Distilleries step up to help with sanitizer shortages using WHO recipe

 

Yesterday I heard about Top Shelf distillery in Perth, Ontario making hand sanitizer to help out with the shortage due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I found an article and video about them on the CTV website and when I did a search on YouTube . . . lo and behold I discovered that several other distilleries are stepping up and making sanitizer all over Canada and the USA! Click here to check out all the videos!

If you read my last post about making your own sanitizer but couldn’t find an alcohol strong enough, it appears that distilleries everywhere are ensuring one is not only available but it will already have the other ingredients added in the correct proportions. In two videos I watched, distillery workers said they were trying to match the World Health Organization’s recipe. However, it’s not easy to find some of the ingredients. Top Shelf did their first run with coconut oil instead of glycerine. Litchfield distillery in Connecticut is using aloe. The products they are making are very clean and natural right down to the moisturizing ingredient. They are not adding unnecessary colour or artificial fragrance.

What is truly heartwarming is that these distilleries are focusing on getting the sanitizer into the hands of essential service workers. I haven’t watched all the videos but of the ones I’ve watched they are giving them away for free to high risk individuals. Top Shelf is accepting donations to help continue their production. Possibly there are others needing financial assistance as well. So if you want to help, look around your community and see if any distilleries have joined the cause.

Dairy Distillery in Almonte Ontario is not only making hand sanitizer, they are also making a hard surface cleaner. As reported in The Ottawa Citizen, the distillery plans “to give away the first batch of about 4,000 litres. For now, it’s to be directed toward institutional users like health clinics or the hospital in Almonte, or veterinary operations.”

CBC’s “The National” did a story on Dillon’s Small Batch Distillers in Beamsville, Ontario. The need for this product is so great their phone is “ringing off the hook” and they have received about a thousand emails in a 24 hour period. See the video clip below.

 

 

All I can say is wow! What a wonderful bunch of people! 🍏🇨🇦❤️