Adding Aloe Vera to Alcohol Hand Sanitizer Gel

You can add Aloe Vera to your 75% alcohol hand sanitizer gel to provide moisturizing and skin-conditioning benefits. Based on the available ingredients, Aloe Vera Extract (extraction ratio 10:1 FullAssay™) is the most suitable option for adding to an existing formula.

• Recommended Usage: Start with a low concentration, such as 1-2%.
• Mixing: Aloe Vera Extract is water-soluble. You would typically add it to the water phase of your formulation. In your existing gel, you would carefully incorporate it into the finished gel.
• Important Consideration: Aloe Vera Extract is an electrolyte and can potentially reduce the viscosity or even liquefy some gel formulations, especially those with high alcohol content. It is crucial to test the stability and viscosity of your final product when adding Aloe Vera Extract. You may need to adjust the amount of your gelling agent slightly to maintain the desired gel consistency.
• Note: Products like Aloe Vera Gel (Heavy) and Aloe Vera Gel (Lite) are pre-made gel bases themselves and are not designed to be added as ingredients to another gel formula. Adding these could destabilize your existing high-alcohol gel.

Creating a Mousse Texture Hand Sanitizer

To achieve a mousse texture instead of a gel, you would need to change your formulation approach from using a gelling agent to using a foaming agent suitable for high alcohol concentrations. You would also need to dispense the product using a foaming pump bottle.

• Suitable Foaming Agent: Foamol™ (Foaming Agent for Alcohol Base) is specifically designed for use in formulas with high alcohol content where traditional surfactants may not foam effectively. It also provides conditioning properties.
• Formulation Change: Instead of thickening your alcohol-water mixture into a gel, you would add Foamol™ to create a liquid solution that generates foam when pumped.
• Recommended Usage: The recommended usage rate for Foamol™ is 1-4%. You would need to experiment within this range to find the desired foaming level.
• Dispensing: A special foaming pump bottle is essential to create the mousse texture from the liquid formula containing the foaming agent.

In summary, for adding Aloe Vera to your current gel, use the Aloe Vera Extract cautiously. For a mousse texture, you would need a different formulation using a foaming agent like Foamol™ and a foaming pump.