problematic).
I know there was concern here awhile back about whether or not benzalkonium in hand sanitizers is as effective as alcohol-based, and there was at least one publication saying that it wasn't; but another more recent publication has in its data points a comparison of alcohol and benzalkonium on surfaces, and it showed that they were about equally effective -- and possibly more than soapy water.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but both are basically quats, chemically similar or identical to benzalkonium chloride, the active ingredient in some non-alcohol based hand sanitizers.
Therefore should be chemically stable in solid or liquid form for quite a long time, and in dilute form, should be fine to use on one's hands (so long as there aren't other ingredients that could be problematic).
I know there was concern here awhile back about whether or not benzalkonium in hand sanitizers is as effective as alcohol-based, and there was at least one publication saying that it wasn't; but another more recent publication has in its data points a comparison of alcohol and benzalkonium on surfaces, and it showed that they were about equally effective -- and possibly more than soapy water.