Helping Hands: Building Soothing, Protecting, Repair and Care Products January 1, 2021 Contact Author Sarah FitzPatrick and Lorna Radford, Enkos Developments Ltd., Leatherhead, England
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Recently, hand care has experienced an unprecedented boom in consumer demand due to a heightened focus on sanitization and moisturization in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the pressurized market, regulations surrounding the manufacture and distribution of sanitizing products have been temporarily relaxed by governments
1, 2 across the world. Disruptions in supply have led to several non-cosmetic companies, and indeed consumers themselves,
3 trying their hand at sanitizer manufacturing.
Unfortunately, this amplifies risks to the consumer due to the heightened potential for dosage miscalculations or unwanted impurities (such as benzene and gasoline)