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A bottle of Purell. Purell is an American brand of hand sanitizer invented in 1988, and introduced to the consumer market in 1997, by GOJO Industries. [1] Its primary component is ethyl alcohol (70% v/v), and is used by wetting one's hands thoroughly with the product, then briskly rubbing one's hands together until dry.
The Equate brand was originally created by L. Perrigo Company in 1986 [11] and was sold to Walmart in 1993. [12] Before its takeover by Walmart, the formerly independent Equate brand sold consumer products at both Target and Walmart at lower prices than those of name brands. Equate is an example of the strength of Walmart's private label store ...
Hand sanitizer (also known as hand antiseptic, hand disinfectant, hand rub, or handrub) is a liquid, gel, or foam used to kill viruses, bacteria, and other microorganisms on the hands. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It can also come in the form of a cream, spray, or wipe. [ 5 ]
A hand sanitizer or hand antiseptic is a non-water-based hand hygiene agent. In the late 1990s and early part of the 21st century, alcohol rub non-water-based hand hygiene agents (also known as alcohol-based hand rubs, antiseptic hand rubs, or hand sanitizers) began to gain popularity.
Equate or equating may refer to: Equate, a brand name of Walmart; Equate (game), board game manufactured by Conceptual Math Media; Equate, a production joint venture in Kuwait between that country's government and Dow Chemical Company; Equating, statistical process of determining comparable scores on different forms of an exam
The Equal brand logo. Equal is an American brand of artificial sweetener containing aspartame, acesulfame potassium, dextrose and maltodextrin.It is marketed as a tabletop sweetener by Merisant, a global corporation which also previously owned the well-known NutraSweet brand when it was a subsidiary of Monsanto and which has headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, Switzerland, Mexico, and Singapore.
Several hand sanitizers do not use alcohol ; several alcohol rubs are not hand sanitizers. 76.66.194.17 08:15, 13 July 2009 (UTC) Support a move to "Hand sanitizer" or perhaps "Hand sanitizing rub". Alcohol rub seems to be just one of several ways of referring to a hand sanitizer.
The product name is derived from the original Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) manufacturing site name of the Avlon Works at Avonmouth near Bristol, UK on the Severn Estuary.