How Are the Liquor and Beauty Industries Making Hand Sanitizer? 

Alcohol-based hand sanitizers can kill most bacteria and viruses, putting them at an unprecedentedly high demand as the world comes together to try to contain COVID-19. This has also resulted in unfortunately low supplies as manufacturers struggle to keep up.

From breweries to distilleries to perfumeries, many companies are tapping into their alcohol supply and transforming their plants and production lines in order to make alcohol-based hand sanitizer to help battle the pandemic. In this eBook, we would like to offer our advice and expertise to help you understand …

1. What companies can make hand sanitizer?
   Get details on the new FDA guidelines for the temporary manufacture of sanitizer for the duration of this public health emergency.
2. What ingredients are necessary and how do you get the right mixture?
   Learn about the 4 ingredients necessary for alcohol-based hand sanitizer manufacturing and how to perform a mixture design to ensure you are making them correctly.
3. How do you design and run a mixture design experiment?
   Create different formulations of the 4 key ingredients and measure the alcohol percent.
4. How do you analyze the data and prove you’re meeting FDA guidelines?
   Familiarize yourself with the following steps:
   1. Analyze mixture design
   2. Use Minitab’s response optimizer to identify the best proportions of each ingredient
   3. Visualize the change in behavior over different formulations with a contour plot
   4. Ensure you’re within the proper FDA limits with Minitab’s prediction functionality