Ethanol took a little while to catch on, partly because a study just a few years later showed that ethanol was not effective at killing fungal infections; turns out ethanol is pretty good at killing just about everything else, but that fungal study set it back a bit. In , isopropyl alcohol, a slightly more complex type of alcohol, was shown to be slightly more efficient as an antiseptic than ethanol.
They first developed a product called GOJO Hand Cleaner, which is that industrial orange-smelling stuff you still see in auto repair shops and other places where people get grease on them. It is a cleaner, not a sanitizer, and based with petroleum.
Jerry Lippman patented a few dispensers over the next couple of decades. In , thanks to the oil embargo, the price of the raw materials required by GOJO Hand Cleaner spiked, and the company began looking into other possibilities.
The origin of this claim appears to be a article in The Guardian ; all other mentions of Lupe Hernandez came after that article and provide no other information.
Facts about Lupe Hernandez are nonexistent: no patent under that name was filed, nor was any hand-sanitizer-related patent under any other name for a decade on either side. Thermal Power. Home Team India Blogs History of hand sanitisers, supply chains and something on distilleries. June 11, Agrim Aggarwal. But, who invented hand sanitizers? How are hand sanitizers so popular? Are all sanitizer preparations equally effective? How is effectiveness measured and calculated?
Why were hand sanitizers out of stock then? How are distilleries making the hand sanitizers? We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent.
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It took 13 years for its introduction to mainstream hospitals as surface and hand disinfection to begin. By the 's ethanol alcohol became the preferred antiseptic in hospitals. By the time Lupe Hernandez was a nursing student in Bakersfield, California, it was well established that alcohol killed germs. In , she was concerned about the availability of water and soap for medical professionals to use before coming on contact with patients.
She realized that there might be a solution to carry alcohol in a gel form. This could be an alternative for physicians when there was no access to soap!
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