"Preparation of Copper/Aloe Vera-Based Hand Sanitizer: A Mini Overview"

Abstract

New hand sanitizer designs with eco-friendly components such as aloe vera and copper can allow pharmaceutical companies to bring enhanced applications onto the market while demonstrating simple and inexpensive preparations associated with improved microbial effectiveness. Alcoholic or non-alcoholic hand rubs are distinctively major classes of hand sanitizer platforms that can be prepared into hydrogels to address solutions for improved formulations. The innovative-utility of these hydrogels seems to be limited only by their ingredients and thus novel materials like copper or aloe vera can lead to optimization of anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties of sanitizers, and therefore a diversified product that may aid further research related to high demands of safe and sustainable materials to combat the current pandemic of COVID-19. The customized designs of starch or cellulosic hydrogels may ensure the diversity and right quality of incorporating these components needed for biocidal activity against microbes in the suggested hand sanitizers. Furthermore, the discussed sanitizer of copper and aloe vera combined in starch or cellulosic hydrogels are believed to exert enhanced texture, tone, and elasticity upon topical application due to their properties that may delve into the enzymatic activities required for less prevalence of skin lesions commonly known in traditional hand sanitizers.